Sana'a (Debriefer) Member of the Houthi Supreme Political Council criticized Washington on Sunday after the Department of State accused his Iranian-backed group of storming the mission building in Sana'a City.
The US embassy was evacuated by the Americans," Mohamed Ali al-Houthi tweeted. "Nearly in 2019, they announced stopping the payments for the [embassy's] local staffers in Yemen. And now they claim that a closed embassy was raided and staffers were arrested.
"Pay the salaries of local staff," he added addressing the US. "It's ingratitude to cut wages of those who served you during Yemen's tragic conditions. You abandoned them as the case in Afghanistan."
On Thursday, Washington called on the Houthi group to immediately release local staff working for its embassy in Sana'a.
Armed men of the Houthis stormed the embassy compound, which was closed in 2015, when the United States moved its diplomats to Riyadh following Yemen's war, spokesman for the Department of State said.
While most of them were released, some Yemeni staffers are still detained unjustifiably, the US official said, calling for their immediate release.
