“No one will stop us, not The Hague, not the axis of evil and not anyone else," Netanyahu said in televised remarks Saturday evening, referring to Iran and its allied militias.

In a forceful speech on Saturday, as the conflict in Gaza approached the 100-day mark, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared that Israel will continue its war against Hamas until triumph and that no one, not even the international court, could stop it.

Following two days of proceedings at the International Court of Justice in The Hague on South Africa's accusations that Israel is perpetrating genocide against Palestinians—a charge Israel has denied as baseless and contradictory—Bibeau addressed. As a stopgap measure, South Africa requested that the court force Israel to cease its fierce air and ground onslaught.

In broadcast remarks on Saturday night, Netanyahu stated, "No one will stop us, not The Hague, not the axis of evil, and not anyone else." He was referring to Iran and its allied forces.

Though a decision on interim measures may be made in a matter of weeks, the international court lawsuit is anticipated to last for years. Court decisions are final yet challenging to implement. Netanyahu made it plain that Israel would defy requests to stop hostilities, which might further isolate the country.

The United States' diplomatic and military assistance has sheltered Israel from international pressure to halt the war, which has killed over 23,000 Palestinians in Gaza and caused much suffering in the beleaguered enclave.

On Saturday, thousands of people protested against the war in the streets of Dublin, London, Paris, Rome, Milan, and Washington. Gathering outside the White House, demonstrators carried placards casting doubt on Joe Biden's suitability as a presidential contender due to his unwavering support for Israel during the conflict.

Israel maintains that the Islamic militant organisation Hamas, which has controlled Gaza since 2007 and is determined to destroy Israel, will win the war if it ends.

Around 1,200 people in Israel were killed in a horrific attack by Hamas and other militants on October 7, the majority of whom were civilians. This attack set off the conflict. More over half of the roughly 250 hostages who were captured are thought to still remain in captivity, even if some have been freed or declared dead. nday marks 100 days of fighting.

Since the beginning of the war, there have been strong concerns of a larger conflict. Iran-backed organisations, including Hezbollah in Lebanon, the Houthi rebels in Yemen, and Iran-backed militias in Iraq and Syria, swiftly created new fronts and launched a variety of attacks. To prevent an escalation, the United States boosted its military presence in the area right away.

The United States and Britain launched several airstrikes against the rebels on Friday, and on Saturday, the United States struck another location in response to a Houthi campaign of drone and missile attacks on commercial ships in the Red Sea.


This week, the world court heard arguments regarding South Africa's complaint against Israel, which is another example of the war's aftermath. South Africa underlined the alarming number of deaths and the suffering of Gaza's civilian population, in addition to comments from Israeli leaders presented, as proof of what it called genocidal intent.

Israel requested that the lawsuit be rejected as meritless on Friday during the counterarguments. Israel's defence said that South Africa had hardly brought up Hamas, that Israel views as efforts to lessen injury to civilians, and that Israel had the right to retaliate against a merciless foe.

Israel's offensive began in northern Gaza, but Netanyahu and his army chief, Herzl Halevi, stated they had no imminent intentions to let the return of Palestinians who had been displaced there. While fighting still occurs in some areas of the north, it has decreased in the northern half as forces concentrate on Khan Younis, a city in the south.

According to Netanyahu, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken brought up the matter during his earlier visit this week. The Israeli leader said he told Blinken that “we will not return residents (to their homes) when there is fighting.”

At the same time, Netanyahu said Israel would eventually need to close what he said were breaches along Gaza's border with Egypt. Over the years of an Israeli-Egyptian blockade, smuggling tunnels under Egypt-Gaza border had constituted a major supply line for Gaza.

However, the border area, particularly the city of Rafah in southern Gaza, is packed with hundreds of thousands of Palestinians who had fled northern Gaza, and their presence would complicate any plans to widen Israel's ground offensive.

“We will not end the war until we close this breach,” Netanyahu said Saturday, adding that the government has not yet decided how to do that.

In Gaza, where Hamas has put up stiff resistance to Israel's blistering air and ground campaign, the war continued unabated.

The Gaza Health Ministry said Saturday that 135 Palestinians had been killed in the last 24 hours, bringing the overall toll of the war to 23,843. The count does not differentiate between combatants and civilians, but the ministry has said about two-thirds of the dead are women and children. The ministry said the total number of war-wounded surpassed 60,000.

Following an Israeli airstrike before dawn Saturday, video provided by Gaza's Civil Defense department showed rescue workers searching through the twisted rubble of a building in Gaza City by flashlight.

Footage showed them carrying a young girl wrapped in blankets with injuries to her face, and at least two other children who appeared dead. A boy, covered in dust, winced as he was loaded into an ambulance.

The attack on the home in the Daraj neighborhood killed at least 20 people, according to Civil Defense spokesperson Mahmoud Bassal.

Another strike late Friday near the southern city of Rafah on the Egyptian border killed at least 13 people, including two children. The bodies of those killed, primarily from a family displaced from central Gaza, were taken to the city's Abu Youssef al-Najjar hospital where they were seen by an Associated Press reporter.

The Palestinian telecommunications company Jawwal said two of its employees were killed Saturday as they tried to repair the network in Khan Younis. They company said the two were hit by shelling. Jawwal said it has lost 13 employees since the start of the war.

Israel has argued that Hamas is responsible for the high civilian casualties, saying its fighters make use of civilian buildings and launch attacks from densely populated urban areas.

The Israeli military released a video Saturday that it said showed the destruction of two ready-to-use rocket launching compounds in Al-Muharraqa in central Gaza. A large grove of palm trees and some homes are seen in the frame. In the video, a rocket is being thrown into the air by the blast. The military said there had been dozens of launchers ready to be used.

Since the start of Israel’s ground operation in late October, 187 Israeli soldiers have been killed and another 1,099 injured in Gaza, according to the military.

More than 85% of Gaza’s population of 2.3 million has been displaced as a result of Israel’s air and ground offensive, and vast swaths of the territory have been leveled.


The United Nations humanitarian affairs department OCHA reports that less than half of the 36 hospitals in the region are still only partially operational.

OCHA stated in its daily report that Israel's harsh restrictions on humanitarian missions and outright denials had grown since the beginning of the year, amidst the already acute shortages of food, potable water, and fuel in Gaza.

According to the agency, just 21 percent of the scheduled supplies—which included food, medication, water, and other necessities—have reached the northern part of Gaza.

Little progress has been made in persuading Israel to take more action to lessen the suffering of Palestinian people by the US and other foreign organisations.