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The United States and the United Kingdom have carried out retaliatory strikes against several Houthi sites in Yemen. Here is the latest:
Here’s how things are going on Friday January 12, 2024:
Latest updates and human impact
- Thursday was the first day of hearings at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) into the South African genocide case against Israel.
- On Friday, Israel will respond in The Hague to allegations of genocide made by South African lawyers.
- U.S. officials said U.S. and British militaries used Tomahawk missiles and submarine-launched warplanes on Thursday to bomb at least a dozen sites used by Yemen’s Houthi rebel group in an attempted retaliation. .
- An Israeli airstrike on a residential house killed at least nine Palestinian civilians and injured several others in the Shawka neighborhood east of the southern Gaza town of Rafah, the news agency reported Palestinian Wafa.
- Local sources say an Israeli airstrike on a vehicle killed at least eight Palestinian civilians Thursday evening in the Al-Manara neighborhood of Khan Younis in southern Gaza, Wafa reported.
- An Israeli bomb killed at least five people after hitting a house in the al-Masha’la neighborhood west of the central Gaza town of Deir el-Balah, according to the news agency Shehab.
- After nearly 100 days of war in Gaza, at least 10,000 children – one percent of the Gaza Strip’s total child population – have been killed, according to a new report from Save The Children.
Diplomacy
- A diplomatic source told Tel Aviv Tribune that Russia had sent a message to members of the United Nations Security Council saying it considered the use of force in Yemen a violation of the United Nations Charter.
- Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Nasser Kanaani on Friday expressed Iran’s condemnation of the American and British attacks on Houthi sites.
- “These attacks constitute a blatant violation of Yemen’s sovereignty and territorial integrity, as well as a violation of international law,” he said.
- The High Representative of Foreign Affairs of the European Union, Josep Borrell, made a Message Thursday, criticizing statements by Israeli officials calling for the “voluntary displacement” of Palestinians in Gaza.
- Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh addressed a rally in Ramallah’s Nelson Mandela Square on Thursday, applauding South Africa for filing a lawsuit against Israel at the ICJ.
Raids in the West Bank
- Continued clashes were reported between Israeli forces and Palestinian groups in the Nur Shams camp, east of the town of Tulkarem in the occupied West Bank.
- Intense clashes were also reported on Thursday between Israeli forces and Palestinians when forces surrounded a house following a military raid on the village of Jaba, located south of Jenin, Wafa reported.
- In the Jaba raid, Israeli forces shot dead a former prisoner, Majdy Fashafsha, 37, after searching his house on Thursday, Wafa reported.
- Settlers on Thursday bulldozed a large area of land belonging to Palestinian residents of Masafer Yatta, located south of Hebron, Wafa reported.