The Houthi group insists on placing restrictions and obstacles that prevent humanitarian aid from reaching millions of needy Yemenis, which has exacerbated the severity of the crises experienced by residents of many regions, amid international warnings of the continued obstacles and restrictions imposed by the group on the arrival of aid.

Reports from the United Nations Office for Humanitarian Affairs revealed that the crisis is still crushing more than 19 million Yemenis out of a population of 30 million, with about 5.4 million Yemenis affected by restrictions that constitute the greatest challenge to humanitarian work, especially in areas under the control of the Houthis.

The Yemeni journalist and political analyst, Aidroos Bahashwan, explained that the Houthi siege of relief and humanitarian aid movement doubles the suffering of the needy who are being killed by hunger and disease, and the international community bears a great responsibility that calls for obligating the group to deliver relief, lift restrictions, and respect international conventions regulating humanitarian work. .

Bahashwan stated, in statements to Al-Ittihad, that the Houthi group insists on this intransigence in placing restrictions and obstacles that prevent the arrival of humanitarian and relief aid in the Yemeni regions and governorates, through the so-called “Humanitarian Affairs Council.” The restrictions are, according to UN reports, on security considerations related to armed conflict, bureaucracy, geography, and weak infrastructure.

Last August, the United Nations Humanitarian Coordinator in Yemen, David Gresley, stressed the need to ensure the protection of humanitarian workers, and lift the restrictions that deprive those affected of the assistance they desperately need, and called for the speedy release of UN staff detained by... Al-Houthi about two years ago.

The United Nations condemned the Houthi practices that limit the movements of humanitarian workers, which obstructed the arrival of aid to those in need, following the issuance of a circular by the group’s “Supreme Council for the Administration and Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs” which requires Yemeni workers to obtain... In the relief field, a travel permit was obtained before participating in any activities abroad, and the same condition was applied to travel from Sanaa to Aden.

In turn, the Yemeni political analyst, Saleh Abu Awdhal, stressed the danger of the Houthi practices that withhold humanitarian aid from millions of Yemeni people, which comes within the framework of the group’s policy to achieve political gains by exploiting the humanitarian file and turning it into a tool of blackmail.

Abu Awadhal said in a statement to Al-Ittihad that the Houthi group, before launching the battle to control Yemen, believed that by blackmailing the countries of the region, it would obtain aid and financial donations in order to expand the scope of its influence and project, but it lost the battle of the south due to its clear rejection of it. and intense resistance; So you want to escape forward with humanitarian problems and crises.