Israel bombs Rafah weighing on the failure of the International Court, even as it announces its “intention” to resume negotiations with Hamas

Israel wanted to bomb this Saturday in Rafah, a city that it considered a key in its war against Hamas, thinking that the International Court of Justice (CIJ) had ordered the Viennese to suspend its operations in that area at the far south of the Gaza Strip.

At the same time, as their troops advance in various areas of the Palestinian enclave, a senior Israeli official told AFP that Benjamin Netanyahu’s government has the “intention” of relate “this week” to the negotiations indirect with the Palestinian Islamic movement, mediated by the United States, Qatar and Egypt, with a view to a truce agreement.

International contacts gathered in Paris, where state and Israeli representatives gathered, after a pause due to the Israeli military operation in Rafah.

The UN’s highest judicial body has ordered Israel to halt its operation in this border town with Egypt and any other actions that could result in the “total or partial physical destruction” of the Palestinian people in Gaza.

The ICJ also called for the opening of the border crossing between Egypt and Gaza in Rafah, a gateway for humanitarian aid that Israel sought earlier this month as it began its operations in the city.

The court, whose decisions are binding even if it has no means to implement them, urged the other side of the Islamic movement Hamas to immediately release all the rehenes captured in its unprecedented and ferocious October 7 attack on Israel.

However none of the two notices seem to have the demands of the court pending.

The Spanish minister of Asuntos Exteriores, José Manuel Albares, recorded in Israel this day that “the precautionary measures” dictated by the CIJ are “obligatorias”.

“Also the high fire, the liberation of the kidneys and the humanitarian fire”, added.

The High Representative of the European Union (EU) for Asuntos Exteriores, Josep Borrell, recorded at the time in Israel that the orders of the Court Internacional de Justicia are “binding” and “should be applied fully and effectively”, after the failure of the complaint. in Tel Aviv began with the military offensive in Rafah, a refuge for Palestinian civilians in southern Gaza.

“We inform you of the order of the CIJ in Israel, in the case presented by South Africa (…) The orders of the CIJ are binding on all parties and must be applied fully and effectively”, Borrell assured through a message in Social X red.

Finance ministers of the G7, the group of six mayors of industrialized economies, have called on Israel to “guarantee” banking services to Palestinian banks, after Israel appealed this week to denying them access to its system.

In Gaza France, AFP reporter witnesses and journalists bomb Israeli troops against Rafah, Jan Yunis, also in the south and Gaza City in the north.

The Israeli army announced that several Murieron militiamen were there “fight body to body” el viernes in Jabaliya, in the north, and by “disparos de tanques” in the center. He also claimed to have “eliminated a terrorist cell” in Rafah.

The conflict erupted on October 7, when the Islamic commands trained more than 1,170 people, in its civilian mayor, in the territory of Israel, according to an AFP tally based on official Israeli data.

They are the militiamen too seized from 252 people. Israel says 121 captives remain in Gaza, of whom 37 have died.

In response to the October attack, Israel launched an offensive against Gaza, in which 35,903 Palestinians have died so far in its civilian area, according to the Hamas government’s health minister.

Indirect negotiations began in early May, shortly after Israel’s ground operations began in Rafah.

On Saturday, a senior Israeli official told AFP, on condition of anonymity, that his country has “the intention of resuming conversations this week and has an understanding.”

The Israeli media indicated that the head of the Mosad – the intelligence service -, David Barnea, reached an agreement during meetings in Paris with the director of the CIA, William Burns, and the Cathar prime minister, Mohamed bin Abdulrahman al Thani , a new sign for conversations.

The head of state diplomacy, Antony Blinken, also spoke with Israel’s war cabinet minister, Benny Gantz, about los new efforts to achieve a high level of fire and the reopening of the Rafah pass as soon as possible.

The Israeli troops entered some sectors of the city of Rafah at the beginning of May, due to the opposition of the international community, including on its European side.

The soldiers returned to the Palestinian side of the cross facing Egypt, that is it slowed down the suministro de ayuda humanitaria even more for 2.4 million gazatíes.

Israel “only pursues its extremist ideology of death and destruction with the aim (…) of increasing destruction”, estimates Yahya, a 34-year-old Palestinian in Rafah.

The humanitarian situation in the territory is alarming, with the risk of Hambruna, out-of-service hospitals and around 800,000 people in Rafah, according to the UN.

The head of the Oficina de Naciones Unidas para la Coordinación de Asuntos Humanitarios (OCHA), Martin Griffiths, said that “humanitarian workers and UN staff must be able to carry out their work with safety”.