GAZA: The health ministry in Gaza said Saturday that around 26,257 people have been killed in the Gaza Strip since the war broke out between Hamas and Israel on October 7. A health ministry statement said about 174 Palestinian people were killed during the past 24 hours. It added that around 64,797 have been injured since the war began in the Gaza Strip.
Meanwhile, a 28-year-old Palestinian man, who had taken shelter in al-Amal Hospital’s compound in Khan Younis, has been killed following Israeli troops opened fire on him, the Palestinian Red Crescent Society stated.
Gaza Death Toll Reaches 26,257
Arab media reported that Al-Amal Hospital, along with Nasser Hospital, has been under siege by the Israeli military for almost a week and has been subjected to continuous artillery fire.
🚨Urgent: a 28-year-old internally displaced person at AlAmal Hospital in #KhanYunis was killed in the courtyard hospital, due to the Israeli occupation forces opened fire on him. #NotATarget ❌#IHL #Gaza #AlAmalHospital
— PRCS (@PalestineRCS) January 27, 2024
According to media reports, UNSC will meet next week over the verdict by the world’s top court calling for Israel to stop genocidal action in the Gaza Strip, the council’s presidency said on Friday.
Earlier, the ICJ on Friday said Israel must stop genocidal action in its war with Hamas and allow help into the Strip.
The judgement “gives the clear message that to do all the things that they are asking for, you need a truce for it to happen,” Palestinian envoy to the United Nations Riyad Mansour stated.
The UNSC, long divided on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, has only agreed to two resolutions since the October 7 Hamas assaults sparked the latest round of war.
The ICJ, based in The Hague, while refraining from ordering an urgent halt to the war, said Israel must do everything to “stop the commission of all actions within the scope” of the 1948 UN Genocide Convention.
