Updates
29 December 2023
South Africa invoked the Genocide Convention and initiated proceedings at the International Court of Justice on Friday in a significant step towards ending the relentless bloodshed in Gaza.
“The Israeli army has executed dozens of older Palestinians in the Gaza Strip in direct shooting operations,” according to the Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor. More than 1,000 older people have been killed by Israel in Gaza, representing one in 25 of all deaths in the genocide.
“The situation at Nasser Medical Complex in Khan Younis, southern Gaza, is horrifying. I work as a doctor here and have never seen anything like it”: a report from inside one of Gaza’s few functional hospitals.
Israel is attacking patients, physicians and hospitals across the Gaza Strip. The World Health Organization says that only 13 hospitals – out of 36, before Israel’s genocidal attacks – are partially functioning.
Khaled El-Hissy, now in Jordan, recalls being evacuated from Gaza’s Turkish-Palestinian Friendship Hospital, where he was being treated for leukemia: “Israeli snipers were shooting at anyone who tried to leave. They even shot at ambulances.”
The US military said that its warships shot down a drone and an anti-ship ballistic missile fired from Yemen, as Ansarullah continues its Red Sea attacks in support of Gaza.