World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said he and a crew member of his plane injured in Israeli shelling at the airport in the Yemeni capital Sana’a have left Yemen and arrived in Jordan.
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Earlier, the WHO chief said that a member of his plane’s crew, who was injured after a strike near the plane at Sanaa airport on Thursday evening, had successfully undergone surgery and was in stable condition.
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“Today we were able to evacuate our colleague… who was wounded during yesterday’s attack on Sanaa airport in Yemen. We are now in Jordan, where he will receive further medical care,” he wrote on the social network X.
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Earlier, sources at Sanaa airport and local authorities in Hodeidah said the death toll from Israeli airstrikes on Thursday in Yemen’s capital and western Hodeidah province had risen to four, with 16 people injured.
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Since the beginning of this week, the Shiite military-political movement Ansar Allah (Houthis) ruling in northern Yemen has reported daily rocket or drone strikes on Israeli territory in support of the resistance in the Palestinian Gaza Strip. A week ago, Houthi leader Abdel Malik al-Houthi said that since November last year they had launched 1,147 different missiles and drones at Israel, and had also attacked more than 200 Israeli-linked ships in the Red and Arabian Seas.
