Gaza live: Israel to build 'different government' in Gaza, says defence minister

The state of Mexico has made a formal intervention at the International Court of Justice, requesting that the court allow it to join South Africa's ongoing case accusing Israel of committing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza.

The formal application to intervene and join South Africa's case means Mexico has joined a growing list of countries who have sought to join the case against Israel.

The countries of Nicaragua, Colombia, Libya, Egypt, Turkey have all sought to join South Africa's legal battle.

Former US presidential candidate Nikki Haley visited Israel on Tuesday and met with Israeli officials and military leaders.

During her trip, she visited a military site on Israel's northern border, where she signed a message on the artillery fire: "Finish them".

The message caused outrage on social media after a series of devastating Israeli air strikes killed dozens of Palestinians in southern Gaza over the past few days.

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NBC is reporting that the US military has suspended aid deliveries to Gaza by sea after its $320m temporary pier was damaged by bad weather.

The military is expected to make the announcement later on Tuesday, according to NBC, which cited a UN official, a US official and an Israeli official.

An official with the World Health Organisation said Rafah's last hospital could become non-functional if Israel launches a full-scale invasion into the city.

"If the incursion would continue, we would lose the last hospital in Rafah," Richard Peeperkorn said on the sidelines of the World Health Assembly in Geneva.

He said that such an invasion would mean a "substantial additional mortality and morbidity".

On Monday, the director of the Kuwait Hospital in Rafah said the facility was no longer operational, following a strike that killed two of its staff members.

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Dr Muhammad Salha, the director of Al Awda Hospital in northern Gaza has said that the medical facility continues to be under siege by Israeli forces.

14 health workers remain trapped at the complex with immobile patients by a 10-day Israeli siege.

Salha said they would not leave the hospital without ambulances to transport the patients.

In a message shared with Medical Aid for Palestinians, Salha said the hospital was suffering from a "shortage of everything," with dwindling supplies of food, fuel and medicene and no access to clean water.

He reported "repeated gunfire and explosions in the vicinity of the hospital."

"We are still 14 health workers, who have remained with the wounded and sick, and will not leave the hospital and not leave the wounded and sick in the hospital without care," he said.

An Egyptian security delegation is renewing efforts to negotiate a ceasefire in Gaza and a hostages-prisoner swap agreement, Al-Qahera News state-affiliated TV channel said on Tuesday, citing a senior official.

Egypt is reportedly working in coordination with the US and Qatar to try to secure an agreement.

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A Marshall Islands-flagged bulk carrier was struck by a missile off the Yemeni coast, Reuters is reporting, citing maritime security and shipping sources.

The ship issued a distress call after it was struck by three missiles and began to take on water off the Yemeni port city of Hodeidah in the southern Red Sea,  according to British security firm Ambrey.

No group has claimed responsibility for the attack, but it took place near the site of previous strikes on ships by Yemen's Houthi group.

The Palestinian president's spokesperson, Nabil Abu Rudeineh has said that the new Israeli strikes targeting Rafah are a "massacre" and called for the implementation of a World Court decision ordering Israel to halt its offensive on the city.

An Israeli military spokesperson has said that the cause of the fire that erupted in a Rafah displacement camp as a result of an Israeli air strike is still unclear.

An internal investigation into Sunday's attack is ongoing.

According to the spokesperson, Israeli aircraft dropped two 17 kg bombs, claiming that the bombs were the smallest air munitions and incapable of causing a fire of that scale.

The spokesperson added that they were investigating the possibility that weapons stored in a nearby compound cause the fire.

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Twenty-one Palestinians have been killed, at least 12 of them women, and dozens wounded in a new Israeli air strike on a displaced camp in Mawasi, a designated humanitarian zone west of Rafah,  Reuters is reporting, citing Palestinian medical officials.

Israeli air strikes have targeted al-Faluja area, west of Jabalia camp, killing and injuring Palestinians who had returned there following the withdrawal of Israel forces, Al Jazeera Arabic is reporting.

“Since the early hours of the morning, when people began to return, Israeli forces have been targeting them,” one rescuer told Al Jazeera, adding that paramedics and ambulance crews trying to recover bodies were also being targeted by armed drones.

Denmark's parliament has voted down a bill to recognise a Palestinian state.

The bill was proposed in late February by four left-wing parties, but was rejected after the Danish foreign minister said the preconditions for an independent state lacking.

"We cannot recognise an independent Palestinian state, for the sole reason that the preconditions are not really there," Foreign Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen said when the bill was first debated in parliament in April.

Norway, Ireland and Spain formally recognised a Palestinian state on Tuesday, despite Israeli threats.

Since Israel's war on Gaza began on 7 October, Denmark has argued that Israel has a right to defend itself, but more recently it has urged the country to show restraint and respect international law.

Seven Palestinians have been killed and dozens more wounded in fresh Israeli air strikes on a displaced camp west of Rafah on Tuesday, Reuters is reporting, citing health officials.

The new strikes targeted displaced families sheltering in tents in the designated safe area in Mawasi in western Rafah, according to medics and residents. 

Hamas media have estimated that the death toll stands at 20.

Al-Quds Brigades, the armed wing of the Islamic Jihad group, has said its fighters bombed Israeli soldiers and shot down a quadcopter in Jabalia refugee camp.

The group said in a statement on Telegram that the attack was carried out in coordination with Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of Hamas.

The Israeli military sent tanks and troops to Rafah and north Gaza in fresh attacks early in May. The advances have been met by some of the fiercest resistance by Hamas and other Palestinian groups, especially in the Jabalia refugee camp

South Africa's international relations department has condemned the Israeli air strike on a Rafah displacement camp on Monday.

Israeli fighter jets dropped bombs on the makeshift camp, killing an estimated 45 people and prompting outcry from global leaders who urged the implementation of the ICC order to halt Israel's assault on Rafah.