Gaza: World court opens hearings on request to halt Israel’s Rafah incursion

The International Court of Justice (ICJ) began public hearings on Thursday stemming from South Africa’s recent request for emergency provisional measures to immediately halt Israeli operations under way in Rafah, in southern Gaza, where more than one million Palestinians were sheltering during the seven-month-long war in the besieged enclave. https://ift.tt/yRB5OJs