The Iran-backed Houthis raid offices of the United Nations’ food and children’s agencies in Yemen’s capital, detaining at least one UN employee, officials say.
Abeer Etefa, a spokesperson for the World Food Program, tells The Associated Press that security forces raided the agencies’ offices in Houthi-controlled Sanaa this morning.
Also raided were the offices of the United Nations’ children agency, UNICEF, according to a UN official and a Houthi official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they weren’t authorized to brief the media.
Ammar Ammar, a spokesperson for UNICEF, says there is “an ongoing situation” related to their offices in Sanaa, without providing further details.
The UN official says contact with several other WFP and UNICEF staffers was lost and that they were likely also detained.
