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Israel’s plan for Palestinian resettlement is condemned globally because the ICJ confirms it’ll maintain public hearings. Right here is the most recent:
Right here’s how issues stand on Thursday, January 4, 2024:
Newest updates and human affect:
- The Worldwide Courtroom of Justice (ICJ) has confirmed that it’s going to maintain public hearings at The Hague on January 11 and 12 relating to South Africa’s case towards Israel.
- Rafah municipality head Ahmed al-Soufi advised Anadolu Company on Wednesday that the variety of displaced individuals who arrived in Rafah within the southernmost a part of Gaza is about a million, for the reason that conflict broke out on October 7. The standard inhabitants of Rafah is about 300,000.
- As hearth exchanges proceed between Israel’s northern border and Lebanon’s southern border, the Israeli military says that it’s going to proceed its assault on Lebanese territory because it sees match, Al Jazeera’s Hamdah Salhut reported from occupied East Jerusalem.
- Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah stated his closely armed forces would combat to the end if Israel selected to increase the conflict to Lebanon.
- The newest Israeli strikes killed 4 males who have been reportedly Hezbollah members within the southern Lebanese city of Naqoura.
- Fourteen members of 1 household — the Salah household — have been killed in a single day in an Israeli bombardment of Gaza.
- Israeli strikes proceed within the neighborhood of al-Amal hospital, the headquarters of the Palestinian Purple Crescent in Gaza, Palestinian information company Wafa reported.
- Israeli aerial and floor assaults have just lately focused the southern Gaza metropolis of Khan Younis and Bureij refugee camp in central Gaza.
Diplomacy and support supply:
- Senior US Schooling Division coverage adviser Tariq Habash resigned in protest of President Joe Biden’s strategy to the conflict. “The President should name for a everlasting ceasefire,” he wrote in an X post on Wednesday.
- Humanitarian businesses have been unable to ship support to the north of the Gaza Strip for the previous three days, United Nations company OCHA reported on Wednesday. OCHA added that energetic battle coupled with entry delays was the explanation for this, however didn’t state who was accountable.
- The Dutch international ministry known as current remarks by Israeli ministers Bezalel Smotrich and Itamar Ben-Gvir relating to Palestinian resettlement from Gaza as “irresponsible”, in a publish on X on Wednesday.
- The Netherlands, Germany, France and Saudi Arabia have additionally condemned Israel’s requires the pressured migration of Palestinians.
- US Secretary of State Antony Blinken is ready for an additional go to to the Center East, his fourth for the reason that conflict broke out in Gaza. He intends to make a cease in Israel.
Raids within the West Financial institution:
- A raid that began within the Nur Shams refugee camp in Tulkarem has entered its second day, Al Jazeera’s Salhut reported. Residents are saying {that a} large variety of Palestinians have been arrested, however the quantity has not been confirmed but.
- In Nur Shams, armoured bulldozers have destroyed infrastructure and folks’s houses have been ransacked, reported Al Jazeera’s Laura Khan from East Jerusalem.
- Water strains, retailer fronts, business institutions and houses have been destroyed.
- One other raid is happening in Tubas, on the northeastern aspect of the occupied West Financial institution. Salhut has reported {that a} Palestinian has died in gunfights there.
- A number of different raids are taking place in Nablus, Ramallah, Hebron and Bethlehem.
- A younger Palestinian man was detained on Wednesday evening after being shot within the foot in Qalqilya, Wafa reported.
