03/29/24
World warns Israel to obey ICJ on Gaza aid as Netanyahu plans Rafah assault
Countries, rights groups call for surge in food aid to Gaza and say Israel ‘must stop starving civilians and children’. | Countries have called for Israel to obey an International Court of Justice order to allow the unimpeded delivery of aid into Gaza, where famine has set in, as it continues to flout a United Nations Security Council resolution demanding an immediate ceasefire in the enclave. ● Judges at the UN’s top court, which is examining South Africa’s charge that Israel is committing genocide, unanimously delivered a legally binding ruling on Thursday that Israel should “take all necessary and effective measures to ensure, without delay … the unhindered provision … of urgently needed basic services and humanitarian assistance” in Gaza.
■ Hamas says world court's order on additional measures to Israel requires enforcement mechanism (aNews)
■ 71 more Palestinians killed in Gaza, death toll climbs to 32,623 (Anadolu)
■ Israel’s war on Gaza live: Israel told to ‘stop starving children’ (Al Jazeera)
More than 40 killed in Israeli strikes on Aleppo in Syria
Israeli attacks in Syria have escalated amid its continued assault on Gaza | A series of Israeli air strikes on Syria’s northern province of Aleppo have killed at least 42 people, according to UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. The attack hit a weapons depot near Aleppo airport, resulting in a series of large explosions and the reported death of six members of the Lebanese armed group Hezbollah. The Syrian defence ministry said earlier on Friday that civilians and military personnel were killed in what have been described as the most violent Israeli strikes on Syria in three years. The air strikes targeted several areas in Aleppo’s countryside at about 1.45am local time on Friday (10.45pm Thursday GMT), the Syrian defence ministry said.
■ NATO’s Israel and Al Qaeda Bomb of Aleppo Murdering Syrians (Syria News)
■ Martyrdom and injury of a number of civilians and military personnel in an Israeli airstrike on Aleppo province
Fear of the Jews and the Jewish God of Terror
Laurent Guyénot | “It’s time for Jews to be feared!” declared Rabbi Shmuley recently. Jews having failed to overcome anti-Semitism by trying to be loved, respected or admired, must now make themselves feared. This is the new watchword. | The problem is, if Jews want to be feared, then they must also accept being hated. “Fear of the Jews” can be translated, literally, as “Judeophobia” (from the Greek phobos, to fear). To be feared, you must have the power to harm, and you must prove it. So if Jews want to be feared in order to fight anti-Semitism, then anti-Semitism has a bright future ahead.