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Gaza: International Court of Justice (ICJ) orders Israel to halt military operations in Rafah following a request by South Africa (news.un.org)

The International Court of Justice (ICJ) on Friday issued new provisional measures that order Israel to immediately end military operations in Rafah in southern Gaza and to open the governate’s border crossing for urgent aid deliveries....

Gaza’s new terror: Booby-trapped cans of food for the unwary (news.un.org)

Cross posted from: https://beehaw.org/post/13543053...

Israel-Palestine war: Mass graves in Gaza show victims’ hands were tied, says UN rights office (news.un.org)

An investigation in war-torn Gaza found hundreds of bodies “buried deep in the ground and covered with waste” over the weekend at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, central Gaza, and at Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City in the north. A total of 283 bodies were recovered at Nasser Hospital, of which 42 were identified....

Israel-Palestine: UN appeals for humanitarian access to Gaza "where malnourished babies are slowly dying while the world watches" (news.un.org)

"The child deaths we feared are here,” Adele Khodr, UNICEF Regional Director for the Middle East and North Africa, said in a statement....

Arbitrary executions, sexual assault in detention: UN experts call for probe into alleged violations against Palestinian women and girls by Israeli soldiers (news.un.org)

"We are shocked by reports of the deliberate targeting and extrajudicial killing of Palestinian women and children in places where they sought refuge, or while fleeing. Some of them were reportedly holding white pieces of cloth when they were killed by the Israeli army or affiliated forces,” the experts said....