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

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.

The director general of the World Health Organization (WHO) has said he and his colleagues "escaped death narrowly" while being caught up in an Israeli air strike on an airport in Yemen.Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus recounted feeling "completely exposed" during the attack,