A workforce from the World Health Organization (WHO), together with its director-general, got here underneath hearth in an Israeli assault on the worldwide airport in Yemen’s capital on Thursday.
WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus stated the bombardment occurred close by as he ready to board a flight in Sanaa, with a crew member injured.
“The air traffic control tower, the departure lounge – just a few meters from where we were – and the runway were damaged,” Ghebreyesus stated on the social media platform X.
He added that he and his U.N. colleagues have been secure.
“We will need to wait for the damage to the airport to be repaired before we can leave,” he stated, with out mentioning the supply of the bombardment.
U.N. spokesperson Stephanie Tremblay later stated the injured particular person was with the U.N. Humanitarian Air Service.
The new spherical of Israeli airstrikes focused the Yemeni capital, a number of ports and infrastructure. They got here a number of days after launches by Iran-backed Houthi rebels that set off sirens in Israel.
The Israeli army stated it attacked infrastructure utilized by the Houthis on the worldwide airport in Sanaa and ports in Hodeida, Al-Salif and Ras Qantib, together with energy stations.
Israel’s army did not instantly reply to questions on Tedros’ submit however issued a press release saying it had “capabilities to strike very far from Israel’s territory – precisely, powerfully, and repetitively.”
The Houthis-controlled satellite tv for pc channel al-Masirah reported a number of deaths. Iran’s Foreign Ministry condemned the strikes.
The U.S. army additionally has focused the Houthis in Yemen in latest days.
The U.N. has famous that the focused ports are necessary entryways for humanitarian help for Yemen, the poorest Arab nation that plunged right into a civil warfare in 2014.
Over the weekend, 16 folks have been wounded when a Houthi missile hit a playground in Tel Aviv. Last week, Israeli jets struck Sanaa and Hodeida, killing 9 folks, calling it a response to earlier assaults by Houthis.
The Houthis have additionally been concentrating on Israeli cargo ships or these related to Tel Aviv within the Red Sea with missiles and drones in a present of help with the Gaza Strip, the place practically 45,400 folks have been killed in Israel’s genocidal warfare since Oct. 7, 2023.
Meanwhile, an Israeli strike killed 5 Palestinian journalists exterior a hospital in Gaza in a single day, the territory’s Health Ministry stated.
The strike hit a automobile exterior Al-Awda Hospital within the built-up Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza.
Associated Press footage confirmed the incinerated shell of a van, with press markings seen on the again doorways. Sobbing younger males attended the funeral. The our bodies have been wrapped in shrouds, with blue press vests draped over them.
The Committee to Protect Journalists says greater than 130 Palestinian reporters have been killed because the begin of the warfare. Israel hasn’t allowed international reporters to enter Gaza besides on army embeds.
Israel has banned the pan-Arab Al Jazeera community. The Qatar-based broadcaster denies the allegations and accuses Israel of attempting to silence its warfare protection, which has centered closely on civilian casualties from Israeli army operations.
Health authorities say greater than half the fatalities in Gaza have been ladies and youngsters.
The offensive has induced widespread destruction and starvation and pushed round 90% of the inhabitants of two.3 million from their properties. Hundreds of hundreds are packed into squalid tent camps alongside the coast, with little safety from the chilly, moist winter.
Source: www.dailysabah.com