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Israel accused of ignoring court as death toll in Gaza hits 27k
ISRAEL was accused of ignoring a UN ruling and behaving as though it “has licence to do as it wishes” yesterday as the death toll in Gaza continued to grow.
As many as 1,100 Palestinians have been killed since the UN’S top court said Israel must do all that it can to avoid civilian deaths in the Strip.
It brings the number killed in Gaza to more than 27,000, with 66,000 wounded and 2 million displaced from their homes.
South Africa, which brought the case in The Hague, accused Israel of ignoring the judges. Foreign Minister Naledi Pandor said they will “look at proposing other measures” to stop forces killing more civilians in Gaza.
She said: “I believe the rulings of the court have been ignored.
“Hundreds of people have been killed in the last three or four days.
“And clearly Israel believes it has licence to do as it wishes.”
The toll was revealed as the US and Qatar thrashed out fresh ceasefire proposals, plus access to Gaza for medical and food aid.
The US is also moving to calm the violence in the West Bank, where thousands of Palestinians have been arrested and more than 300 killed since Hamas’s October 7 attacks sparked the conflict.
President Joe Biden is expected to issue an executive order targeting Israeli settlers in the West Bank who have been attacking Palestinians, vowing they will be held accountable.
The violence continues to spill into the wider region with Yemen-based and Iran-backed Houthi rebels firing two ballistic missiles at a Liberianflagged container ship in the Red Sea yesterday.
It came as the US launched air strikes against rocket launch sites. The White House is also preparing “multiple-tiered” strikes against Iran-backed militias that killed three US soldiers on Sunday.
The drone blitz by the Islamic Resistance in Iraq on the US Tower 22 outpost in Jordan also injured as many as 40. The Biden regime is said to have approved plans for strikes on Iranian groups in Iraq and Syria.
The Gaza conflict was triggered by the Hamas atrocity in which 1,200 Israeli civilians were killed and some 200 taken hostage.