US carries out new strikes on Houthi targets in Yemen as Israel conducts extra raids in cities within the occupied West Financial institution.
Right here’s how issues stand on Saturday, January 13, 2024:
Newest updates
- Israeli forces have carried out raids throughout the occupied West Financial institution in a single day, in response to the Palestinian information company Wafa, storming and looking properties in Qalqilya metropolis, Bethlehem metropolis, Hebron and Nablus.
- Three Palestinian youngsters have been shot useless close to the unlawful “Adora” settlement in Hebron within the occupied West Financial institution, Wafa says.
- Martin Griffiths, the UN support chief, has mentioned that he was “deeply alarmed” by Israeli statements about “plans to encourage the mass switch” of Palestinian civilians from the Gaza Strip to 3rd international locations and once more referred to as for a ceasefire.
- Griffiths mentioned that Israel’s marketing campaign in Gaza has been waged “with nearly no regard for the influence on civilians”, including that Palestinians could not be capable of return to northern Gaza attributable to widespread destruction.
- Omar Shakir, Human Rights Watch’s (HRW) director of Palestine and Israel, has informed Al Jazeera that extra individuals in Gaza may now die attributable to illness and hunger than the Israeli army assaults because the state of affairs within the enclave is catastrophic.
- Medical employees in Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital wrestle to deal with sufferers after the ability ran out of gas, in response to the authorities in Gaza, plunging one of many final practical hospitals within the enclave into darkness and endangering the lives of sufferers.
- Israel’s bombardment of Gaza reduce off entry to telecommunications and web entry, complicating rescue efforts by medical employees.
Assaults on Yemen
- The USA has carried out a brand new air raid in opposition to Yemen’s Houthi forces, a day after a sequence of strikes it carried out along with the UK.
- President Joe Biden’s administration has promised to guard delivery within the Crimson Sea as he expressed concern over the influence of the Center East tensions on oil costs.
- Biden mentioned Washington would maintain concentrating on the Houthis in the event that they continued behaviour that he referred to as “outrageous.”
- US Ambassador to the UN, Linda Thomas-Greenfield, has mentioned the strikes by the US and Britain have been in step with worldwide regulation and the UN Constitution.
‘Genocide’ trial
- The Worldwide Courtroom of Justice (ICJ) wrapped up hearings in The Hague on Friday. South Africa claimed “genocidal intent” in opposition to Israel in its battle on Gaza. Israel rejected the costs as “libel”.
- Turkey is offering paperwork for the case, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan mentioned, including that he believes Israel will likely be convicted within the case.
- Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has mentioned that his nation doesn’t settle for the premise of South Africa’s case and the false accusations in opposition to Israel.
- Jordanian International Minister Ayman Safadi has voiced assist for the case and mentioned Amman was able to submit authorized paperwork and seem in court docket if the case proceeds.
