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SvennoJ on 27 December 2024
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WFP says UN air service crew member injured in Israeli attack on Yemen airport

The UN’s World Food Programme (WFP) has confirmed that one of its humanitarian aircrew personnel was injured by the Israeli attack on Yemen’s Sanaa airport.

WFP said the aircrew member is currently receiving medical treatment and reminded Israel that “humanitarians are not a target”, in a post on social media. The UN food relief agency said it was “deeply concerned about the targeting” of Sanaa airport, which affected the UN’s humanitarian air service.

The UN’s humanitarian air service “is a critical lifeline for the humanitarian community in Yemen and around the world”, WFP added.



Israeli attack on Yemen’s Sanaa airport was ‘a very close call’ for UN staff

Secretary-General Antonio Guterres is travelling out of the country. He is on holiday. But we were told that he has been briefed multiple times throughout the day on the situation in Yemen.

Here at the UN headquarters in New York, they are also spending many hours trying to gather details about what transpired. We were told that shortly after the attack on the airport in Sanaa, the WHO’s Dr Tedros and his staff were evacuated out to safety, and they are safe at this hour.

The UN tells us that all of their staff are accounted for. But make no mistake about it, this was a very close call.


WHO chief says injured colleague evacuated from Yemen after Israeli attack

WHO chief Tedros Ghebreyesus said a staff member from the World Food Programme has been evacuated from Yemen after his injury in a series of Israeli air attacks on Thursday.

“We are now in Jordan, where he will receive further medical treatment. Deepest gratitude to the UNHAS (United Nations Humanitarian Air Service) team for their service and swift evacuation from Yemen, where we were on a UN mission to negotiate for the release of detained colleagues,” Ghebreyesus wrote on X.

“Attacks on civilians and humanitarians must stop, everywhere.”

On Thursday, Ghebreyesus said a wave of Israeli air strikes hit Sanaa airport just as he was about to board his flight along with his team, injuring a UN plane crew member.