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01-05-2025
GAZA STRIP/ THE HAGUE: Residents of Nuseirat in central Gaza describe an “earthquake” as an Israeli attack on a building killed at least eight people. At least 35 have been killed across Gaza in the past 24 hours, Gaza’s Health Ministry says.
Day three of International Court of Justice hearings on Israel’s humanitarian obligations to Palestinians saw the United States and Hungary defend Israel and discredit the court and the UN as biased.
The United Nations has called for “concerted” action to stop the “humanitarian catastrophe” in Gaza as Israel’s total blockade enters its 60th day.
The United Kingdom’s defence ministry says British forces participated in a joint operation with the US military against a Houthi target in Yemen.
Israel’s war on Gaza has killed at least 52,400 Palestinians and wounded 118,014 others, according to the enclave’s Health Ministry. The Gaza Government Media Office updated the death toll to more than 61,700, saying thousands of people missing under the rubble are presumed dead. An estimated 1,139 people were killed in Israel during Hamas-led attacks on October 7, 2023, and more than 200 were taken captive. The death toll since early this morning in Gaza has increased to 29, medical sources tell media, as Israeli attacks on the enclave continue.
Hamas’s armed wing has said it engaged in clashes with Israeli forces in the Beit Hanoon area of northern Gaza.
Palestinian prisoner support groups have appealed to the WHO to draw attention to poor conditions in Israeli prisons, which they say has led to an “unprecedented rate of deaths in custody”.
Israeli forces have been deployed to the town of Beita, south of Nablus in the occupied West Bank, after reports that two soldiers were injured by an explosion during a raid.
A Palestinian student activist at Columbia University in the US, Mohsen Mahdawi, has been released from detention. Mahdawi is challenging the Trump administration’s effort to deport him as part of its crackdown on pro-Palestine advocacy.
A US official addressing the International Court of Justice (ICJ) on Wednesday defended Israel’s attacks on United Nations agencies in Gaza as potentially lawful, as Israel’s devastating ban on humanitarian aid to the enclave nears two months.
On the third day of hearings by the World Court in The Hague examining Israel’s legal humanitarian obligations in occupied Palestine, the US rejected the opinion held by the majority of states that Israel has breached international law in its attacks on UN and international organizations during its war on Gaza since October 2023.
The current ICJ proceedings have been prompted by Israel banning the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (Unrwa) in October.
The ban sparked global outrage and calls for Israel to be ejected from the United Nations due to accusations that it violated the founding charter, particularly the privileges and immunities enjoyed by UN agencies.
Opposing the arguments delivered by the UN’s top legal official on Monday and by 12 states that have also spoken to the court this week, the US official said that international law “does not impose any unqualified obligations on an occupying power” with respect to humanitarian assistance provided by the UN, international organizations and third states.
“In the law of occupation, military and humanitarian interests converge,” said Joshua Simmons, the senior bureau official of the office of the legal adviser at the US Department of State. (Int’l Monitoring Desk)
