The UN Security Council will meet on Wednesday to consider the decision of the International Court of Justice (ICJ), the French presidency of the international body announced on Saturday January 27. The UN’s highest court called on Israel to do everything possible to prevent any act of genocide in the Gaza Strip, without commenting on whether Israel was actually committing such an act in the Palestinian enclave. Seized by South Africa, the ICJ also asked Israel to take “immediate measures” to enable the provision of assistance “which the Palestinians urgently need”. Follow our live stream.
A US strike after a Houthi attack on a British tanker. American forces struck a Houthi rebel site in Yemen early in the morning on Saturday January 27. Retaliation after these rebels claimed responsibility for an attack on a British tanker which “caught fire” in the Gulf of Aden. “At approximately 3:45 a.m. local time, the US Middle East Command (Centcom) conducted a strike against a Houthi anti-ship missile that was preparing to be launched into the Red Sea.”he announced on X, specifying that this missile presented a “imminent threat” for American destroyers and merchant ships in the region.
“There is virtually no health system left in Gaza”, denounces Doctors Without Borders. “The surgical capacity of the Nasser hospital”the largest health facility in Khan Younes, in the south of the Gaza Strip, is now “almost non-existent”, lamented the NGO. THE “a few members of the medical staff who remained at the hospital have to deal with very low stocks of medical equipment”added MSF.
Fierce fighting in southern Gaza. Thousands of civilians have fled Khan Yunis, located in the southern Gaza Strip, in recent days. The army claims to have surrounded the hometown of Yahya Sinouar, the leader of Hamas in Gaza, considered the architect of the October 7 attack. Not far away, in Rafah, tens of thousands of displaced people are crowded into a very small area against the closed border with Egypt, according to an AFP journalist.