Houthi militia is holding the UN monitoring ship in Hodeidah port
English - Tuesday 24 March 2020 الساعة 05:18 pm
Mocha, Newsyemen:
The government team in the Coordination Committee for Redeployment in Hodeidah said that the Houthi militia seized, on Tuesday, a United Nations ship docking in the port of Hodeidah, carrying the United Nations mission to Hodeidah, and prevented it from leaving for the second time.
In a statement published by the Yemeni News Agency (Saba), the head of the government team, Major General Mohamed Aida, held the United Nations Mission responsibility for Security and Safety of officers of the government team, calling on the mission to take the correct measures to ensure the impartiality and freedom of all the ship.
The ship was scheduled to sail at six in the morning today, Tuesday, to the port of Mocha to deliver the control officers of the government team in the Redeployment Coordination Committee in Hodeidah working in the joint operations center on the ship.
The United Nations previously hired the ship to hold joint meetings and operate it as an operations center for joint oversight officers, which is assumed to be a neutral place not controlled by any of the parties.
The government team called on the United Nations Mission to return the officers since the government team suspended its work with the mission on March 11, after the Houthi militia targeted one of the oversight officers (Colonel Mohammed al-Salihi) of the government team on March 11 with a live bullet, which is currently being treated in the intensive care room .
