The International Court of Justice (ICJ) on Friday ordered Israel to take measures to prevent acts of genocide in Gaza while announcing its initial ruling on a case South Africa brought to the court.
- The ICJ ordered Israel to take measures to prevent acts of genocide in Gaza in an initial ruling in a case South Africa brought against Israel over its military offensive in the Palestinian territory, a landmark ruling closely watched in the Middle East and around the world.
- The director of the CIA will meet in Europe with his Israeli and Egyptian counterparts plus the Qatari prime minister, aiming to negotiate a truce and hostage release in the Israeli-Hamas war, US media reported Thursday.
- Hamas released a video showing three Israeli women held hostage in Gaza. Two said they were soldiers and the third identified herself as a resident of an Israeli community near the Gaza border.
- The UNRWA fired a number of its staffers in Gaza suspected of taking part in the Oct. 7 attack by Hamas and other militants on southern Israel, its director said Friday. This prompted the US, the agency’s biggest donor, to temporarily halt its funding.
- The health ministry in Gaza said at least 20 people were killed and some 150 others were wounded after Israeli fire hit a crowd of people waiting for humanitarian aid in Gaza City.
- The health ministry in Hamas-run Gaza says at least 26,083 people have been killed, mostly women and children, and 64,487 have been injured in Israeli strikes on the enclave since October 7.
- Israeli officials say 1,139 people were killed in the Hamas-led October 7 attacks in southern Israel. Militant fighters took some 240 hostages during the attack and 136 are still in Gaza, according to Israeli figures. The Israeli military says 217 soldiers have been killed in the Gaza Strip since the start of its ground operations in the Palestinian territory.
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