Published December 27,2024
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UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres condemns the current escalation between Yemen and Israel, his spokesperson mentioned Thursday.
“Israeli airstrikes today on Sana’a International Airport, the Red Sea ports and power stations in Yemen are especially alarming,” his affiliate spokesperson Stephanie Tremblay instructed reporters.
The airstrikes reportedly brought on quite a few casualties, together with a minimum of three killed and dozens injured, Tremblay mentioned.
Her remarks got here after Israel struck the airport because the World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus was about to board a flight. Tedros and his group had been unhurt.
The WHO chief was in Yemen to barter the discharge of UN staffers who’ve been held hostage by the Houthi group for a number of months and assess the well being and humanitarian scenario within the war-torn nation.
“The Secretary-General remains deeply concerned about the risk of further escalation in the region and reiterates his call for all parties concerned to cease all military actions and exercise utmost restraint,” Tremblay mentioned.
Guterres additionally warned that airstrikes on Yemen’s Red Sea ports and Sana’a airport pose “grave risks” to humanitarian operations at a time when hundreds of thousands of individuals are in want of life-saving help, she added.
Stressing that additional escalation within the area continues to undermine mediation efforts led by the Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for Yemen, Hans Grundberg, to succeed in a negotiated political resolution to the battle in Yemen, Tremblay mentioned Guterres known as for the “immediate and unconditional” launch of all UN and different personnel arbitrarily detained by the Houthis.
Source: www.anews.com.tr