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THE HAGUE/CAIRO, March 28 (Reuters) – The World Court on Thursday unanimously directed Israel, which South Africa had accused of committing genocide in Gaza, to take all necessary and appropriate steps to guarantee the Palestinian population of the enclave has access to basic food supplies and to stop the spread of famine.
The Hamas leaders in Gaza, however, insisted that a ceasefire was required to end the humanitarian catastrophe.
The International Court of Justice’s ruling was made while Israeli forces and Palestinian fighters engaged in close-quarters fighting near Gaza’s Al Shifa Hospital. Islamic Jihad and Hamas’ armed wings claimed to have fired rockets and mortar shells at Israeli tanks and soldiers.
People living in the coastal enclave are facing worsening conditions, according to the court’s judges.
“The court notes that the threat of starvation is no longer the only one facing Palestinians in Gaza. However, the judges stated in their ruling that famine was beginning.
South Africa asked for the additional measures as part of its legal defense against Israel for allegedly directing a genocide in Gaza.
Basem Naim, a top Hamas official, stated that Israel should be ordered to stop its military campaign in order to put an end to the suffering, as the ruling did not go far enough.
“We encourage fresh calls to put an end to the humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza, particularly in the northern Gaza Strip. However, we had hoped that the court had mandated a ceasefire as a definitive resolution to all the suffering that our people in Gaza endure,” Naim told Reuters.
The US. N. On Tuesday, the Security Council decided to demand the immediate and unconditional release of all hostages as well as an immediate ceasefire.
The United States did not veto the vote, but it did abstain.
Israel’s Foreign Ministry did not immediately provide a statement regarding the World Court decision.
According to Israel, efforts are being made to increase humanitarian organizations’ ability to reach Gaza by ship, aircraft, and overland.
According to Israeli officials, Hamas can end the conflict by submitting, freeing all of the hostages it is holding in Gaza, and turning over those responsible for the October 26 attacks for prosecution. Seven attacks.
The Israeli army claimed that even after storming the Al Shifa Hospital complex in Gaza City more than a week ago, it was still conducting operations there.
Since the operation began, its forces have killed about 200 gunmen “while preventing harm to civilians, patients, medical teams, and medical equipment,” according to the statement.
Raed Thabet, a Hamas quartermaster and one of the organization’s ten most senior members, was killed by troops working at the hospital, according to a televised statement released by chief Israeli military spokesperson Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari.
SHORTAGE OF FOOD, WATER, AND MEDICINE According to Gaza’s health ministry, patients and injured people were being detained in an Al Shifa administration building that lacked the necessary medical supplies.
Due to a lack of food, water, and medical attention, five patients have passed away since the Israeli raid started, according to the ministry run by Hamas.
When questioned concerning the army statement, Ismail Al-Thawabta, the director of the government media office run by Hamas in Gaza, claimed that the Israeli army was conducting “field killings and executions against hundreds of civilians.”.
“There are no military personnel inside the compound; everyone inside the Shifa complex is a civilian,” he said to Reuters.
Prior to the recent fighting, Al Shifa, the largest hospital in the Gaza Strip, was one of the few medical establishments in north Gaza that was even partially operational.
Also, it had been housing civilians who had been displaced.
Unverified social media footage showed the surrounding apartments burning or completely destroyed, and the surgery unit blackened by flames.
The militant groups Islamic Jihad and Hamas said in a statement that they jointly “bombed, with a barrage of mortar shells, gatherings of Israeli soldiers in the vicinity of the Al-Shifa Complex.”.
Israeli officials claim that they are pursuing Hamas militants who seek refuge in residential complexes and medical facilities.
The Hamas rejects this.
Since October, Israel’s military offensive in the Gaza Strip has resulted in at least 32,552 Palestinian deaths and 74,980 injuries. 7, the health ministry of the territory announced on Thursday.
It is estimated that thousands more people are buried beneath the debris in Gaza, where there are 2 million people living. Many of them are at risk of starvation.
According to Israeli tallies, Hamas militants breached the border and tore through communities in southern Israel, killing 1,200 people and kidnapping 253 hostages before the conflict broke out.
TWO MORE HOUSES SAID TO HAVE BESIEGED In Rafah, where over a million people have sought refuge, health officials reported that at least 12 people had died in an Israeli airstrike on a house.
Planned is an Israeli ground offensive into Rafah, located in the extreme south of the enclave, where Israel believes the majority of Hamas fighters are currently taking refuge.
The United States, the country’s closest ally and primary arms supplier, is against the attack, claiming it would injure civilians who have sought safety there too severely.
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