■ APPLICATION INSTITUTING PROCEEDINGS (.pdf)(84 pages) Press Release (.pdf)

At least 19 Palestinians, including small children, have been killed in the latest Israeli airstrikes on the southern city of Rafah, as the regime continues its brutal war against the besieged Gaza Strip. | According to local sources and video footage verified by Al Jazeera, the civilians were killed after Israeli warplanes targeted a house east of Rafah on Wednesday. ● Earlier, footage showed the bodies of three children killed in the Israeli attack arriving at Abu Youssef Al Najjar Hospital in the city. Rafah has been packed with tens of thousands of displaced civilians. Israeli airstrikes have been pounding locations across Gaza, including southern parts that Israel had declared as safe zones. Homes, hospitals, cemetery targeted: Meanwhile, the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) says the occupying regime’s artillery has targeted residential buildings, a cemetery and hospitals in Khan Yunis over the past two days, as the southern Gaza Strip is reeling under heavy Israeli bombardment. “Initial reports and video footage show that much of the al-Namsawi cemetery was destroyed and graves empty with some corpses reportedly missing,” the OCHA said.

■ 20 Palestinians killed in deliberate Israeli strikes on crowds: Rafah (Al Mayadeen)
■ Day 104: Israeli Aggression Rages on, Devastating Gaza’s Innocent Lives (Al Manar TV)
■ APPLICATION INSTITUTING PROCEEDINGS (.pdf)(84 pages) Press Release (.pdf)

Labor Party accuses government of not prioritizing return of hostages taken on Oct. 7 | The Israeli left-wing Labor Party said on Wednesday that it will present a proposal to the Knesset to withdraw confidence from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government due to its failure to release hostages held in Gaza. 💬 "It has been 103 days since the kidnapping of our children by Hamas and the government is torn and does not care at all," the party said in a statement on X. "There is no confidence in a government that does not prioritize the return of its hostages," it added, calling for "overthrowing" it. Led by former Minister of Transportation Merav Michaeli, the Labor Party has four seats in the 120-member Knesset. Withdrawing confidence requires at least 61 lawmakers to vote in favor of the proposal. The government led by Netanyahu has a majority of 64 seats, making it difficult for the proposal to pass.

■ Zionist media to settlers: Get prepared for civil war (Yemen News Agency)
■ Lipid’s Party: Bibi’s Gov’t Can’t Continue to Exist (Alahed News)
■ Mother of captive in Gaza says IOF killed her son, not Hamas (01/18/24)

The Yemeni Armed Forces announced on Wednesday that it had targeted an American ship in support of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, who have come under a genocidal “Israeli” aggression that enjoys full-on support on the part of the United States. | The forces’ spokesman Brigadier General Yahya Saree identified the target as “American Genco Picardy ship” and the whereabouts of the operation as the Gulf of Aden. Saree [...] confirmed that “We continue to prevent ‘Israeli’ ships or those heading to the occupied ports of Palestine until aggression ceases, and blockade on Gaza is lifted.”

■ Worst yet to come for Red Sea crisis says Freightos (Ship Technology)
■ Houthi Rebels Strike Israeli City of Eilat (novinite.com)
■ US launches new strikes on Houthi targets in Yemen (Al Jazeera)
■ Exclusive: IRGC behind attack on Israeli ships in Indian Ocean (Al Mayadeen)
■ US 'unreliable' to protect international maritime trade, FT says (Al Mayadeen)
■ The US, Israel Have Lost Battlefield Control – Houthis Have Attacked US Destroyer, Hit Greek-US Owned Bulker; Iran Has Hit US Base in Kurdish Capital, Erbil (Yves Smith)

The Israeli military has revealed that the cause of death of two Israeli occupation forces could not be determined, prompting accusations of the IOF "mistakenly" killing their own. | Amid obscurity, Sherman's mother, Maya, accused the IOF of killing her son. 💬 “The results of the investigation: Ron was indeed murdered. Not by Hamas. Think more in the direction of Auschwitz and the showers but without Nazis and without Hamas as the cause. No accidental shooting, no report, premeditated murder, bombings with poisonous gases,” she wrote on social media. The IOF was accused of gassing a tunnel in which Sherman was located, causing suffocation and poisoning, and ultimately his death. 💬 "They found that he also had several crushed fingers, apparently due to his desperate attempts to get out of the poison grave that the IDF buried in him when he tried to breathe air, but he only breathed IDF poison," she went on saying.

■ What’s Israel’s Hannibal Directive? A former Israeli soldier tells all (Al Jazeera)

Islamabad has accused Tehran of ignoring “serious concerns” over militants operating from its territory | Pakistan has said it launched a series of airstrikes on “terrorist hideouts” in southern Iran, claiming the “precision” operation neutralized several militants. The attack comes after Tehran acknowledged its own raids on another terrorist group based in Pakistan. ● Meanwhile, Iranian officials, cited by local media, said that explosions in the Sistan-o-Balochistan province had killed seven non-Iranian nationals, including three women and four children. Tehran has also demanded an “immediate explanation” from Pakistan about the strikes, Iranian broadcaster Press TV reported, citing an unnamed informed source.

■ Iran condemns Pakistan’s border attack, summons Pakistani chargé d'affaires (PressTV)
■ Pakistan Launches Strikes on Iran's Saravan Region, Sistan, Balochistan Provinces - Reports (Sputnik News)
■ Pakistan attacks ‘terrorist hideouts’ in Iran (Al Jazeera)(Video)
■ India reacts to escalation between Iran and Pakistan (RT.com)