Spanish Defense Minister Margarita Robles has called a “real genocide” Israel’s war on the Gaza Strip.

The ICJ has ordered Israel to immediately halt its aggression on the city of Rafah in southern Gaza, establish humanitarian corridors and allow the world body to investigate genocide.

The UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the occupied Palestinian territory calls for sanctions on Israel until the regime complies with the decision of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) to halt offensive in the southern Gaza city of Rafah.

Israel has bombed the Gaza Strip, including Rafah, despite an order from the UN's top court for it to "immediately halt" its military invasion of the southern city.

Palestinian resistance movement Hamas praises the UN top court's ruling that ordered Israel to “immediately” halt its offensive in Gaza’s southern city of Rafah.

The International Court of Justice, the top United Nations court, has ordered Israel to halt its offensive in Gaza’s southern city of Rafah.

The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) is among nine human rights and press freedom groups to support the request.

Libya announces its decision to file an intervention before the ICJ in the genocide case against the Israeli apartheid regime.

The humanitarian situation inside Gaza has reached a new and horrific stage.

Here is Press TV's latest top stories at 18:00 GMT on May 16, 2024.