Published December 26,2024
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The World Health Organization (WHO) on Thursday stated he was at Yemen’s Sanaa airport when it was hit by Israeli air strikes.
“As we were about to board our flight from Sana’a, about two hours ago, the airport came under aerial bombardment. One of our plane’s crew members was injured,” Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus stated on X. “At least two people were reported killed at the airport.”
“The air traffic control tower, the departure lounge — just a few meters from where we were — and the runway were damaged,” he stated, including that the mission wants to attend for the injury to the airport to be repaired earlier than they’ll go away.
Tedros stated he and his colleagues are secure and despatched “heartfelt condolences” to the relations of those that misplaced their lives within the assault.
The WHO chief and his colleagues have been in Yemen to negotiate the discharge of UN workers detainees and assess the nation’s well being and humanitarian state of affairs, which concluded Thursday.
“We continue to call for the detainees’ immediate release,” he added.
Israeli warplanes launched a brand new wave of airstrikes in Yemen on Thursday night amid rising regional tensions over Israel’s genocidal battle on Gaza, Israeli media stated.
The strikes focused a number of strategic websites in Yemen, together with Sanaa airport and the port of Al-Hudaydah in western Yemen.
The Houthis have focused Israeli cargo ships or these related to Tel Aviv within the Red Sea with missiles and drones in a present of assist with the Gaza Strip, the place greater than 45,000 individuals have been killed in Israel’s battle since Oct. 7, 2023.
Source: www.anews.com.tr