The main thing to remember:
The UN Security Council is due to meet on Saturday, the day after a decision by the International Court of Justice (ICJ) calling on Israel to prevent any possible act of "genocide" in the Palestinian territory. An accusation deemed “scandalous” by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
During the night, witnesses reported violent strikes in Khan Younes, the main town in the south of the besieged territory where intense fighting has raged in recent days between the Israeli army and the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas. On site and the Palestinian Red Crescent said it received the dead and treated the wounded at al-Amal hospital.
American forces struck a Houthi rebel site in Yemen early Saturday after the latter attacked a British tanker which "caught fire" in the Gulf of Aden, a new episode in their campaign targeting international maritime traffic in "solidarity " with Gaza.
The essentials of the day before
The UN's highest court on Friday called on Israel to prevent any possible act of "genocide" in Gaza, a "scandalous" accusation for Israel. The International Court of Justice (ICJ), however, did not call for a ceasefire in the Palestinian enclave.
Israel, which controls the entry of international aid into the besieged territory, must take "immediate measures" to allow the provision of aid "which the Palestinians urgently need", also declared the ICJ, which has no leverage to impose its decisions.
The Hamas Ministry of Health announced on Friday a toll of 26,083 people killed, the majority of them women, adolescents and children in the Gaza Strip since the start of the war between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist movement on October 7.
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