The World Food Program announced that more than a million people in the Houthi group controlled, northern Yemen, were deprived of emergency food aid due to what it described as "operational challenges."

The program, in its latest monthly reports on food insecurity in Yemen, said that 1.3 million people in 38 districts are among the Houthi -controlled areas, deprived of obtaining emergency food aid due to "operational challenges".

The report added that the second session of emergency food aid for the year 2025, which started in mid -February, was to target 2.8 million people in 70 directorates under the control of the Houthis, but the program only reached about 1.5 million people in 32 districts by mid -March.

The UN program indicated that it is currently the distribution of aid for nearly 3 million people in the areas within the influence of the internationally recognized Yemeni government in each distribution cycle, by 2.2 million people with food aid in general, in addition to 787.5 thousand others with cash transfers.

The Houthi group seized the lunch stock of the World Food Program from its warehouse in Saada Governorate, the main stronghold of the group, northern Yemen.

The US Central Command, "Centcom", said in a statement on the "X" platform, that "on March 15, the Houthi militia in Saada Governorate began seizing the food stock of the World Food Program from its warehouse from the goods designated for Yemeni civilians."

I stated that the warehouse contains more than 2.5 million kilograms (5,700,000 pounds) of goods for Yemeni civilians.

It stated that this illegal seizure of the World Food Program will increase the obstruction of the necessary humanitarian aid to the Yemeni people.

According to the statement, this is another example of complete and fully ignored by the Houthis of the suffering of the Yemeni people, and their ongoing aggression on the humanitarian operations that aim to help the needy.

He explained that the Houthis continue to violate international humanitarian law and endanger relief workers and the Yemeni people. They do not care about the interests of the Yemenis at all.

These developments come in light of the United Nations continuing to stop its activities in Saada Governorate, following a wave of kidnappings that affected its employees in the province, and the killing of "Ahmed Baaloui", one of the employees of the World Food Program, in the prisons of the Houthi group in Saada last February after about 18 days of his kidnapping.