Houthis storm UN office in Yemen, taking dozen staffs in custody
(MENAFN) The Houthi movement has taken at least 11 United Nations personnel into custody after raiding UN offices in Yemen’s capital, Sanaa, and the port city of Hodeidah, according to the UN special envoy.
The detentions followed an Israeli airstrike on Thursday that killed Ahmed Ghaleb Nasser al-Rahawi, the Houthis’ prime minister, along with several senior officials. A Yemeni security source indicated that the group also arrested dozens of others in and around Sanaa on suspicions of collaborating with Israel.
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres reported that militants forcibly entered World Food Program facilities, seized UN property, and attempted to break into additional agency offices.
Hans Grundberg, the UN special envoy for Yemen, condemned the arrests, calling them “a new wave of arbitrary detentions of UN personnel” and demanding their release “immediately and unconditionally.” He stressed that “the work of UN personnel is designed and conducted under the principles of neutrality, impartiality, independence, and humanity,” and noted that the detentions undermine their safety, dignity, and ability to perform essential duties.
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