“At least 11 UN employees were detained,” said a special UN envoy for Yemen Hans Grundberg in a statement. At the same time, he strongly condemned the arbitrary stopping of the organization's personnel, as well as breaking into UN offices and taking its property.
According to the media, among the Huti abducted by Huti are employees of the World Food Program (WFP), as well as the United Nations Fund for Children (UNICEF).
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Rebels supported by Iran control large areas of Yemenu, including the capital of Sana. Huti has been regularly attacking commercial vessels in the Red Sea and Israel for nearly two years, declaring that they support Palestinian Hamas.
Israel corresponds to the strokes of the Yemenian rebels. In Thursday's raid he died, among others Prime Minister controlled by Huti government Ahmed al-Rahavi and several ministers of his office. The killing of Rahawi caused a wave of arrests in Yemenu areas controlled by Huti – AFP said.
Leader Huti Abdulmalik Al-Huti announced on Sunday that the group would intensify their attacks on Israel.
Huti previously carried out two series of detention of UN employees: in June 2024 and January 2025, one of the WFP employees died in custody. The rebels accused some humanitarian employees of espionage and action for the US and Israel. The UN rejected these accusations.
Civil war in Yemen
Huti is one of the parties that had been going on since 2014 in Yemen. In the conflict and the reason for the accompanying humanitarian crisis, according to UN estimates – nearly 400,000 people. Yemen is still in conflict and humanitarian crisis on a large scale.
The group also belongs to the mesh supported by Iran of militias, which connects hostility to the USA and Israel. The alliance of these militias is referred to by the authorities in Tehran as a “axis of resistance”, and by Israel as a “axis of terror”. From the beginning of the 21st century, the motto of the Huti movement is the slogan “God is great, death of America, death to Israel, curse to Jews, victory to Islam.”
