For today, links to commentary from Scheer Post, to an advisory from Consortium News, and to reports from Reuters, Common Dreams, the Associated Press, and National Public Radio; other information is accessible by clicking on their names or initials below. (UKRAINE entry for this date is HERE.)— MCM
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It may be genocide, but it won’t be stopped, by Chris Hedges | Scheer Post / Consortium News The International Court of Justice refused to implement the most crucial demand made by South African jurists: “the State of Israel shall immediately suspend its military operations in and against Gaza.” But it delivered . . . READ MORE . . .
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Advisory: CN Live! to have discussion about ICJ preliminary ruling on Israel. Consortium News. At 3 p.m. EST today, Craig Murrray, Alexander Mercouris, Ray McGovern and Francis Boyle will discuss the meaning of the World Court’s Jan. 26 ruling on Israel. Click HERE to watch and listen.
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South Gaza battles rage as heavy rain hits displaced further north, by Nidal Al-Mughrabi and Fadi Shana | Reuters DOHA / GAZA — Israel pressed ahead on today with its campaign against Hamas in Gaza’s Khan Younis area, while bad weather hit displaced Palestinians seeking refuge further north in the battered enclave. Residents . . . READ MORE . . .
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Federal court hears case alleging Biden complicit in genocide, by Julia Conley | Common Dreams / CN Calling for an emergency injunction to stop the Biden administration from aiding Israel in its bombardment of Gaza, human rights organizations and Palestinians in the United States on Friday took federal leaders to court to stop U.S. “complicity in the Israeli government’s unfolding genocide.” The U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California in Oakland . . . READ MORE . . .
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U.S. pauses funding to UN agency for Palestinians after claims staffers were involved in Hamas attack, by Wafaa Shurafa and Jack Jeffery | AP DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip — The U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees fired a number of its staffers in Gaza suspected of taking part in the Oct. 7 attack by Hamas and other militants on southern Israel, its director said Friday, prompting the United States — the agency’s biggest donor — to temporarily halt its funding. The agency, known by its acronym, NRWA, . . . READ MORE . . .
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Airstrike kills 3 Palestinians in southern Gaza as Israel presses on with its war against Hamas, by Najib Jobain and Wafaa Shurafa | AP RAFAH, Gaza Strip — Two women and a man were killed early today in what witnesses said was an Israeli airstrike on a home in the southernmost part of Gaza, as Israel pursued its military offensive against the Palestinian enclave. The strike came . . . READ MORE . . .
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ICJ finds genocide case against Israel ‘plausible,’ orders it to stop violations. Reported by Scott Simon and Eyder Peralta | NPR The International Court of Justice stopped short of ordering a cease-fire in the Israel-Gaza war as part of the genocide case South Africa has brought against Israel. Click HERE to listen and, later, read.