[En direct] Israel ready to defend itself against accusations of genocide in Gaza

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Israel will respond this Friday to what the country calls “atrocious” allegations that it is committing “genocide” in Gaza, in a landmark legal case before the UN’s highest court. On the ground, bombings continue on the Gaza Strip and tension is increasing in the Red Sea. The United States and the United Kingdom have carried out strikes on Houthi rebels in Yemen, who in recent weeks have increased attacks on commercial shipping in the Red Sea in “solidarity” with Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.

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What you must remember :

■ New hearings, Thursday January 11, and this Friday (between 9 a.m. and 12 p.m. UT), before the International Court of Justice in The Hague (ICJ), in the Netherlands. South Africa contacted this United Nations judicial body last month to ask it to rule on possible acts of “genocide” in the Gaza Strip.

■ South Africa asked the World Court on Thursday toorder Israel to immediately suspend its operation military in Gaza, where she claims that Israel has a genocidal intent » against Palestinian civilians. Israel will respond to the allegations on Friday.

■ The United States and the United Kingdom led this night strikes against Houthi-linked targets in Yemen, the first since this Iran-backed group began its attacks on shipping in the Red Sea. Targets of the US-British strikes include radar and drone and missile infrastructure, according to the US government.

■ The American Secretary of State Antony Blinken completed regional tour of four days. A rapprochement between Israel and the Arab countries, the majority of which do not recognize it, would be “ the best way toisolate Iran and its auxiliaries “, he said Thursday in Cairo.

■ The Israeli bombardments in the south and center of the Gaza Strip continue despite Israel’s promise to move to a more targeted campaign to preserve civilians and to withdraw part of its troops from the Palestinian enclave.

■ According to a report announced Thursday January 11 by the Hamas Ministry of Health, 23,469 people were killed in Gaza since the start of the war on October 7. The majority of the dead are women, adolescents and children. There are almost 60 000 injured.


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5:00 a.m.: Houthis hit in Yemen

The Israel-Hamas conflict moves this Friday to Yemen where the United States and the United Kingdom carried out overnight strikes against the Houthi rebels, who have been threatening international maritime traffic in the Red Sea for weeks in “solidarity” with Palestinians in Gaza.

Read here[Direct] US-British strikes target Houthis in Yemen

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