Israel has banned the pan-Arab Al Jazeera network and accused six of its Gaza reporters of being militants. The Qatar-based broadcaster denies the allegations and accuses Israel of trying to silence its war coverage, which has focused heavily on civilian casualties from Israeli military operations.

The WHO Director-General said the explosions that rocked the building were so deafening that his ears were still ringing more than a day later.

STORY: This is the moment an Israeli air strike hit a tower at Yemen’s Sanaa airport on Thursday.Reuters verified the date by aftermath footage and reports of the strike, and was able to confirm the location as objects seen in videos matched file and satellite imagery of the area.

Israeli fighter jets targeted sites in Yemen on Thursday, including the international airport of the capital Sana'a, in response to attacks by the Iran-backed Houthi movement. The Houthi-controlled health ministry said at least four people were killed and 42 injured.

Director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus was in Sanaa airport waiting to board a flight when it came under Israeli bombardment.

The U.N. worker hurt in an Israeli air strike on Yemen's main international airport on Thursday suffered serious injuries and has been evacuated to Jordan for further treatment, the World Health Organization said on Friday.

General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus says he and colleagues "escaped death narrowly" when an Israeli airstrike targeted Yemen's main airport.

Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the head of the WHO, revealed that he and his colleagues "nearly escaped death" during an Israeli airstrike on an airport in Yemen. The attack, which occurred as they were leaving Sanaa on Thursday,

Israeli air strikes hit Yemen’s main airport as a civilian Airbus 320 with hundreds of passengers on board was landing and a UN delegation was waiting to leave, the UN’s top humanitarian official in Yemen.

Immediately after the airstrikes, U.N. security officials moved the delegation out of the VIP building and into five armored cars.

Footage shown on Yemen news channel Al Masirah showed the moment a Sana'a airport tower was hit by an Israeli strike. The footage also showed tarmac footage, allegedly showing a United Nations pilot being injured during the strike.