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The Iranian-backed Houthis have raided offices of the United Nations’ food and children’s agencies in Yemen’s capital, detaining at least one UN employee, officials said, as the rebels tightened security across Sana’a after Israel’s killing of their prime minister and several cabinet members.

Abeer Etefa, a spokesperson for the World Food Programme, said security forces raided the agencies’ offices in the Houthi-controlled capital on Sunday morning. “WFP reiterates that the arbitrary detention of humanitarian staff is unacceptable,” Etefa said.
Ammar Ammar, a spokesperson for Unicef, said there was “an ongoing situation” related to its offices in Sana’a, without providing further details.

A UN official said contacts with several other WFP and Unicef staffers were lost and that they were likely to also have been detained.