Not even widespread international pressure -including the United States and Spain– neither him ruling of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) issued this Friday demanding that Israeli authorities “immediately” stop their offensive in Rafah, south of the Gaza Strip, is not enough for Israel. Netanyahu’s They are determined to continue their attacks on the enclave that returned this Friday to hit Rafah moments after the ruling was announced. The area already has, in the last 24 hours, 35,857 deaths after adding another 57 victims.

At least five Palestinian civilians have been detained, two have been injured and an unknown number have died during the early hours of this Saturday as a result of the attacks by the Israeli Army in different parts of the West Bank. On the one hand, a 15-year-old boy has been injured in Al Biré, a town near the capital -Ramala-, by shots fired by Israeli forces, as confirmed by medical sources to the Palestinian agency Wafa. The Palestinian Red Crescent took the boy to the hospital.

On the other hand, in the city of Al Jader, south of Bethlehem, another 22-year-old young man has been transferred to a health center with “bruises all over the body”after Israeli soldiers arrested him in front of his house and beat him “severely”, in line with what the same media already mentioned has indicated.

In Hebron, in the southern West Bank, several Palestinians have died at the hands of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), who stormed this city launching tear gas and stun grenades against the residents and causing several of them to suffocate. The IDF has imposed a curfew in the area and has carried out raids on the surrounding towns of Dura and Beit Ummar.

Also, at least five people have been arrested in different parts of the Occupied Palestinian Territories. The Israeli Army has arrested four Palestinian men – three brothers and a nephew – in Qalqilya, after raiding their homes in a “barbaric” manner, in addition to searching and destroying their contents. The fifth detainee is a young man who was passing through the Hamra checkpoint, in the Jordan Valley, south of the Jenin refugee camp. Israeli forces have also entered Araba, Yabad and the towns of Tura and Fahma, as well as the towns of Burqa and Bazaria, northwest of Nablus, where military checkpoints have been established.

For its part, and beyond reporting having killed “dozens” of combatants, the Israeli Army has claimed in a statement to have destroyed launch sites and tunnels in Jabalia.

More than 510 Palestinians have died in the West Bank and East Jerusalem at the hands of the Israeli Army and attacks by Israeli settlers since Israel launched the military offensive against the Gaza Strip in response to attacks carried out on October 7 by Hamas and other militias. Palestinians, which left around 1,200 dead and around 240 kidnapped. Of the latter, during the week some of their bodies have been recovered.

In total, the health authorities of the Gaza Strip reported this Friday that 35,857 people have died and 80,293 have been injured as a result since the reactivation of the armed conflict in the Palestinian enclave that has already lasted for more than 200 days. .

The US asks Israel to heed the ICJ ruling

After learning of the ICJ ruling following a complaint from South Africa, the US Secretary of State, Anthony Blinkenspoke by phone with the ‘number two’ of the Israeli Government’s war cabinet, Benny Gantz, in order to ask Israel to abide by the court’s order demanding an end to the attacks on Rafah.

On the other hand, during their conversation they also discussed the recent request by the Prosecutor’s Office of the International Criminal Court (ICC) to issue arrest warrants against the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, and the head of Defense, Yoav Gallant.A decision that has already been rejected by the American president, Joe Biden.

During the call, he recalled “the importance of the humanitarian situation” in Gaza, while Gantz defended that Israel let the help in to the enclave in the context of the fighting, according to a statement from the office of the ‘number two’ of the war cabinet reported by the newspaper ‘The Times of Israel’. Likewise, Gantz and Blinken have discussed efforts to return of the hostages held in Gaza by Palestinian militias

In addition, the leaders also contemplated “the prospects for advancing on the standardization agreement with Saudi Arabia”. Saudi Arabia opposes formalizing its diplomatic relations with Israel if it does not cease its offensive against the Gaza Strip and does not accept the establishment of a Palestinian State, a ‘red line’ for the Government led by Netanyahu.

However, Israel had already given its opinion upon learning of the ICJ’s decision prompted by the complaint of genocide filed by South Africa against the Jewish State: “Israel has not carried out and will not carry out no military activity in the Rafah area that creates living conditions that could lead to the destruction of the Palestinian civilian population, in whole or in part,” published the Israeli Foreign Ministry.

In that same note, the authorities called South Africa’s accusations “false, repugnant and outrageous” and insisted that it is using its “right to defend their territory and citizens” after the Hamas attacks on October 7, respecting international humanitarian law.