The Director-General of the World Health Organisation, Tedros Ghebreyesus, has reported that an Israeli attack hit Sana’a airport just as he and the WHO teams were leaving the capital following a humanitarian mission to free UN detainees.
Dr Ghebreyesus was in Yemen as part of a mission to seek the release of detained UN staff and assess the health and humanitarian situations in the war-torn country.
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According to a post he made on his X handle, one of his plane’s crew members was injured, and at least two people were reported killed at the airport. Other parts of the airport damaged by the strike include the air traffic control tower, the departure lounge, which was just a few metres from where his team was, as well as the runway.
He added that WHO teams were compelled to wait for the damage to the airport to be repaired before they could leave.
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