UN assessing damage at Yemeni port city grain mills

The United Nations are assessing possible damage to grain stores it manages near the Yemeni Red Sea port city of Hodeida that were hit by gunfire Thursday, a spokesperson said.

"Any damage to humanitarian food stocks, whether deliberately targeted or as collateral damage, is unacceptable when millions in Yemen continue to suffer from crippling shortages of food," the World Food Program's senior spokesperson Herve Verhoosel told a press briefing in Geneva.

Hodeida, which has become the focus of a four-year war between coalition-backed government forces and the Iran-backed Houthi rebels, is the entry point for most of Yemen's humanitarian aid and commercial imports.