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South Africa Says Israel is Ignoring Court Ruling as More are Killed in North Gaza

A man holds the Palestinian flag during a protest in solidarity with Palestinians in Gaza, in Mosul, Iraq, October 14, 2023. (Reuters)
A man holds the Palestinian flag during a protest in solidarity with Palestinians in Gaza, in Mosul, Iraq, October 14, 2023. (Reuters)
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South Africa Says Israel is Ignoring Court Ruling as More are Killed in North Gaza

A man holds the Palestinian flag during a protest in solidarity with Palestinians in Gaza, in Mosul, Iraq, October 14, 2023. (Reuters)
A man holds the Palestinian flag during a protest in solidarity with Palestinians in Gaza, in Mosul, Iraq, October 14, 2023. (Reuters)

South Africa’s foreign minister said that Israel is ignoring the ruling by the United Nations’ top court last week, which ordered Israel to do all it can to prevent death, by killing hundreds more civilians in a matter of days in Gaza, The Associated Press reported on Thursday.
Gaza’s Health Ministry says more than 150 people were killed and an additional 313 wounded as Israeli forces continued to battle militants Wednesday in the northern part of the territory, the initial target of Israel's ground offensive into the Gaza Strip that has seen entire neighborhoods flattened. Israel’s military said its forces killed more than 15 Hamas members in northern Gaza in the past day and targeted their infrastructure in a school.
The latest deaths bring the Palestinian death toll from Israel’s offensive to 26,900, according to the Hamas-controlled Health Ministry. It does not distinguish between civilian and combatant deaths but says most of those killed were women and children.

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Syrians Protest to Demand Answers about Loved Ones Who Disappeared under Assad’s Rule

Wafaa Mustafa, center, holds a picture of her missing father during a demonstration in Damascus, Syria, Friday, Dec. 2024. (AP)
Wafaa Mustafa, center, holds a picture of her missing father during a demonstration in Damascus, Syria, Friday, Dec. 2024. (AP)
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Syrians Protest to Demand Answers about Loved Ones Who Disappeared under Assad’s Rule

Wafaa Mustafa, center, holds a picture of her missing father during a demonstration in Damascus, Syria, Friday, Dec. 2024. (AP)
Wafaa Mustafa, center, holds a picture of her missing father during a demonstration in Damascus, Syria, Friday, Dec. 2024. (AP)

Dozens of relatives of missing Syrians gathered Friday in Damascus to demand answers about the fate of their loved ones, as many Syrians have been missing for years, some disappearing after being detained by the now-toppled government of Bashar al-Assad.

The gathering comes nearly three weeks after the opposition freed dozens of people from Syrian prisons following the fall of Assad’s government. Since then, no additional detainees have been found, leaving thousands of families still in anguish over the fate of their missing relatives.

Relatives have been traveling across Syria in search of information.

“We accept nothing less than knowing all details related to what happened to them,” said Wafa Mustafa, whose father, Ali Mustafa, has been missing for over a decade.

“Who is responsible for their detention? Who tortured them? If they were killed, who killed them? Where were they buried?” Mustafa said, speaking at the gathering held at Al-Hijaz Station in Damascus.

In 2023, the United Nations established an independent body to investigate the fate of more than 130,000 people missing during the Syrian conflict.

Marah Allawi, whose son Huzaifa was detained in 2012 at the age of 18, said she saw “how they tortured young men, how they put them in cages and tortured them.”

She called on the international community to act. “I call on the whole world to know where our sons are.”