YoIsrael affirmed this Friday that its military operations in Rafah, in the extreme south of the Gaza Strip, do not pose any “risk of destruction of the Palestinian civilian population”after the highest judicial body of the UN ordered him to stop them.
(In context: The ICJ, the highest UN court, orders Israel to stop military operations in Rafah, Gaza)
Furthermore, despite the ruling of the International Court of Justice (ICJ), which demanded an immediate halt to its offensive in this city bordering Egypt, the Israeli army has intensified its attacks in several areas of the city.
”Israeli occupation planes launched a violent bombardment against several areas of the city of Rafah. The bombing targeted the streets and homes of citizens in the center of the Shaboura camp in Rafah, causing casualties among citizens,” the Palestinian news agency Wafa reported.
Israeli artillery also attacked the Abu Yoused Al Najjar hospital on which the Gazans remaining in this city increasingly depend, since the other hospital center in this area, the Kuwaiti, could stop working in the next few hours due to the damage. suffered as a result of Israeli attacks.
The Israeli Army, for its part, has not yet commented on any of these attacks.
The ICJ this Friday also imposed on Israel the reopening of the Rafah border crossing, closed since the arrival of its tanks, and the entry “without impediments” of human rights agencies to the Gaza Strip with a mission to investigate alleged crimes of war.
Netanyahu talks with his ministers after ICJ ruling
“The conversation will involve, along with professionals, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, the Minister of Strategic Affairs, the Minister of Justice, the Minister of Defense, and the Ombudsman,” indicated a statement from the Prime Minister’s Office.
The National Security Advisor, Tzachi Hanegbi, will also participate in the telephone meeting; and the Attorney General, Gali Baharav-Miara.
At the moment, there is no official reaction from the Prime Minister’s office to the ICJ’s decision, but there is from the Minister of National Security, the far-right Itamar Ben Gvir, who pointed out that the only Israeli response to the ruling must be “the conquest of Rafah, the increase in military pressure and the total crushing of Hamas, until achieving total victory in the war.”
The only Israeli response to the ruling must be “the conquest of Rafah, the increase in military pressure and the total crushing of Hamas, until achieving total victory in the war.”
Gantz, one of the opposition leaders who joined the emergency Executive after the war, stressed the Israel’s commitment to “continue to operate wherever and whenever necessary – including in Rafah – in accordance with international law and safeguarding the civilian population to the greatest extent possible”.
The leader of the Israeli opposition, Yair Lapid, considers that the decision of the court in The Hague is “unfair” because it does not take into account that the fighting in Rafah seeks to achieve the return of the kidnapped people, who are suspected of remaining there.
“There is no country in the world that would react strongly to an attack like this. “This verdict could and should have been avoided.”he added on his X account.
*With information from EFE and AFP
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