On Tuesday, the World Food Program (WFP) announced the limited resumption of aid distribution in Houthi-controlled areas after a six-month pause of assistance due to a dispute with the group over beneficiary lists. The United Nations agency revealed that this resumption has decreased poor food consumption among families who received food rations by more than half. WFP said it conducted a one-off food distribution in eight districts in Hajjah and Al-Hudaydah during May to assess the impact of this one-off distribution. The UN agency said that poor food consumption soared in the rest of the non-assisted districts of Hajjah and Al-Hudaydah, as 49% of the households reported severe food deprivation during the same period.
The UN Security Council has adopted a resolution to extend the mandate of the United Nations Mission to Support the Hudaydah Agreement (UNMHA), until July 14, 2025. In the resolution, the council expressed its intention to review UNMHA's mandate and make any necessary adjustments as may be required by developments on the ground, including a durable nationwide ceasefire. UNMHA was established in January 2019, after an agreement was reached between the Yemeni government and the Houthi group in Stockholm, Sweden, in December 2018, to oversee the cessation of military activities in the Hudaydah province.
Yemen's Houthi group said late Tuesday that they targeted a total of three ships in the Arabian Sea and Gulf of Aden using missiles and drones. The vessels included an American ship, an Israeli ship and a third ship whose identity remains undisclosed. The strikes occurred when the vessels violated a ban by the group on access to Israeli ports. Houthi military spokesman Yahya Saree confirmed the attacks in a statement. He said the American ship Maersk Sentosa was "directly and accurately" hit in the Arabian Sea by a combination of ballistic and winged missiles. Additionally, the Israeli ship MSC Patnaree was successfully targeted in the Gulf of Aden using drones, he added. The third ship, the Marathopolis, faced drone strikes in the Arabian Sea, Saree said. Neither the US nor Israel have issued a response to the Houthi statement.
Palestinian health authorities say Israel's ground and air campaign in Gaza has killed more than 38,000 people, mostly civilians, and driven most of the enclave's 2.3 million people from their homes. The war began on Oct. 7 when Hamas militants stormed across the border into Israeli communities. As the conflict ground on, and fewer hospitals and morgues continued to operate, the authorities adopted other methods too.