On Dec. 26, Israel launched major attacks on the port cities of Hodeidah and Ras Isa, as well as in Yemen’s capital Sana’a. The death count so far stands at six with forty injured, and both the Hodeidah and Ras Isa ports have been completely put out of service. The strikes included the Sana’a International Airport, where the airport control tower was struck and two airport employees killed. A source told Al Mayadeen that the Israeli aggression on Sana’a and Hodeidah directly targeted civilian facilities, and was carried out with the U.S. and U.K.’s coordination and support.
The strike on Sana’a’s airport nearly struck the head of the World Health Organization (WHO) Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, who was on a high-level UN delegation to Yemen trying to assess the humanitarian crisis there. The Israeli strike came “meters away” from hitting Dr. Tedros, and wounded a crew member on the plane that Tedros was trying to board.
