The war in Gaza is “tragic” but there is not any “genocide”, Israel said on Friday, May 17, before the International Court of Justice (ICJ). “South Africa presents to the Court for the fourth time a picture completely disconnected from the facts and circumstances,” declared Gilad Noam, representing the government of Benjamin Netanyahu. He responds before the highest UN court to Petoria’s allegations that Israel intensified a campaign “genocidal” with its military operation in Rafah. Follow our live stream.
A first load of humanitarian aid arriving. Intended for the Gazan population, this load began to be unloaded Friday morning by the temporary jetty that the army had finished docking the day before on the coast of the Gaza Strip, the American army said on X.
Israel to intensify its operations in Rafah. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu described “decisive” Thursday the battle of Rafah, after the announcement of a “intensification” military operations on the ground in this town in the south of the Gaza Strip despite international fears for the civilian population.
Arab summit calls for ceasefire. Arab leaders called for a ceasefire on Thursday “immediate” in the Gaza Strip and at the end “forced displacement” of the Palestinians, following a summit in Bahrain. They also said they would like the deployment of peacekeepers in the “occupied Palestinian territories”.