WHO Director-Basic Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus appears on all through a press convention with the Affiliation of Authorised Correspondents on the United Countries (ACANU) on the Global Well being Group’s headquarters in Geneva, on December 10, 2024.
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The pinnacle of the Global Well being Group, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, says he and his United Countries colleagues “escaped loss of life narrowly” at Yemen’s primary airport when Israeli airstrikes focused the ability. Talking with the BBC, Tedros described the scene on the airport all through the Thursday assault as “very chaotic.” “Folks have been in disarray and operating far and wide,” he informed Radio 4’s These days program on Saturday. The WHO leader stated he and his staff have been “totally uncovered” and that it used to be “a question of good fortune, in a different way if the missile deviated simply fairly it will had been on our heads.”
Tedros have been ready to board a flight within the Yemeni capital, Sanaa, when the Israeli missile struck. When the airport got here beneath assault, one of the vital U.N. aircraft’s workforce used to be injured. No less than 3 others on the airport have been reported killed. Video of the airport presentations U.N. officers looking to spirit Tedros to protection. Israel’s army stated the assault used to be geared toward infrastructure utilized by Yemen’s Houthi rebels and Iran. Israel stated it wasn’t conscious that the U.N. delegation used to be at Sanaa airport on the time of the strike.
