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09-01-2024
GAZA CITY/ RAMALLAH/ BERLIN: Seventy-three Palestinians killed and 99 wounded in attacks by Israel in Gaza over the past 24 hours, the Health Ministry says.
The whereabouts of 600 patients and health workers from Gaza’s Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital is “unknown”, WHO says.
Speaking from Qatar, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken says he will raise with Israel the “need to do everything possible” to increase the flow of aid.
At least 22,835 people have been killed including 9,600 children in Israeli attacks on Gaza since October 7. About 1,139 people were killed in Hamas’s October 7 attack on Israel.
Meanwhile, Israel must protect Palestinians in the occupied West Bank, German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock said in Ramallah.
Her comments come after she also highlighted the need to ease up on the bombardment of Palestinians in Gaza.
“It is increasingly clear the Israeli army must do more to protect civilians in Gaza. It must find ways to fight Hamas without harming large numbers of Palestinians,” she said.
“The suffering of many innocent people cannot go on like this. We need less intensive management of operations.”
However, hundreds of people protested in Minneapolis in front of Minnesota Representative Amy Klobuchar’s office as she supports the continuation of Israel’s war.
Fake body bags, banners and posters of children killed by Israel covered the entrance to the office.
The Muslims of America for Palestine movement, the organizer of the rally, said it continues to remind Klobuchar and every American politician that the blood of Gaza is stained on their hands.
Protesters chanted against Klobuchar saying they didn’t want their money financing the Gaza genocide, and the whole world should join South Africa in prosecuting Israel at the International Court of Justice.
On the other side, Aharon Barak, Israel’s former Supreme Court chief justice, will serve as a judge at the International Court of Justice on a panel to hear South Africa’s genocide case against Israel.
Barak, 87, is an influential Israeli jurist with international renown and a Holocaust survivor. He will be among the judges deciding whether to issue an interim order demanding Israel halt its war. Such orders are legally binding but not always enforceable.
The ICJ court this week will begin hearing South Africa’s allegations against Israel that it is committing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza. (Int’l Monitoring Desk)
