Right here’s how issues stand on Thursday, January 11, 2024:
Newest updates and human impression
- UN’s high courtroom, the Worldwide Courtroom of Justice (ICJ), will open hearings on Thursday in South Africa’s genocide case filed towards Israel. You’ll be able to observe the developments on our dwell web page.
- The Israeli navy advised journalists on Wednesday that it discovered proof that captives have been current in an underground tunnel. Navy spokesperson Daniel Hagari didn’t provide particulars on what precisely was discovered within the tunnel, nor did he say when the captives have been there or determine them, the AP reported.
- Enough help is coming into Gaza and there’s no meals scarcity, Israeli official Moshe Tetro mentioned.
- Solely three of 21 deliberate help deliveries to north Gaza have gone forward because the starting of January, the UN humanitarian company (OCHA) mentioned on Wednesday.
- On January 10, the Palestine Energy Era Firm’s turbines have been caught north of Nuseirat refugee camp and all 4 of its turbines caught on fireplace, OCHA reported.
Diplomacy
- The UN Safety Council, backed by 11 members, handed a decision on Wednesday demanding Yemen’s Houthis finish assaults on ships within the Pink Sea and free the Japanese-operated Galaxy Chief which was seized in November. China, Russia, Algeria and Mozambique abstained whereas no member voted towards the US and Japan-led decision.
- US Secretary of State Antony Blinken met Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to hunt governance reforms as he concluded his fourth diplomatic journey to the Center East because the Gaza battle started. Sources report that this assembly was tense with arguments and disagreements, reported Al Jazeera’s Hamdah Salhut.
- John Kirby, the White Home nationwide safety spokesperson, denied that Israel has focused journalists in Gaza, including that the US continues to “stand by the safety of journalists”.
- The World Well being Group mentioned on Wednesday its help provides and groups have been prepared, nevertheless it was unable to ship them to southern Gaza due to lack of entry. Israeli authorities have repeatedly refused to permit UN help groups to ship help inside Gaza.
West Financial institution raids and settlers
- Al Jazeera Arabic colleagues and native media have reported ongoing raids all through the occupied West Financial institution, together with within the cities of Jericho, Qalqilya and el-Bireh.
- Israeli gunfire injured three younger Palestinian males on Wednesday night throughout confrontations within the village of Aboud, positioned northwest of Ramallah within the central West Financial institution, Palestinian information company Wafa reported.
- A younger Palestinian man succumbed to accidents on Wednesday night time. He was shot on Monday by Israeli forces in Ramallah, Wafa reported.
- Israeli settlers set fireplace to a Palestinian-owned agricultural room and olive bushes on Wednesday night exterior the city of Kafr ad-Dik, within the occupied West Financial institution province of Salfit, Wafa reported.
