The Yemeni government accused the Houthi militia yesterday of detaining and pillaging 440 trucks of food aid, medicines, medical supplies and fuel for hospitals in the governorates of Al Hudaydah, Ibb and Sana'a, since the arrival of the International Observer Committee in Al Hudaydah, in the west of the country, after the Stockholm Agreement on December 23, 2018 until the end of December 2019.
The Yemeni Ministry of Local Administration said that the Houthi militias looted medical aid for polio and swine flu in a number of governorates and sold them to private hospitals in large amounts, and looted an amount of 600 million riyals belonging to the World Health Organization for polio vaccines in the provinces under its control.
While the Ministry stated that the coup militias prevented 120 UN staff from accessing a warehouse of the World Food Program in Hodeidah, which contains 51,000 tons of aid sufficient for more than three million and 700,000 people for more than eight months, and those stores were bombed, which led to damage A large amount of this aid, as well as the detention of 20 employees of the French Technical Cooperation and Development Agency (ACTED), according to a statement published by the official Yemeni News Agency.
She added that «the militias have also closed the offices of international and international organizations in the governorates of Dali, Dhamar, Ibb and Sana'a, and stormed the stores of the organizations in the governorates of Rima, Dhamar and Al Dhali’ and detained the WHO team at Sanaa airport and confiscating equipment belonging to the organization, in addition to preventing an international delegation from the program World Food from Taiz Visit ».
The ministry accused the Houthi militia of blatantly interfering in the humanitarian process by charging 20% of any project implemented by the United Nations in favor of the so-called Supreme Council for the Administration and Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs and International Cooperation, which it established.
It also considered these violations "a terrorist act and war crimes in accordance with international and humanitarian laws, and increase the human suffering of the population in the areas controlled by the coupists."
The Yemeni Ministry called on the United Nations to fulfill its responsibilities to put an end to these crimes carried out by the coup militias against relief aid and prompt and urgent intervention to pressure the militias to stop their interference in the humanitarian process.
It also called for the classification of the Houthi group as "the largest group violating human rights."
The Yemeni Ministry of Local Administration called for the classification of the Houthi group as "the largest group violating human rights."
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UN staff prevented by militias from accessing a WFP warehouse in Hodeidah.