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Israel is expected to submit a report to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) on Monday on the measures it has taken to prevent possible genocide in Gaza. This is to assess whether Israel complied with the provisional measures ordered by the ICJ on January 26. South Africa, which brought the case, says Israel has failed to comply with the measures. “I believe the rulings of the court have been ignored,” said Foreign Minister Naledi Pandor. Here are the measures the ICJ ordered, as we look at whether Israel followed through in the past month since the ruling. What provisional…

An Al Jazeera investigation has shown three Israeli tanks around the car where a six-year-old girl was killed after hours of pleading for help. However, Israel’s army denied this on Saturday, saying its troops were not in the area on January 29, the day Hind Rajab and her family were killed. Here’s the whole story, what Israel claims and how Al Jazeera investigators put Israeli tanks at the scene of the killing: What happened to Hind? Hind’s story travelled around the world when a phone recording of what’s now understood to be her and her family’s final moments went viral…

Berlin, Germany – Late last week, lawyers in Germany filed charges against some of the country’s most senior politicians, including Chancellor Olaf Scholz, accusing them of “aiding and abetting genocide” in the Gaza Strip. The case on behalf of German Palestinians who have family in the besieged Strip centres around the issue of alleged complicity, given Germany’s continued support of Israel despite the incredibly high civilian death toll amid incessant bombardment. Almost 30,000 Palestinians have been killed by Israel since October 7, in a campaign that followed an attack in southern Israel which killed 1,139 people by Hamas, the group…

As it continues with its offensive, Israel is expected to submit a report to the ICJ regarding its actions in Gaza.Here’s how things stand on Monday, February 26, 2024: Fighting and humanitarian crisis The Israeli military shelled and fired on crowds of Palestinians waiting for food aid trucks to arrive in Gaza City, killing 10 people, the Wafa news agency reported. At least 15 people were injured in the attack, which occurred on the coastal road in northern Gaza City on Sunday evening. They have been transferred to the nearby al-Shifa Hospital. “Reports that a two-month-old baby died of hunger…

Rafah assault ‘inevitable’, says Israeli PM Netanyahu. Any deal with Hamas would only delay it.Israel is mulling an “evacuation plan” for civilians from unspecified parts of the Gaza Strip. A plan to evacuate people from “areas of fighting” was presented to the war cabinet by the military, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office said in a statement issued on Monday. The proposal comes as the Israeli army prepares for a long-threatened offensive on the southern city of Rafah, where more than 1.4 million people are trapped. The war cabinet discussed late on Sunday the “plan for evacuating the population from the…

Tech giant’s head of EU affairs says team will bring together experts from across the company.Facebook owner Meta has unveiled plans to launch a dedicated team to combat disinformation and harms generated by artificial intelligence (AI) ahead of the upcoming European Parliament elections. Marco Pancini, Meta’s head of EU affairs, said the “EU-specific Elections Operations Center” would bring together experts from across the company to focus on tackling misinformation, influence operations and risks related to the abuse of AI. “Ahead of the elections period, we will make it easier for all our fact-checking partners across the EU to find and…

Active duty airman reportedly said he did not want to be ‘complicit in genocide’ as he lit himself on fire.An active member of the United States military has set himself on fire outside the Israeli embassy in Washington, DC, according to officials, in an apparent act of protest against Israel’s devastating war on Gaza. The man, whose name was not immediately released, was rushed to the hospital on Sunday with “critical life-threatening injuries”, according to the US capital’s fire department. The agency said emergency responders rushed to the scene just before 1pm (18:00 GMT) in response to a “call for…

Tokyo’s benchmark Nikkei 225 last week made history by hitting its highest level in nearly 35 years.Japan’s stock market has hit a new high after bursting past its 1989 peak last week following decades of stagnation. Tokyo’s benchmark Nikkei 225 index rose nearly 0.7 percent in morning trading on Monday, extending a rally that has made Japanese stocks some of the hottest buys of the past year. Major gainers included Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group and pharmaceutical company Daiichi Sankyo. On Thursday, the Nikkei passed its all-time high of 38,915.8, reached in 1989 as Japan’s economy was on the precipice of…

Arab- and Muslim-Americans and some 60 percent of all Americans have wanted for months for US President Joe Biden to pressure Israel into accepting an immediate ceasefire in the war on Gaza. The White House has all but ignored them. So Arab- and Muslim-Americans decided to flex their political muscle by using their electoral power in critical swing states in this year’s presidential election. In December, community leaders from nine potential swing states met in Dearborn, Michigan under the slogan “Abandon Biden, ceasefire now”. They vowed not to vote for Biden in the November presidential polls unless he changes his policies…