Australia, Canada and Italy suspended their funding to the UN agency on Saturday January 27 responsible for aiding Palestinian civilians (UNRWA), which is in the sights of the Israeli authorities. According to them, some of its employees were involved in the bloody attack carried out on October 7 by Hamas on Israeli soil, at the origin of the war.
These three countries thus follow the United States, which announced on Friday “temporarily suspend” any future funding to UNRWA. Australian Foreign Minister Penny Wong said “deeply concerned” by the accusations against UNRWA, on the social network Canada suspended “temporarily (…) all financing” while awaiting the results of a “thorough investigation into these accusations”he wrote on X. Follow our live stream.
The UN Security Council will meet on Wednesday to consider the decision of the International Court of Justice. 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”.
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.