{"id":13040,"date":"2024-12-27T12:52:12","date_gmt":"2024-12-27T09:22:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.hamsonews.com\/who-chief-tedros-was-meters-away-from-israeli-attack-on-yemen-airport\/"},"modified":"2024-12-27T12:52:12","modified_gmt":"2024-12-27T09:22:12","slug":"who-chief-tedros-was-meters-away-from-israeli-attack-on-yemen-airport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/who-chief-tedros-was-meters-away-from-israeli-attack-on-yemen-airport\/","title":{"rendered":"WHO chief Tedros was meters away from Israeli attack on Yemen airport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en.hamsonews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/5305584.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"item-text\">\n<p class=\"summary\">A wave of Israeli air attacks\u00a0hit Yemen\u2019s main airport\u00a0just as the World Health Organization\u2019s director-general said he was about to board a flight there, wounding one of the United Nations plane\u2019s crew, the WHO chief has said.<\/p>\n<p>Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said in a post on X that he was just meters away from the attack on Sanaa airport on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs we were about to board our flight from Sanaa \u2026 the airport came under aerial bombardment. One of our plane\u2019s crew members was injured,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe air traffic control tower, the departure lounge \u2013 just a few meters from where we were \u2013 and the runway were damaged,\u201d he said, adding that he and his colleagues were safe.<\/p>\n<p>There was no immediate comment from Israel on the incident.<\/p>\n<p>The Yemeni Saba news agency said that three people were killed in the strikes on the airport and another three were killed after Israel hit the key port city of Hodeidah, while 40 others were wounded in Israeli attacks.<\/p>\n<p>Yemen\u2019s Ansarallah has repeatedly fired drones and missiles towards Israel in solidarity with Palestinians in Gaza.<\/p>\n<p>Al Jazeera\u2019s Gabriel Elizondo, reporting from UN headquarters in New York, said Ghebreyesus and his staff were evacuated out to safety shortly after the attack on the airport.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe UN tells us all of their staff are accounted for. But make no mistake about it, this was a very close call,\u201d Elizondo said.<\/p>\n<p>UN spokesperson Stephanie Tremblay told reporters that the delegation had just concluded discussions on the humanitarian situation in Yemen and were negotiating the release of detained UN staff members.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe secretary-general emphasizes that international law, including humanitarian law as applicable, must be respected at all times, and he appeals to all to respect and protect civilians and civilian infrastructure,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHumanitarian relief personnel also must not be targeted and must be respected and protected at all times.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tehrantimes.com\/news\/507954\/WHO-chief-Tedros-was-meters-away-from-Israeli-attack-on-Yemen\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A wave of Israeli air attacks\u00a0hit Yemen\u2019s main airport\u00a0just as the World Health Organization\u2019s director-general said he was about to board a flight there, wounding one of the United Nations plane\u2019s crew, the WHO chief has said. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said in a post on X that he was just meters away from the attack &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13041,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3853,28,6,3852,381,752],"class_list":["post-13040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-airport","tag-international","tag-israel","tag-tedros-adhanom-ghebreyesus","tag-who","tag-yemen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13040","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13040"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13040\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}