It is the beginning, not the end for South Africa's complaint before the International Court of Justice in The Hague. The court finding that Israel must prevent genocidal acts in Gaza and allow humanitarian aid in but stopping shy of calling for a ceasefire.

The EU wants to strengthen ties with the Indo-Pacific, but a meeting of ministers in Brussels was clouded by differences regarding the Middle East.

What is Washington to do about Mideast mission creep? What response from the United States after the weekend attack in Jordan that’s killed three of its troops? It has already hit back at Iran-backed militias in Iraq and Syria but to what effect?

A video has gone viral on social media, claiming to show booby-trapped cans of food being dropped over the Gazan people by the Israeli military, at a time that they are suffering from what the UN calls "catastrophic hunger."

UNICEF spokeswoman Tess Ingram has just returned from working in Gaza. In Perspective, she detailed the reality for children trying to survive during Israel’s military offensive. Calling the situation in Gaza "appalling", with many people living in makeshift shelters amid the cold and rain, she warned that a lack of food is leading to malnutrition in children.

The Houthi rebels are already winners in the current Red Sea confrontation, observers say. Thanks to US strikes, they have boosted their own legitimacy in Yemen and further afield. Even critics have praised them.

FRANCE 24 spoke to Salam Fayyad, a former prime minister of the Palestinian Authority and now a visiting senior scholar at Princeton University in the United States. After the Israel-Hamas war recently marked its 100 days, the risk of an exodus from Gaza was "serious and imminent", he warned.

The UN's top humanitarian official added that "we have some really alarming indicators of the extreme suffering" of Gaza's population, such as "the incredible rapidity of the increase in famine numbers".

Ending months of resistance against a private deposition, Hunter Biden will now appear for a private testimony as part of an impeachment probe against his father.

In a video circulating on social media, users claim to show trucks dumping loads of expired humanitarian aid in Rafah, without ever reaching Gaza. We tell you where this video really comes from in this edition of Truth or Fake.

The annual meeting takes place against the backdrop of wars in Gaza and Ukraine, an AI revolution, a cost-of-living crisis and an ever-changing climate.

The International Court of Justice is to hold hearings this week on a case brought by South Africa, accusing Israel of genocide in Gaza and seeking a halt to its military campaign. Israel has described the allegations against it as "baseless" and intended to stir up lethal hatred of Jews. FRANCE 24's Shirli Sitbon tells us more about South Africa's decision to file the case, the Israeli response and what's likely to happen at the hearings.