Today, Wednesday, an official in the internationally recognized Yemeni government accused a leader of the  Houthi rebles of attacking a United Nations clinic in Hodeidah Governorate (west of Yemen), the focus of the Sweden agreement reached by the two parties in late 2018, calling for the transfer of the headquarters The UN mission to a neutral area.

The first deputy of the Hodeidah governorate, Walid Al-Qadimi, said, via Twitter, that "the transfer of the United Nations mission to a neutral area has become a fait accompli, as Abu Ali Al-Kahlani, the so-called director of Hodeidah security, attacked the World Food Program clinic and looted the Corona (Covid-19) vaccine." designated for United Nations personnel and prevents any vaccine.

He added, "No action has been taken by the United Nations mission or the office of the UN envoy."

There was no comment from the United Nations mission or the Houthi group regarding the accusation of the Yemeni government official.

In March 2019, the internationally recognized government suspended the participation of its team in the joint committee to coordinate the redeployment of forces headed by the head of the United Nations Mission in Support of the Hodeidah Agreement "UNMHA", General Abhijit Guha, after the killing of a liaison officer in the government forces, Colonel Muhammad al-Sulayhi, in a sniping operation accused of The Houthi group will implement it, conditional on an investigation into the incident, and the transfer of the headquarters of the UN mission in Hodeidah from the group’s control areas, in order to resume its participation.

During the round of peace negotiations in Sweden, in late December 2018, the Yemeni government and the Houthi group reached an agreement on Hodeidah, which included the joint redeployment of forces from the city of Hodeidah and its ports, Hodeidah, Salif and Ras Issa, to agreed locations outside the city and ports.

However, the agreement was not implemented due to differences between the two parties over its details, amid mutual accusations of violations of the UN armistice declared in the coastal governorate on the Red Sea.

Yemen has been witnessing violent battles for nearly 7 years between the Houthi group and its allied forces on the one hand, and the Yemeni army affiliated with the internationally recognized government backed by an Arab military coalition led by Saudi Arabia on the other hand to restore vast areas controlled by the group, including the capital, Sanaa, in the center of the country in late 2014.