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28-01-2024
GAZA CITY: Gaza’s Health Ministry says 174 Palestinians were killed and 310 wounded in the enclave in 24 hours.
Israel intensifies bombings in Gaza, even as the International Court of Justice ordered it to take steps to prevent acts of genocide.
In its highly anticipated interim decision, the court also said it has jurisdiction to rule in South Africa’s genocide case against Israel but did not call for an immediate ceasefire.
Attacks on healthcare facilities continue in southern Gaza, with Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis completely losing power; in Rafah, three people were killed in an attack on a residential home.
At least 26,257 people have been killed and 64,797 wounded in Israeli attacks on Gaza since October 7. The death toll in Israel from the October 7 Hamas attacks stands at 1,139.
Georgios Petropoulos, the director of the United Nations Office for Humanitarian Affairs in Gaza, says the months-long war has left 2.2 million people at risk of starvation in the Gaza Strip.
“Everyone in Gaza needs aid now and the war must stop,” he told media. “We can only meet a third of the population’s need for clean drinking water.
Medical and humanitarian facilities in Gaza must be protected, he added, and stressed the need for humanitarian aid to flow freely into the blockaded territory.
Ai Weiwei, the famed Chinese dissident artist, has spoken to media about being censored for his views on Gaza and life after detention.
In November, his London show was cancelled after he tweeted criticism of US-Israel relations in the early days of Israel’s war on Gaza.
Several years ago, Ai had the opportunity to witness the situation in Gaza firsthand.
“In 2016, during the making of Human Flow, I travelled to Gaza. Despite difficulties, I persisted and eventually obtained military permission from Israel, granting me the permit to enter and exit Gaza,” he said. “While in Gaza, I witnessed the lives of its people, including children, women, and ordinary citizens, who grapple with survival under the weight of daily and unjust violence.
“Even as someone who grew up in an extremely authoritarian Communist country, such conditions were almost unbelievable to me,” Ai said, adding that the “suppression and humiliation were experiences beyond my previous imagination. The stark reality of such a confinement in the 21st century left me utterly astonished.” (Int’l News Desk)
