UN chief says Israeli attacks in Yemen alarming

The spokesperson for the UN Secretary General, Antonio Guterres, condemned this Thursday (26) the escalation of tension between Israel and Yemen, saying that Israeli air strikes at Sanaa International Airport, in Yemen, at the ports of Red Sea and power plants were alarming.

Israel said it struck several targets linked to the Iran-allied Houthi movement in Yemen on Thursday, including Sanaa International Airport, and Houthi media said at least six people were killed.

“Israeli airstrikes today on Sanaa International Airport, Red Sea ports and power plants in Yemen are especially alarming,” the UN chief’s spokeswoman said at a press conference while expressing concerns about the risk of more regional escalation.

The head of the World Health Organization, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, said he was about to board a plane at the airport when he was attacked. A member of the plane’s crew was injured, he said.

The Israeli military said that in addition to attacking the airport, it also hit military infrastructure in the ports of Hodeidah, Salif and Ras Kanatib on Yemen’s west coast.

Understand the conflicts involving Israel

At the end of November, a ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah was approved. This comes after months of bombings by the Israeli Army in Lebanon.

The offensive caused destruction and forced more than a million people to leave their homes to escape the war. Furthermore, it left dozens of people dead in Lebanese territory.

Like Hamas, Hezbollah and Islamic Jihad are radical groups financed by Iran, and therefore enemies of Israel.

The expectation is that the agreement will serve as the basis for a more lasting cessation of hostilities.

At the same time, the war continues in the Gaza Strip, where the Israeli military is fighting Hamas and searching for hostages who were kidnapped more than a year ago during the radical group’s attack on Israeli territory on October 7, 2023. At the time, more than 1,200 people were killed and 250 kidnapped.

Since then, more than 43,000 Palestinians have died in Gaza during Israel’s offensive, which also destroyed virtually every building in the Palestinian territory.

On a third front of conflict, Israel and Iran exchanged attacks, which despite raising tension, did not evolve into an all-out war. Furthermore, the Israeli Army has been bombing targets belonging to militias allied with Iran in Syria and Yemen. and in Iraq.

This content was originally published in UN chief says Israeli attacks in Yemen are alarming on the CNN Brasil website.

Source: CNN Brasil

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