The International Court of Justice in The Hague believes there is sufficient urgency to order provisional measures against Israel.
Judge Joan Donoghue stated this when ordering Israel to "take all measures to prevent any act of genocide in Gaza".
The International Court of Justice in The Hague finds that a dispute exists between Israel and South Africa and gives the court jurisdiction to rule on the case.
This was stated by American judge Joan Donoghue, according to whom "at least some acts seem capable of falling within the genocide convention", and "the Court believes it cannot accept Israel's request to dismiss the case".
The Hague Court rules that at least some of South Africa's complaints of human rights violations are justified.
Judge Joan E. Donoghue declared this, as reported by Haaretz.
Justice Donoghue said the court is aware of the scale of the human tragedy occurring in the region and is deeply concerned by the continued loss of life in Gaza.
Donoghue quoted United Nations emergency relief coordinator Martin Griffiths as saying that "Gaza has become a place of death and despair."
The judge says 1.7 million people have been displaced in Gaza and that the enclave has become "uninhabitable" but notes, however, that the numbers from Gaza cannot be independently verified.
Hamas is operating "in and around the Nasser and al-Amal hospitals in Khan Yunis" in the south of the Strip.
The Israeli army denounced this, according to which "the systematic use of hospitals by Hamas has been repeatedly documented".
In this regard, the military spokesperson recalled that two weeks ago "the army radar identified a rocket launch from inside the Nasser hospital compound".
"The facts on the ground," he explained, "disprove the blatant misinformation spread over the last 72 hours according to which hospitals are under siege or attack."
The Army added that it "is in contact with hospital directors and medical personnel, on the phone and in the field, to ensure that hospitals can remain operational and accessible."
The military spokesman explained that "there is no obligation to evacuate hospitals".
"On the contrary, it was reiterated - he underlined - the importance of safeguarding and protecting these hospitals so that they can continue to provide medical services to the population of Gaza".
The soldiers - according to the same source - were informed "of the importance of operating with caution in the area of the designated hospitals and shelters before their operation against Hamas in this area".
"The inhabitants of Gaza who wish to move from the Nasser and Al-Amal hospitals, as many have chosen to do, - the military spokesman said - can pass through the corridor of Al-Bahar Street, located on the western side of the hospitals. The army communicated this information in Arabic through media channels, distributing leaflets in Arabic in the area, as well as through Arabic-speaking IDF soldiers who are deployed on the ground in Gaza to maintain contact with the local population."
The IDF - he concluded - is continuing "coordination with hospital directors, medical staff and international organisations. To date, the hospitals' requests have been satisfied and we have not found any incident that confirms the inaccurate news circulating in some parts of the media".
"There is no difference between men, women, elderly people and children. All are legitimate targets to be shot at or prisoners of war": this is the indication given to Hamas militiamen by its Shura Council (the political-religious guide).
The Israeli public television Kan reported this, citing a document recovered by the army in a Hamas base in Gaza.
"The entire Zionist society - we read - is a collective of settlers, responsible for the theft of land, massacres and desecration of Islamic holy places".
According to the broadcaster "Hamas' cruelty had a religious backing, it was planned from the beginning".
Israel, intense battles underway in Khan Yunis
Intense battles are still ongoing in Khan Yunis, in the southern Gaza Strip and Israel continues to strike dozens of "Hamas terrorist targets".
This was announced by the military spokesman.
During a series of operations carried out in Khan Yunis, the armed forces website updates, 200 entrances to military tunnels were discovered, 130 "Hamas infrastructures" were destroyed and ten rocket launch sites were bombed.
In the north of the Strip other "Hamas terrorist infrastructures" were hit thanks to a combined activity of ground forces aided by the air force.
In particular, a military aircraft hit a building "full of explosives".
According to the newspaper Israel ha-Yom, in over three months of fighting, Hamas' rocket supplies have almost run out, after it launched over 9,000 of them towards Israel and after almost as many were destroyed on the ground by Israeli forces.
The newspaper estimates that Hamas now has only a few hundred rockets.
New protest in Kerem Shalom blocks aid from entering Gaza
Dozens of people blocked, for the third consecutive day, the entry of humanitarian aid at the Israeli Kerem Shalom crossing into Gaza.
The organizers of the protest - which also includes relatives of the hostages - have denounced that "no help will arrive until the last of the kidnapped has been freed".
China, 'very worried about the escalation in the Red Sea'
China is "deeply concerned" by the sharp increase in tensions in the Red Sea whose waters "are an important international trade channel for goods and energy".
Foreign Ministry spokesperson Wang Wenbin, when asked about press reconstructions relating to requests for help from Chinese officials to their Iranian counterparts to slow down the Houthi attacks so as not to risk damaging Beijing-Tehran commercial relations, urged "the parties interested in avoiding adding fuel to the tensions and jointly safeguarding the safety of navigation in accordance with the law".
Tajani, let's work for peace and the release of the hostages
"We are friends of Israel, which must live in peace and serenity. Israel has suffered an unimaginable attack: mothers raped, a child put in an oven... Israel must defeat Hamas which is the new Gestapo, they are the new SS. But Israel must pay close attention to the civilian population of Gaza. We do not share some Israeli positions, we are for two peoples and two states, but we are friends of Israel and we give them good advice. To the leaders of the Palestinian National Authority, who I met yesterday, I said to continue working for peace, they are in favor of the release of all the hostages without any compensation. I send a message to everyone: work for peace and the release of all the hostages who are suffering unprecedented violence."
Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani said this while speaking on Mattino Cinque on Canale 5.
Ministry of Health Gaza, over 26 thousand Palestinians killed
According to the latest data published by the Hamas-controlled Gaza Ministry of Health, at least 26,083 Palestinians have been killed and 64,487 wounded by Israeli forces in the Gaza Strip since the start of the war.
Al Jazeera reports it.
In the last 24 hours at least 183 people have been killed and 377 injured, according to the same source.
Israel, 'significant US pressure to release hostages'
"US pressure is of great importance in efforts to return the hostages."
This was stated by Defense Minister Yoav Gallant who spoke with his US counterpart Lloyd Austin.
Gallant denounced to him that Hezbollah's refusal to withdraw its forces "from the border" of Lebanon "reduces the possibility of reaching a political solution, despite Israel's support for this position".
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