Israel strikes Yemen's Sanaa airport during visit of WHO chief

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26 December 2024 at 1:45 pm·2-min read

Israeli air strikes hit Sanaa International Airport and other sites in Yemen on Thursday, killing three. The strikes, in response to Houthi attacks on Israel, also injured a plane's crew member, said WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, who was at the airport. Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu said the strikes would continue "until the job is done".

Israeli air strikes pummelled Sanaa's international airport and other targets in Yemen on Thursday, leaving three people dead, a day after the latest attacks on Israel by Iran-backed Houthi rebels.

World Health Organisation chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus was at the airport during the strike, he said, adding that "one of our plane's crew members was injured".

The strikes targeting the airport, military facilities and power stations in rebel areas follow rising hostilities between Israel and the Houthis, part of Iran's "axis of resistance" alliance against Israel.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned that Israel's strikes would "continue until the job is done".

"We are determined to cut this branch of terrorism from the Iranian axis of evil," he said in a video statement.

His defence minister Israel Katz said Israel would "hunt down all the Houthi leaders... No one will be able to escape us".

Tedros, who was in Yemen to seek the release of detained UN staff and assess the humanitarian situation in war-torn Yemen, said he and his team were about to board their flight when "the airport came under aerial bombardment".

"The Houthi terrorist regime is a central part of the Iranian axis of terror," it added.

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