On January 11, 2024, a family, including a child, was killed in an Israeli bombardment of the Gaza Strip. Relatives Palestinians mourned over the bodies at the morgue in Rafah, southern Gaza.

　　On January 11, 2024, a family, including a child, was killed in an Israeli bombardment of the Gaza Strip. Relatives Palestinians mourned over the bodies in front of the morgue in Rafah, southern Gaza. The Gaza Health Ministry reported that 112 Palestinians were killed in Israeli military attacks in the past 24 hours since January 11, bringing the death toll to 23,469. Nine Palestinians were killed and others wounded when Israeli forces bombed a house in the Shawqa neighborhood of Rafah in the evening.

　The UN's highest court opened a hearing on South Africa's claim, filed by South Africa on January 11, that the war between Israeli forces and Hamas militants constitutes genocide against the Palestinian people. The Israeli military strongly denies this allegation. South Africa has ordered the International Court of Justice to immediately halt Israel's military offensive in the Gaza Strip.

　Israeli military operations in Gaza have recently concentrated on the southern city of Khan Younis and an urban refugee camp in the heart of the region. In recent days, hundreds of people have been killed in attacks across the territory, including in the southernmost areas where Israeli forces told people to evacuate; on January 11, Israeli forces put lives in serious danger by issuing new mandatory evacuation orders for residents of the al-Mawashi neighborhood and other neighborhoods in southern Gaza to move to Deir al-Balah.

　The October 7, 2023 Hamas attack from the Gaza Strip into southern Israel that triggered the war killed about 1,200 people and took about 250 hostages of the militants. Israel said the attack amounted to a war crime. According to the Ministry of Health in Hamas-controlled Gaza, Israeli airstrikes, ground and sea attacks killed more than 23,000 people, 70% of them women and children. This number does not distinguish between civilians and combatants. According to the Israeli military, 184 Israeli soldiers have been killed and 1,085 Israeli soldiers have been wounded in the Gaza Strip since the ground operation began on October 7.

Warning: Palestinians mourn their relatives, including kids killed in the Israeli bombardment of the Gaza Strip, outside a morgue in Rafah, southern Gaza, Thursday, Jan. 11, 2024. (AP Photo/Fatima Shbair)