Tripoli_ The Government of National Unity (GNU) in Tripoli reiterates its full support of the just cause of the Palestinian people, the Acting Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Taher Al-Baour, told Mr. Majdi Al-Khalidi, the Palestinian President’s Advisor for Diplomatic and Political Affairs.
Al-Baour spoke with Al-Khalidi on the phone during his meeting with the Palestinian Chargé d’Affaires Mr. Mohammed Abdul Latif Rahal in Tripoli.
“The historical relations between the two countries were reviewed, as well as the most important events and the latest political developments of the Palestinian situation,” a statement on the ministry’s Facebook said. Both parties discussed the upgrading diplomatic representation between the two countries.
As Israeli Gaza genocide continues, Palestinians continue their struggle for liberation from Israeli occupation. Israeli military strikes killed at least 26 Palestinians across the Gaza Strip on Thursday as it stepped up their bombardment of central areas and tanks pushed deeper into the north and south of Gaza.
On 23 November 2024, in a blockbuster ruling that shook the military, diplomatic, and legal worlds around the globe, the International Criminal Court (ICC) issued arrest warrants for Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu and former Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant for war crimes and crimes against humanity in Gaza.
Israel’s genocide in Gaza has killed over 44,200 people and displaced nearly all the enclave’s population at least once, Gaza officials say. Vast swathes of the territory are in ruins.
The ruling said that it found “reasonable grounds” to believe that Netanyahu bears criminal responsibility for war crimes including “starvation as a method of warfare” and “the crimes against humanity of murder, persecution, and other inhumane acts.”
On Thursday, the head of the United Nations Palestinian refugee agency (UNRWA), Philippe Lazzarini, said at least 70 percent of those killed in Gaza were women and children, according to Reuters.
He said the ongoing Israeli offensive in the northern edge of Gaza for the past seven weeks has uprooted 130,000 people.
Later on Thursday, an Israeli air strike near a tent encampment housing displaced families in eastern Khan Younis killed at least five people and wounded others, medics said.
In Nuseirat, one of Gaza’s eight historic refugee camps, Israeli planes carried out several airstrikes, destroying a multi-storey building and hitting roads outside mosques. At least 11 people were killed in those strikes, according to health officials at Al-Awda Hospital in the camp, Reuters reported.
They said in a statement that dozens of families were trapped in their homes after some tanks advanced from the northern area of the camp and that ambulance vehicles were unable to reach them because of continued tank fire.