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.

Israeli airstrikes hit the Houthi-controlled capital of Sanaa and the port city of Hodeida in Yemen on Thursday. The World Health Organization's director-general reported that the strikes took place as he prepared to board a flight in Sanaa,

Mahmoud Basal, Palestinian Civil Defense spokesman in Gaza, told Xinhua that 13 people were killed and 40 others were injured as a result of an Israeli shelling that targeted a house for displaced people in the Sheikh Radwan neighborhood, north of Gaza City.

At least 59 people were killed in Israeli airstrikes on Gaza, 50 of them in a strike on a building in the most northern part of the strip near the Kamal Adwan Hospital in Beit Lahia.

At least 50 people were killed in an Israeli airstrike on the city of Beit Lahia in the northern part of the Gaza Strip, as reported by the Hamas-controlled Palestinian Ministry of Health late Thursday evening.