Israel has killed at least 36,050 Palestinians — including babies, children, and women — and wounded 81,026 in its 234-day war on Gaza.
The Africa n Union says Israel continues to violate international law with impunity and in contempt of an ICJ ruling/ Photo: AAThe United Nations' Middle East envoy, Tor Wennesland has called on Israel to conduct a"thorough and transparent" investigation into a strike that killed at least 45 people in southern Gaza's Rafah.
Lanercic stressed that killings of civilians"continue in most horrific ways" in Rafah, a place they were urged to flee to.More than a dozen international NGOs have called on the UN to “enforce” the International Court of Justice’s orders for Israel to end military action in Rafah. "Images of burned children and families emerging from bombed tents in Rafah shocks us all. The reported killing of children sheltering in makeshift tents is unconscionable," Catharine Russell wrote on X.
"There is an increasingly difficult situation, in which the Palestinian people are being squeezed without regard for the rights of innocent men, women and children and this can no longer be justified,” he told Italian TVAn Israeli journalist close to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has gloated over the death of dozens of Palestinians in an Israeli attack in Rafah in southern Gaza.
The statehood recognition is due to be formalised on Tuesday by Ireland in conjunction with Spain and Norway.- Two-state solution will see Palestinians & Israelis enjoying statehood, equality, sustainable human rights & dignityThe Health Ministry in Gaza said that the death toll from an Israeli air strike on a camp housing displaced Palestinians in Rafah had risen to 45.
At least 36,050 people have been killed in the conflict, including 66 over the past 24 hours, the ministry said, adding that 81,026 people have been wounded in Gaza since October 7 last year.The French president Monday expressed his"outrage" over Israeli strikes on Rafah. The president also lashed out at Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, saying:"The embattled Netanyahu and his murderous network trying to extend grip on power by massacring people as they fail to defeat Palestinian resistance."Nkosi Zwelivelile Mandela, the grandson of South African anti-apartheid politician and statesman Nelson Mandela, said Israeli"genocide, ethnic cleansing, war crimes and crimes against humanity" in Palestine have been ongoing for 76 years.
At least 45 people were killed and dozens injured as Israel targeted houses in the city and a camp for the displaced people. Qatar, alongside the United States and Egypt, has been engaged in months of talks aimed at securing a truce deal between Israel and Hamas in devastated Gaza. But behind-the-scenes negotiations reached a stalemate earlier this month as Israel sent ground forces into Rafah.Egypt condemned what it called the"deliberate bombardment by Israeli forces of displaced peoples' tents" in Rafah, in strikes which Gaza's civil defence agency said killed at least 40 people.
Addressing a joint press conference in the Belgian capital Brussels, Norwegian Foreign Minister Espen Barth Eide emphasised the"binding" nature of the International Court of Justice's ruling, which ordered Israel to halt its offensive in Rafah. He also called for respecting the work of the ICC, saying the institution"has been strongly intimidated and accused of anti-Semitism."
RSF said it had"reasonable grounds for thinking that some of these journalists were deliberately killed and that the others were the victims of deliberate IDF attacks against civilians." Dozens of casualties were reported as Israeli air strikes hit tents of displaced Palestinians near the UNRWA headquarters in Gaza's Rafah
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