On December 27th, the Director General of the World Health Organization, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, issued a statement confirming that he and his team were at the international airport in Sana’a, the capital of Yemen, when the Israeli military bombed the airport that day. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said that they were about to board a plane taking off from Sana’a when the airport was hit by an airstrike. One crew member of the plane was injured, and the runway and some facilities at the airport were damaged. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said that he and the UN staff present are safe, but they can only leave after the airport’s damaged facilities are repaired. (CCTV News)
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