Israel’s War on Gaza: List of Key Events, Day 100 | Israel’s War on Gaza News

Here’s how things go on Sunday January 14, 2024:

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• Yemen’s Houthi rebels say standing with the Palestinians is a “religious and moral duty”, even as US-UK strikes target the group for its attacks on ships heading to Israel.
• The Palestinian football team will play its first Asian Cup match against a backdrop of war.
• An Israeli army strike hit a house in Rafah overnight, killing 14 Palestinians, including a two-year-old girl. More than 100 Palestinians have been killed there in the past 24 hours.
• Israel carried out night raids in various towns in the occupied West Bank, such as al-Mazra’a al-Gharbiya, northwest of Ramallah; Biddya, west of Salfit; and Nablus. Israel has also deployed bulldozers in Jenin, in the occupied West Bank.
• According to Wafa, two sisters of Saleh al-Arouri, the senior Hamas official killed in Beirut, are among many people arrested in raids in the West Bank.
• Israeli War Ministers Benny Gantz and Gadi Eisenkot attended a protest demanding the release of captives held by Hamas in Gaza.
• Two Paltel employees are among dozens of people killed in Israeli raids on Gaza on Saturday, as the strip faces another telecommunications outage.

100 days of war

• Pro-Palestinian protests took place around the world, with the US capital, Washington, DC, seeing its largest turnout yet.
• Tel Aviv also marks the 100th day since the October 7 Hamas attack with a 24-hour event that began in Tel Aviv at 6:29 a.m., the time the attack began.
• “No one will stop us. Not The Hague,” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in a speech marking 100 days of war on Gaza, referring to the genocide trial the country faces at the International Court of Justice (ICJ).
• The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has renewed calls for an end to the killings of journalists by the Israeli military as the war enters its 100th day.

Genocide trial

• Namibia said Germany had failed to “learn lessons from its horrific history” by supporting Israel at the ICJ, in hearings in which South Africa accused Tel Aviv of having perpetrated genocide against the Palestinians.
• The ICJ concluded its hearings in The Hague on Friday, where South Africa claimed “genocidal intent” against Israel in its war on Gaza, accusations that Israel rejected as “defamation.”