The Israeli war on the Gaza Strip caused the displacement of most of the Strip's 2.2 million residents. It created a stifling humanitarian crisis that included severe shortages of food, water, and medicine.
South Africa filed a lawsuit against the International Court of Justice, accusing it of committing genocide crimes against the Palestinians in Gaza Strip. The Israeli occupation stopped all imports of food and drugs into Gaza at the beginning of the war, but later allowed aid shipments to enter. The US military carried out the first aidirdrop on Gaza to obtain food for residents last month.