The Houthi -backed Houthi raid, food and children’s agencies in Yemen: NPR

CAIRO-Officials said on Sunday that the Houthis, on Sunday, raided food offices and children’s agencies at the United Nations in the capital of Yemen, and detained at least one employee from the United Nations, while the rebels tightened security throughout SANA after the Israeli killing of the Prime Minister and several members of the Council of Ministers.

Apir Eva, a spokeswoman for the World Food Program, told the Associated Press that the security forces raided the agencies of the Houthi -controlled capital on Sunday morning.

ETEFA said: “The World Food Program repeats that the arbitrary detention of humanitarian employees is unacceptable,” ETEFA said.

The raid of UNICEF offices, according to an official at the United Nations and an official in the Houthis, who occurred, provided that his identity was not disclosed because they were not authorized to inform the media.

UNICEF’s spokesperson, Ammar Ammar, said that there is a “continuous situation” related to their offices in SANA, without providing more details.

The United Nations official said that contacts with many World Food and UNICEF employees were lost and that they were likely to be detained.

The raids were the latest in the Houthi long -term campaign against the United Nations and other international organizations operating in rebel areas in Yemen.

They have detained dozens of United Nations employees, as well as people associated with relief groups, civil society and the American embassy that they are now closed in SANA. The United Nations stopped its operations in the Houthi stronghold in Sada, northern Yemen, after the rebels detained eight United Nations employees in January.

At least 5 ministers who were killed in the Israeli strike confirmed

On Sunday, raids came after the killing of the Houthi Prime Minister and many of his government in an Israeli strike on Thursday, in a blow to the rebels supported by Iran who launched attacks on Israel and ships in the Red Sea regarding the Israeli war in the Gaza Strip.

Among the dead were Prime Minister Ahmed Al -Rahwi, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Jamal Amer, Deputy Prime Minister and Local Development Minister Mohamed Al -Midani, Minister of Electricity Ali Saif Hassan, Minister of Tourism Ali Yavi, and Minister of Information Sharavoldine, according to two Houthi officials and families of the victims.

Houthi officials said that the death of the strong deputy minister of Interior, Abdul Majid Al -Maraada.

A Houthi statement said on Saturday, after two days of the strike, they were targeted during a “routine workshop held by the government to evaluate its activities and performance over the past year.” The Houthis said that a funeral for all the dead was scheduled for Monday in Sabine Square in central SANA.

Houthi officials said that the Minister of Defense Mohamed Nasser Al -Atifi survived the attack, while Abdul Karim Al -Houthi, the Minister of Interior and one of the strongest figures in the rebel group, did not attend Thursday’s meeting.

The strike came on Thursday after the Houthis attacked Israel on August 21 through a ballistic missile that its army described as the first cluster bomb launched by the rebels in Israel since 2023. The missile, which pushed the Houthis to Ben Gurion Airport, on an air raid across Central Israel and the heat, to form a mealion.

The Houthis may escalate their attacks on Israel and ships in the Red Sea, after they pledged in July to target commercial ships that concern any company dealing with Israeli ports, regardless of citizenship.

Al -Houthi, the group’s secret leader, said in a televised speech on Sunday: “Our military approach to targeting the Israeli enemy, whether with missiles, drones or maritime blockade, is continuing, fixed and escalating.”