Israel's lawyers told the UN Supreme Court that the country has the right to proceed with a large-scale offensive in Rafah, southern Gaza, to defend itself against the Palestinian militant group Hamas

Illegal Israeli settlers set fire to Palestinian farmland near Nablus, in the occupied West Bank, reducing wheat crops and olive trees to ashes, while other settlers in the southern WB damaged Palestinian crops by grazing their sheep among the plants

Navi Pillay, of the UN Commission of Inquiry, said her team had presented the ICC with 7.000 pieces of evidence relating to crimes committed by Israel and Hamas: "we have never seen anything like this," she said

Unicef accused the Israeli army of preventing the entry of one of its humanitarian aid convoys into the north of the Gaza Strip, apparently without providing valid reasons, despite the fact that they had the permits and documents required by Israel