The United Nations' highest court will announce its decision on urgent measures to protect Palestinians in Gaza this Friday afternoon.
Israeli tanks continue to bomb the surrounding area of two hospitals Khan Younesthe capital in the southern Gaza Strip, forcing people already displaced by more than fifteen weeks of fighting in the Palestinian enclave to flee to find new refuge.
There International community is increasingly concerned about this situation. After the USA, France and Germany also condemned their “deadly shots”. There International Court of Justice The International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague could intervene and order Israel to curb its offensive, even if it cannot force it to do so. The United Nations' highest court must announce its decision this Friday afternoon urgent measures to protect Palestinians in Gaza. South Africa has urgently appealed to the United Nations' highest court to order Israel to “immediately halt its military operations in Gaza,” accusing Israel of “genocide.”
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At least 50 people were killed in Khan Younes in the last 24 hours, according to the Gaza Health Service. The Israeli army continues to intensify its offensive in the Capital in the southern Gaza Strip after it began withdrawing some of its troops from the north of the enclave – an area where it had concentrated operations in response to the Hamas attack on October 7 and which it now considers to be generally under control.
A human flood of displaced people
After being forced to flee the north of the territory, Most of Gaza's 2.3 million people now live in Khan Younes and neighboring towns. Local residents said Khan Yunis was surrounded by Israeli tanks and was constantly shot at by Israeli aircraft. Thick clouds of black smoke spread across various parts of the city on Thursday.
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Israel accuses Hamas militants of using hospitals to house their bases and operations, something the Palestinian group and medical staff deny. By intensifying its offensive in Khan Younes, as well as laying siege to the city's main hospitals with the announced goal of neutralizing the Hamas stronghold in the south of the Gaza Strip, the Israeli army has made the efforts of rescuers to recover the injured or the bodies almost impossible.