The head of the World Health Organization (WHO), Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, also came under Israeli fire at Sana’a airport in Yemen. He announced this on the X network. The Israeli army, which confirmed the attacks on the international airport after the report of the Haaretz newspaper, according to its statement, aimed the strikes at the targets of the Houthis on the west coast of Yemen and deep in the Yemeni interior.
Photo: SITA/AP, Osama Abdulrahman
Smoke rises from the area around the international airport after an Israeli airstrike in Sana’a, Yemen, Thursday, Dec. 26, 2024.
“When we were about to board the plane from Sana’a about two hours ago, the airport was bombed. One of the crew members of our plane was injured. At least two people were reportedly killed at the airport. The control tower, the departure hall – and just a few meters from where we were – the runway was damaged. have to wait for the damage removal at the airport,” the head of the World Health Organization wrote on his account on the X network. Tedros was in Yemen to negotiate the release of UN staff and assess the health and humanitarian situation in Yemen. According to him, this mission ended today (before the incident). The members of the UN and WHO delegation were not harmed and according to Tedros, they are safe.
Today’s airstrikes targeted several places in Yemen, including Sana’a International Airport and a rebel-controlled power plant, according to witnesses and rebels, AFP reported. It was the fourth Israeli attack in a row.
“The fighter jets struck military targets of the Houthi terrorist regime on Yemen’s west coast and in the interior,” the army said in a statement, saying it was responding to “repeated attacks” by Yemeni rebels “against the State of Israel and its citizens.” A Yemeni television channel linked to the rebels described the attacks as “Israeli aggression”.
Israel will continue to crack down heavily on Iran-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday, according to Reuters. He was responding to a missile fired from Yemen that hit a park in the Israeli city of Jaffa on December 21 and injured 20 people.
The Houthis control northern Yemen and its Red Sea coast. Since the start of the Gaza war, which began after a Hamas terrorist attack in southern Israel last October, the Houthis have been using drones and missiles to attack commercial vessels in the Red Sea, seeking to destabilize global and regional trade. They also attacked Israel several times with these weapons.
Source: spravy.pravda.sk
