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Britain could attack Houthi targets Yemen again If rebels continue to attack ships, Red SeaBritish Foreign Secretary, sir david cameronit shows.

The former Conservative prime minister has warned that Iran-linked armed groups could force prices up in the UK if they are allowed to block container shipping on busy trade routes.

U.S. forces struck elsewhere in Yemen early Saturday, after the Houthis vowed to avenge bombings carried out by the U.S. military and Royal Air Force the previous day.

Writing in the Sunday Telegraph, Prime Minister David Cameron said the airstrike “sent a clear message” to the Houthis that “we are determined to stop” an attack in the Red Sea.

He also suggested that if the Houthis persist, Britain may join the United States in attacking them again.

“We will continue to work with our allies. We will always protect freedom of navigation. And importantly, we are ready to back up our words with action,” Lord Cameron said.

The Houthis claim they are only attacking ships with ties to Israel in order to force Israel to lift its siege on Gaza, but International Maritime Organization Secretary-General Arsenio Dominguez told the United Nations last week that The Houthis said they were not simply limiting their attacks. For shipping linked to Israel.

Sunday marks the 100th day of Israel’s war in the region, and the clock is “ticking towards starvation” in Gaza, the head of the United Nations Palestinian Refugee Agency said.

UNRWA chief Philippe Lazzarini did not directly blame Israel or Hamas for being a “man-made disaster,” but said in a statement late Saturday that the crisis was being blamed on “inhuman language and the lack of food, water and food supplies.” It was made worse by use.” Fuel as a tool of war. ”

After the deadly Hamas attack on October 7, Israel cut off water supplies and blocked most food, fuel and medical aid to the territory.

At the same time, it launched an unprecedented bombing and ground offensive that has killed some 24,000 Palestinians and injured tens of thousands more, mostly women and children. Thousands more Palestinians are believed to be buried under the rubble of bombed buildings.

“The mass death, destruction, displacement, hunger, loss and grief of the past 100 days has tainted our common humanity,” Lazzarini said. He said people were currently living in “inhumane conditions” and diseases were spreading as Gazans were “living in unlivable conditions.” He continued:

The plight of children in Gaza is particularly heartbreaking. An entire generation of children is traumatized and it will take years to heal. Thousands of people were killed, injured, and orphaned. Hundreds of thousands of people lack access to education. Their future is at stake, with far-reaching and long-term consequences.

As the fighting in Gaza enters its 100th day, Israel will pursue a war with Hamas until it wins, and no one, including the world court, will stop it, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in his opening speech on Saturday.

Prime Minister Netanyahu made the remarks after the International Court of Justice in The Hague held a two-day hearing on South Africa’s claims that Israel is committing genocide against Palestinians, charges that Israel has called defamatory and The Associated Press reported that he rejected it as hypocritical.

South Africa asked the court to order Israel to cease heavy air and ground attacks as an interim measure.

“Not the Hague, not the Axis of Evil, not anyone else, nothing can stop us,” Netanyahu said in a televised address Saturday night, referring to Iran and its allied militias.

The case at the World Court is expected to drag on for years, but a ruling on the interim measures could come within weeks. Court decisions are binding but difficult to enforce. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has vowed that Israel will ignore orders to cease fighting, potentially deepening its isolation.

Israel is under increasing international pressure to end the war in the Gaza Strip that has killed more than 23,000 Palestinians and caused widespread suffering in the besieged enclave, but so far the U.S. Protected by diplomatic and military support.

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has insisted that “no one can stop” Israel’s war against Hamas, including at the International Court of Justice in The Hague, and this week South Africa filed a lawsuit against Israel accusing it of genocide.

“It is possible, necessary and we will continue until victory,” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told a televised news conference, adding that most of the Hamas battalions in Gaza had been “eliminated.”

Meanwhile, Philippe Lazzarini, head of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees, said Israel has cut off water supplies and most food, fuel and medical aid in the Gaza Strip, and the clock is “moving rapidly towards starvation.” ‘ he warned. brutal assault.

“The mass death, destruction, displacement, hunger, loss and grief of the past 100 days has tainted our common humanity,” UNRWA Director-General said on Saturday, on the eve of the 100th day of Israel’s war in Gaza. said in a late statement.

More on that in a moment. In other developments:

• Thousands of demonstrators gathered in Washington, D.C., on Saturday to demand a ceasefire in Gaza, where Israeli forces have killed around 24,000 Palestinians since October 7. Photos posted online show demonstrators holding various placards that read things like “Stop Funding Apartheid Now” and “Liberate Palestine.” Guest speakers who condemned Israel’s attack on Gaza and called for a ceasefire in Gaza included Cornel West, Imam Omar Suleiman and Wael al-Dahdou (speaking via video feed).

• Wael al-Dahadou, a Palestinian journalist who works for Al Jazeera, whose family was killed in two Israeli airstrikes and who himself was recently injured in another Israeli airstrike, speaks in Washington, D.C., via a video feed from Gaza. referred to the protests. He spoke out about the dire conditions in Gaza where Palestinians are struggling to survive under Israeli shelling. “People are paying exorbitant prices and living in misery,” he told a crowd in Washington, D.C.

• Hamas officials on Saturday expressed gratitude to Qatar for sending medical supplies to Gaza “in view of the many risks that threaten the lives of Palestinians,” Reuters reported. “Some of the medicines will be used to treat Israeli prisoners of war,” Osama Hamdan, leader of Lebanon-based Hamas, said at a news conference in Beirut.

• Namibia’s First Lady Monica Geingos has spoken out at the International Court of Justice against Germany’s defense of Israel in South Africa’s lawsuit over Israeli atrocities in the Gaza Strip. In a statement on He cited the Herero Nama massacre, in which Nama people were killed. “The absurdity of Germany denying genocide charges against Israel on January 12, 2024 and warning about the ‘political instrumentalization of charges’ is not forgotten by us,” Geingos said.

• The Committee to Protect Journalists reiterated its call for the protection of journalists in the Gaza Strip, calling for an end to “the killing of journalists by Israeli forces.” Sherif Mansour, CPJ’s Middle East and North Africa Program Coordinator, said: “After 100 days of fighting, Israel has achieved impunity for years of killing journalists by allowing international media and international investigators uncensored access to Gaza. “The track record that has been achieved needs to be exposed to strict public scrutiny.” The killing of journalists by Israeli forces must stop now. ”