Hatem Khaled News Today

Palestinian civilians in Gaza hoped that last week's ruling from the International Court of Justice might represent a turning point, but it has quickly turned into an argument about legal interpretation and world order.

Many Palestinians had taken refuge in the city from widespread bombardment

The Independent News Source

The small city on the southern edge of the Gaza Strip was sheltering more than a million Palestinians who fled Israeli assaults in other areas

Israel has pounded Rafah with air strikes and tank fire, pressing its offensive in the southern Gaza city despite international condemnation of an attack that sparked a blaze in a tent camp for the displaced, killing at least 45 people.

Officials on the ground in Gaza say that at least 12 of the people killed were women. The Israeli army denied it struck the area.

Dujarric said while the Kerem Shalom crossing remains open in principle, it's extremely difficult for aid organizations to access the deliveries from the Gaza side due to several factors.

It appears that all things are possible at the State Department. Israel can be besmirched and threatened, Hamas saved, and terror tolerated.

Israel considers that an order by the World Court to halt its military offensive on Rafah in southern Gaza allows room for some military action there, Israeli officials said. In an emergency ruling in South Africa's case accusing Israel of genocide, judges at the International Court of Justice ordered Israel on Friday to immediately halt

Pentagon has confirmed, none of the aid unloaded from the temporary pier, constructed off the Gaza coast, has reached people.