At the International Court of Justice, South Africa has laid out a detailed and chilling case, accusing Israel of committing genocide in Gaza. It calls Israel’s military campaign a long and systematic pattern of intentional genocidal acts meant to displace and kill Palestinians. Later on Friday, Israel will defend itself against those accusations. Some Israeli…
Cross-border fire is continuing between Israeli forces and Hezbollah fighters in Lebanon. The Israeli town of Kiryat Shimona took a direct hit on Thursday. It comes as US envoy Amos Hochstein is visiting Lebanon’s Prime Minister Najib Mikati in an attempt to mediate a solution as tensions escalate on the border. Al Jazeera’s Laura Khan…
People trapped in Gezira state in Sudan are accusing the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces of targeting civilians. The RSF has been fighting Sudan’s army since April last year, and took over the state in December. That led to the displacement of about half a million people, but many more remain in the state, unable to…
Argentina’s annual inflation has surged past the 200 mark to 211 percent. The country has now outpaced Venezuela, where years of hyperinflation and economic woes have provoked a mass exodus. But Argentina’s new far-right President Javier Milei says things will get better but not before they get worse. Al Jazeera’s Latin America Editor Lucia Newman…
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Michael Lynk, a Canadian law professor, says his “educated guess” is that Israel will show footage from the Hamas attack, arguing that it is defending itself in Gaza. “When you’re in a weak position as a lawyer representing a client, you want to try to argue your very best facts and try to get the…
The NGO’s executive director, Tirana Hassan, told Al Jazeera that the organisation had documented war crimes being committed in Gaza since the start of the war, “including the crime of starvation as a weapon of war” as well as “collective punishment through the restriction to basic food, water, fuel, and life-saving humanitarian assistance, which has…
The United States and Britain started carrying out strikes against targets linked to Houthis in Yemen, four US officials report, the first-time strikes have been launched against the Iran-backed group since it started targeting international shipping in the Red Sea late last year. Subscribe to our channel http://bit.ly/AJSubscribe Follow us on Twitter https://twitter.com/AJEnglish Find us…
Israel’s Prime Minister Netanyahu has blasted the opening of the genocide case against his country at the ICJ, saying that the procedure shows an “upside-down world” in which Israel is “fighting terrorists, fighting lies”. “The hypocrisy of South Africa screams to the heavens,” Netanyahu said. “Where was South Africa when millions were killed and displaced…
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