WHO Director-Basic Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus seems on throughout a press convention with the Affiliation of Accredited Correspondents on the United Nations (ACANU) on the World Well being Group’s headquarters in Geneva, on December 10, 2024.
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The top of the World Well being Group, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, says he and his United Nations colleagues “escaped demise narrowly” at Yemen’s foremost airport when Israeli airstrikes focused the power.
Talking with the BBC, Tedros described the scene on the airport through the Thursday assault as “very chaotic.”
“Folks had been in disarray and working all over the place,” he informed Radio 4’s Today program on Saturday.
The WHO chief stated he and his workforce had been “utterly uncovered” and that it was “a matter of luck, in any other case if the missile deviated simply barely it may have been on our heads.”
Tedros had been waiting to board a flight within the Yemeni capital, Sanaa, when the Israeli missile struck. When the airport got here underneath assault, one of many U.N. airplane’s crew was injured. At the least three others on the airport had been reported killed.
Video of the airport exhibits U.N. officers making an attempt to spirit Tedros to security.
Israel’s navy said the assault was aimed toward infrastructure utilized by Yemen’s Houthi rebels and Iran. Israel stated it wasn’t conscious that the U.N. delegation was at Sanaa airport on the time of the strike.
