The UN worker hurt in an Israeli air strike on Yemen’s Sana’a international airport on Thursday suffered serious injuries and has been evacuated to Jordan for further treatment, the World Health Organization said on Friday.
“Attacks on civilians and humanitarians must stop, everywhere” WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said in a post on X that showed him sitting in a plane looking across at what appeared to be the injured man.
Tedros was at the airport waiting to depart when the aerial bombardment took place. that injured the man, who worked for the UN Humanitarian Air Service. Tedros said he had been in Sana’a to negotiate the release of detained UN staff and to assess the humanitarian situation.