■ APPLICATION INSTITUTING PROCEEDINGS (.pdf)(84 pages) Press Release (.pdf)
■ The Expression of Hatred for Gentiles (Richard Edmondson/Nahida Izzat) (10/04/14)

The International Court of Justice [ICJ] at The Hague has confirmed that it will rule regarding measures requested in by South Africa in the case against the apartheid “Israeli” entity on Friday afternoon. | South Africa took “Israel” to the ICJ because of its continuous genocide against the Palestinian people, particularly during the latest aggression in Gaza. ● The South African delegation requested nine provisional measures from the court, which included ordering the “Israeli” army to end its military actions in Gaza while the case proceeds, aimed at forcing a ceasefire. ICJ Judge President Joan Donoghue had said, after the opening oral submissions, a decision would be rendered “as soon as possible.” Meanwhile, South Africa’s foreign minister, Naledi Pandor, is flying to The Hague to be present on Friday.

■ APPLICATION INSTITUTING PROCEEDINGS (.pdf)(84 pages) Press Release (.pdf)
■ The Expression of Hatred for Gentiles (Richard Edmondson/Nahida Izzat) (10/04/14)
■ Likud Ministers endorse colonisation plans for Gaza: ‘We will claim this land’ (MEM)

Israeli Heritage Minister Amichai Eliyahu has extremist rhetoric against Palestinians | Israel's far-right Heritage Minister Amichai Eliyahu on Wednesday renewed his call for striking the Gaza Strip with a “nuclear bomb.” “Even in The Hague they know my position,” The Times of Israel newspaper quoted Eliyahu as saying during a tour in the West Bank city of Hebron, in reference to his previous call for using nuclear weapons in the Gaza Strip. ● In November, Eliyahu said dropping a “nuclear bomb” on the Gaza Strip is “an option.” The hardline minister, who has extremist rhetoric against Palestinians, also called for encouraging Gaza's population to migrate from the enclave.

■ The Expression of Hatred for Gentiles (Richard Edmondson/Nahida Izzat) (10/04/14)

Jordanian Foreign Ministry calls for end to Israeli aggression, cease-fire in enclave | Jordan on Wednesday evening strongly decried the Israeli attack on a UN center sheltering displaced people in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, calling for an end to the Israeli aggression in the Palestinian enclave. 💬 “Israel's continued violations of international law is the result of the absence of an effective international stance to end this raging war in the Gaza Strip,” the Jordanian Foreign Ministry said in a statement. The statement described the attack as an "act that contradicts all human and ethical values, and violates the international law, especially the 1949 Geneva Convention.” It also called on the UN Security Council to urgently stop "Israel's blatant challenge to international law calling for a cease-fire.” The head of the United Nations Relief Works Agency in Gaza (UNRWA), Thomas White, wrote on X Wednesday that “an attack on the Khan Younis Training Centre took place Wednesday, during which two tank rounds hit a building that shelters 800 people.”

■ Criticism pours in after Israel strikes UN compound in Khan Younis (PressTV)
■ UN condemns Israeli attack on Gaza shelter (DD News)
■ Fighting rages in southern Gaza after deadly attack on UN shelter (France24)

ITV News footage shows a civilian brandishing a white flag being shot dead. | British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has been questioned over an ITV News video which shows a civilian being shot dead while waving a white flag in Gaza. The shocking images have sparked war crime accusations, and Sunak was challenged to give his reaction on Wednesday. ● The video taken the previous day by Mohammed Abu Safia, an ITV News cameraman, showed a group of civilians in the enclave holding a white flag. An English-speaking man says they are trying to go back to an area under fire to rescue relatives. Moments later, one of the men is fatally shot in the chest. [...] During Wednesday’s prime minister’s questions, Scottish National Party MP Stephen Flynn challenged Sunak over the incident, asking him if “such an act constitutes a war crime?” In response, Sunak said “international humanitarian law should be respected, and civilians should be protected.” But Flynn pushed him further, saying: “I don’t think it’s unreasonable to ask the prime minister of the United Kingdom to rise to that dispatch box and tell the people of these isles and elsewhere, that shooting an unarmed man walking under a white flag is a war crime.” ● Labour MP Tahir Ali also bitterly criticized the prime minister over the Israel-Gaza conflict, saying he had “the blood of thousands of innocent people on his hands,” and asking him if it was time to commit “to demanding an immediate ceasefire and an ending of the UK’s arms trade with Israel.”

■ UK's stance on Gaza raises 'significant ethical, legal questions': Expert | 'UK government’s diplomatic backing, military aid, direct involvement in conflict...make it complicit in facilitating genocide,' says Abd al-Fattah El-Awaisi (Anadolu Anjansi)

US and allied naval forces have been involved in near daily clashes with the Iran-backed militia | Iran-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen claimed to have fought off two US warships, reporting a “direct hit” on one of them while the vessels were “protecting two American commercial ships” in the Red Sea on Thursday, the group’s spokesman said. The US said it intercepted missiles fired at two ships operated by Maersk, the shipping company that handles about 15 per cent of container shipping globally.

■ Sayyed al-Houthi: US starving Gaza, turned Red Sea into battlefield (Al Mayadeen)
■ Ansarullah orders US, British UN staff to leave Yemen (PressTV)
■ How is Yemen protecting international law as US, 'Israel' violate it?

Türkiye has ratified Sweden’s membership application, leaving Budapest as the last holdout | The Hungarian government is in favor of Sweden joining NATO and will soon schedule a ratification vote in the parliament, Prime Minister Viktor Orban announced on Wednesday. The move will allow Stockholm to become a member of the US-led military bloc after almost two years of delays. ● Sweden applied to join NATO in May 2022, citing the Russia-Ukraine conflict, but ran into opposition from Türkiye and Hungary due to ongoing disputes with the two states. The bloc’s rules require unanimous consent before it can accept new member states.