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.

An Israeli strike on the international airport in Sanaa, Yemen, on Dec. 26, killed at least four people, according to local media. Houthi attacks on Israel have ramped up in recent weeks.

Thousands of Yemenis gathered on Friday (December 27) in the capital Sanaa, to protest against the Israeli airstrikes carried out the previous day on Yemen, and to show solidarity with Palestinians in Gaza.

A Palestinian TV channel says five of its journalists have been killed in an Israeli strike in the central Gaza Strip.They were in a Quds Today van parked outside al-Awda hospital, where the wife of one of the journalists was about to give birth,

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.

Dozens of people, including doctors and journalists, were killed in Israeli strikes on Gaza. Meanwhile, Israel said it intercepted a missile from Yemen on Friday amid renewed tensions with the Houthis.