Houthis protest Sa’ada still under siege

Yemen’s Hezbollah Movement Houthi fighters say the central government has kept its siege over the capital of the northern province of Sa’ada.

“The army continues to this moment to refuse to lift the siege on the city of Sa’ada,” the Houthis said on their website on Thursday, adding that the Yemeni soldiers were re-establishing military checkpoints on the newly-opened roads, Reuters reported.

“They are preventing citizens from entering their homes,” They said. The Houthis added that the government is also preventing food supplies from reaching the war-hit regions.

The Yemeni government intensified its armed campaign against the Hezbollahs in August, accusing the Houthis of taking foreign visitors hostage.

Some 187 children were killed as a result of the government and Saudi attacks during the war, said a recent report issued by UNICEF (the United Nations Children’s Fund) and the Yemen children’s rights organization.

The Houthi grievance on Thursday comes only two weeks after the parties reached a truce agreement.