South Africa information case of genocide in opposition to Israel, as assaults on Gaza, occupied West Financial institution and southern Lebanon proceed – right here is the most recent.
Right here’s how issues stand on Saturday, December 30, 2023:
Newest updates and human influence
- Israeli floor forces and tanks are pushing into the jap, southern and northern outskirts of the Bureij refugee camp in central Gaza. However they haven’t but reached the western aspect and Hamas fighters are resisting the incursion.
- Israel’s bombardment of southern Gaza has intensified with the Israeli military, navy and air drive focusing on a number of places in Khan Younis and Rafah. Israel has hit residential areas and civilian infrastructure, leading to a lot of deaths. In line with the United Nations, between Thursday and Friday afternoon, 187 Palestinians have been killed and 312 wounded in these assaults.
- The Palestinian Pink Crescent Society (PRCS) released video footage of its emergency ambulance crews evacuating critically wounded youngsters in Khan Younis metropolis following an assault on a residential condo constructing amid persevering with Israeli bombing raids.
- Israel’s army has claimed to have destroyed a community of tunnels and a hideout belonging to Yahya Sinwar, Hamas’s chief in Gaza.
- Israel’s army says two extra Hezbollah websites have been hit in southern Lebanon, after an Israeli official on the United Nations Safety Council on Friday promised “full-scale war” on Hezbollah if assaults on Israel’s north proceed.
- Philippe Lazzarini, the top of the UN Palestine reduction company (UNRWA), has accused Israeli officers and media shops of “creating a stream of baseless misinformation” about gaps in assist deliveries to Gaza. His feedback come amid Israeli assaults on assist convoys.
- In Gaza, at the very least 21,507 folks have been killed and 55,915 injured in Israeli assaults since October 7. The revised demise toll from Hamas’s assault on Israel stands at 1,139.
Diplomacy
- South Africa has initiated proceedings in opposition to Israel on the Worldwide Courtroom of Justice (ICJ), saying its operations in Gaza quantity to “genocide”- a transfer that has been welcomed by the Palestinian international ministry.
- Israel has rejected South Africa’s transfer as a “blood libel”. Overseas ministry spokesperson Lior Haiat stated on X that the declare “lacks both a factual and a legal basis”.
- Israeli officers see it as a “positive sign” that Hamas could also be open to new talks on captives. Talking anonymously, the officers stated they’re approaching it with an abundance of warning, however that it’s a step in the appropriate route, in line with Al Jazeera correspondents reporting from Jerusalem.
- United States President Joe Biden’s administration has bypassed Congress to approve a doable “emergency” weapons sale to Israel.
- On the UN Safety Council, the UK’s ambassador to the UN has warned that “many more” folks will die in Gaza with out humanitarian motion.
Escalation in occupied West Financial institution
- Israeli forces have arrested 14 Palestinians from the Jalazone refugee camp, north of Ramallah within the occupied West Financial institution, as raids within the territory intensify.
- The Palestinian Ministry of Well being has stated {that a} 17-year-old boy who was shot within the chest by Israeli forces on Friday has been detained within the occupied West Financial institution. The teenager was arrested in an ambulance at a checkpoint whereas he was being moved to a medical facility.