In this case, you can read about: UN court Food shortage Demonstrations Mass exodus According to Reuters, 150 Palestinians were injured in the attack. This is reported by the Hamas-controlled health authorities in the area. The Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) say they are investigating the matter. On the night of Friday, the Al-Nuseirat refugee camp in the center of the Gaza Strip was also attacked by an Israeli airstrike which claimed six lives, according to Palestinian health authorities. 1. UN court The International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague will decide on Friday whether there is a danger of genocide in Gaza. Then Israel can, among other things, receive an order to stop hostilities. – The possibilities are many. The question is how far they are willing to go. Are they asking for a complete ceasefire, are they asking for a break in the fighting in a limited area, or are they asking for humanitarian emergency aid to be allowed in? speculates Carola Lingaas. She is an associate professor in jurisprudence at VID University of Applied Sciences. – If they agree to a cease-fire, will Israel care about it? – I would like to believe that Israel cares and takes the matter very seriously. They have lined up lawyers of a high caliber in The Hague. They are concerned about the matter, because it applies to the West after all. Israel needs a little goodwill from some very influential states, says Lingaas. Tale Hungnes, international manager of Caritas Norway, returned home from Jerusalem on Friday. There, the aid organization has visited the West Bank and their partners who work with humanitarian aid in Gaza. – The message we have received from absolutely everyone we have spoken to is that the situation in Gaza is worse than ever. The destruction, the number of people killed and the scale of the destruction are completely without comparison, she wrote to news in an e-mail. She fears that further escalation will possibly make the situation even worse. – In addition to great concern for the catastrophic humanitarian situation unfolding in Gaza, the mood among Israelis and Palestinians is both tense and explosive ahead of today’s fence in The Hague, she says. – If the court were to reject the case, we are afraid that it will explode further. We are already facing a man-made and threatened famine, writes the head of foreign affairs. 2. Food shortages After the Hamas attack on 7 October, Israel imposed a full blockade on Gaza, where neither food, water, medicines nor fuel could enter. The World Health Organization describes the food situation in the north of the Gaza Strip as “absolutely appalling”. They tell of starving and desperate people who need nourishment. If the war continues and sufficient emergency aid does not arrive, the Gaza Strip will experience famine in the coming months. A UN report says so. Famine is the most serious phase in the UN’s system for monitoring food insecurity. According to the forecast, half of Gaza’s 2.3 million inhabitants will probably starve before 7 February. 3. Mobilizing The UN human rights office says on Friday that cold and rainy weather make Gaza “completely uninhabitable”. On Thursday, residents of the south of the Gaza Strip gathered in Khan Younis to demonstrate. Most of Gaza’s 2.3 million inhabitants now reside in either Khan Younis or Rafah, furthest south towards the border with Egypt. They have a clear demand for Hamas and Israel: to end the war. According to the Israeli newspaper Haaretz, the protesters shouted to both Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar with demands for a ceasefire. Eyewitnesses told the news agency DPA that several tens of people took part in the protests. Haaretz writes that several hundred turned up. In the last week, Israel has intensified its attack on the largest city in the south of the Gaza Strip. According to Palestinian health authorities, at least 50 Palestinians in Khan Younis have been killed in the last 24 hours. In total, 183 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip in the last 24 hours. 4. Mass flight Since the war broke out, several hundred thousand have fled south from Gaza City to Khan Younis, on orders from the Israeli Defense Forces. The displaced are staying in the area which is now being bombed. In the last week, the inhabitants have once again had to flee from the fighting. Israel claims that Khan Younis serves as Hamas’s headquarters because several key leaders come from the city. Over 26,000 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli attacks against the Gaza Strip since the war broke out on 7 October last year, according to figures from Palestinian health authorities.
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