WHO Director Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus Miraculously Escapes Airstrikes on Sanaa Airport Airstrikes on Sanaa Airport: WHO Director Narrowly Escapes Tragedy Israel has carried out airstrikes on a civilian airport in Yemen as a plane carrying hundreds of people was landing. Yesterday afternoon, the airport in Sanaa, the capital of Yemen, was the target of massive airstrikes attributed to Israel, endangering civilians and international figures present there. Among them, the Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO), Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, narrowly escaped tragedy.