Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu today approved new talks on a cease-fire in Gaza, a day after the International Criminal Court ordered Israel to ensure emergency deliveries of humanitarian aid to the enclave's residents.
Netanyahu's cabinet announced that new talks on a ceasefire and the release of the hostages would be held in Doha and Cairo "in the coming days...with guidelines for further progress in the talks", days after they were stalled.
The International Criminal Court in The Hague announced on Thursday that "Palestinians no longer face the risk of starvation, but it is imminent."
Filipe Lazarini, director of the United Nations agency for Palestine refugees, announced on the X social network that the verdict is "a reminder that people are responsible for the catastrophic humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip and that it is getting worse."
The court ruled in January that Israel must provide "much-needed" humanitarian aid to Gaza and prevent genocide, but Israel rejected the case brought by South Africa.
Despite a binding resolution on an emergency ceasefire, adopted this Sunday by the United Nations Security Council, fighting continued on Friday, including near hospitals in Gaza.
The Israeli army said it was continuing operations at its largest hospital, Al Shifa, for the 12th day in a row. Across the enclave, dozens of people were killed overnight, the Hamas-controlled Gaza health ministry said.
The war broke out when Hamas attacked Israeli territory on October 7, killing about 1.200 people, mostly civilians, and taking about 250 hostages, according to Israeli figures. At least 32.620 Palestinians, mostly women and children, have been killed in the Israeli campaign, according to the health ministry of Gaza, whose large parts have been devastated.
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The Israeli army said it killed Ali Abed Aksan Naim, the deputy commander of Hezbollah's rocket unit, in an airstrike in the Bazuria region of Lebanon, reports Reuters.
It alleges that he was one of the leaders of an Iran-backed militia in launching heavy warheads and was responsible for carrying out and planning attacks on Israeli civilians.
At least 32.623 Palestinians have been killed and 75.092 wounded since October 7 in the Israeli military offensive on the Gaza Strip, the Ministry of Health in the enclave announced, reports Reuters.
In the Israeli attacks on the city of Aleppo in the north of Syria, 38 people were killed, including five members of the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah, two security sources said, reports Radio Free Europe.
The Syrian Ministry of Defense announced earlier today that a number of civilians and military personnel were killed after Israel and militant groups launched attacks on Aleppo.
The UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which has a wide network of sources in Syria, said at least 36 Syrian soldiers were killed.
"The Israeli attack was aimed at an area near rocket depots belonging to the Lebanese group Hezbollah," the organization said.
The Ministry of Defense stated that several areas in Aleppo were hit in the Israeli attacks.
The airstrikes coincided with drone attacks from Idlib and western rural Aleppo that the Defense Ministry said were carried out by "terrorist organizations" targeting civilians in and around Aleppo.
The ministry did not mention the specific number of dead nor did it clarify whether the victims were caused by Israeli airstrikes or attacks by militant groups.
The Israeli army refused to comment on the allegations of the attack in Aleppo.
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