Gaza

Judges Gomez Robledo, Hilary Charlesworth, Yuji Iwasawa, Xue Hanqin and Ronny Abraham arrive at the International Court of Justice at the start of a hearing where South Africa requests new emergency measures over Israel's attacks on Rafah, as part of an ongoing case South Africa filed at the ICJ in December last year accusing Israel of violating the Genocide Convention during its offensive against Palestinians in Gaza, in The Hague Netherlands May 16, 2024. REUTERS/Yves Herman
Hamas-Israel war

'Israel must be stopped' in Gaza, South Africa tells World Court

Israel, which has denounced South Africa's claim that it is violating the 1949 Genocide Convention as baseless, will respond in court on Friday

A Palestinian holds a representation of a Palestinian victim, as protestors they take part in a protest to mark the 76th anniversary of the Nakba, the "catastrophe" of their mass dispossession in the 1948 war surrounding Israel's creation, in Ramallah, in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, May 15, 2024. REUTERS/Mohamad Torokman
Middle East

Palestinians mark 1948 Nakba in the shadow of war in Gaza

Smoke rises from an explosion in northern Gaza, near the Israel-Gaza border, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, as seen from Israel, May 15, 2024. REUTERS/Amir Cohen
Hamas-Israel war

Battles rage across Gaza, Israel releases images of armed men at UN site

European Union foreign policy chief Josep Borrell attends a joint news conference in Paris, France, April 15, 2024. Photo: REUTERS/Sarah Meyssonnier/File Photo
Hamas-Israel war

EU urges Israel to end Rafah military operation 'immediately'

A displaced Palestinian girl, who fled her house due to Israel's military offensive, sits outside her family's tent, in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip May 13, 2024. Photo: REUTERS/Mohammed Salem/ File photo
Hamas-Israel war

Fighting intensifies between Israel and Hamas-led fighters in north and south Gaza

Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, Britain's Karim Khan, visits a mass grave in Bucha, on the outskirts of Kyiv, on April 13, 2022, amid Russia's military invasion launched on Ukraine. Photo: AFP
Europe

Court probing Ukraine, Gaza wars vows to defy threats

Smoke rises during an Israeli ground operation in Khan Younis, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas, as seen from a tent camp sheltering displaced Palestinians in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip January 31, 2024. REUTERS/Bassam Masoud/ File photo
Hamas-Israel war

Israeli tanks push deeper into Rafah; battles rage in northern Gaza

A wounded Palestinian man, carrying his injured son, reacts at the site of an Israeli strike on a house, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, May 1, 2024. REUTERS/Hatem Khaled
Hamas-Israel war

Palestinians mark 76th year of the Nakba amid potentially even larger catastrophe

Qatar's Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani looks on as he attends a press conference with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, during Blinken's week-long trip aimed at calming tensions across the Middle East, in Doha, Qatar, January 7, 2024. REUTERS/Evelyn Hockstein/Pool/ File Photo
Hamas-Israel war

Talks over Gaza ceasefire at stalemate after Rafah operation, Qatar PM says

People and rescuers work to recover the dead body of a Palestinian trapped under the rubble of a house hit in an Israeli strike, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, in Nuseirat refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip, May 14, 2024. REUTERS/Ramadan Abed
Hamas-Israel war

Israeli tanks push into Gaza's Rafah, as displaced civilians flee again

FILE PHOTO: Smoke rises following Israeli strikes, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip May 6, 2024. REUTERS/Hatem Khaled/File Photo
Hamas-Israel war

World Court to hold hearings on Israel's Rafah offensive this week

Israeli tanks manoeuvre, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, near the Israel-Gaza Border May 14, 2024. REUTERS/Amir Cohen
Hamas-Israel war

Israeli forces back in old Gaza battlegrounds as doubts over war aims grow

FILE PHOTO: Smoke rises following Israeli strikes, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip April 22, 2024. REUTERS/Mahdy Zourob/File Photo
Hamas-Israel war

Israeli forces press Gaza offensive from north and south