Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus tells the BBC he felt "completely exposed" during the Israeli strike on Yemen's international airport.

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.

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

The head of the World Health Organization said he was about to board a flight in the Yemeni capital when the airport came under bombardment.

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 head of the World Health Organization said on Friday (December 27) he was not sure he was going to survive an air strike carried out by Israel a day earlier during a series of attacks on the Iran-aligned Houthi movement.

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.