A senior United Nations spokesperson says that Yemen’s Houthis seized a humanitarian facility in Mocha, Al Jazeera reported, citing Farhan Haq, deputy spokesperson for the secretary-general, as saying.

Government forces retreat south to establish alternate command center, aiming to keep vital shipping route in their hands; women and children flee Mocha for safer provinces

The Iranian-backed Houthi terror group took control of Mocha, a Yemeni port city on the Red Sea and less than 50 miles from the Bab al-Mandab Strait, Yemeni officials told Reuters…