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WHO chief details ‘close’ encounter to Israeli strike at Yemen airport
STORY: This is the moment an Israeli air strike hit a tower at Yemen’s Sanaa airport on Thursday.Reuters verified the date by aftermath footage and reports of the strike, and was able to confirm the location as objects seen in videos matched file and satellite imagery of the area.The head of the World Health Organization, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, said he was at the airport when chaos struck. :: Given as December 26, 2024Surveillance footage broadcasted on a Yemen television channel showed a man which it said was WHO Chief Tedros, seated in a lounge before being abruptly escorted.:: Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General, World Health Organization”I was not sure actually I could survive because it was so close, a few meters from where we were.”Tedros spoke via telephone from Jordan on Friday, where he flew after the strike to help evacuate a United Nations colleague who was seriously injured at the airport. “You know, we didn’t know actually what would happen, but after four explosions, I think it stopped. The bombing occurred alarmingly close to our location, just meters away. And to be honest, a slight deviation could have resulted in a direct hit.”Tedros traveled to Yemen over Christmas to try to negotiate the release of 16 U.N. staff and others held there. He acknowledged that the trip was risky in light of tensions between Israel and the Houthis.:: FileHe said talks with Yemeni authorities had gone well and that he saw a chance that staff could be freed.:: Tel Aviv, IsraelIsrael’s military said it struck multiple targets linked to the Houthi movement on Thursday, after Houthis repeatedly fired drones and missiles toward Israel in what they describe as acts of solidarity with Palestinians in Gaza.Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said afterwards that Israel was “just getting started” with the Houthis.
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