Welcome to the news hour. The UN's top court at the Hague ordered Israel today to stop its military

operations in the southern Ghazin city of Rafa, but the ruling from the International

Court of Justice does not require a full

ceasefire. It is unlikely that Israel will follow the ICJ's ruling but the action

does add to mounting pressure on Israel, just days after three European countries

said they would recognize a Palestinian state.

South Africa had brought the case, calling for Israel to halt its military operation in Raffa and accusing the country of genocide.

Israel's government today called those charges false, outrageous, and morally repugnant.

In its ruling, the court expressed doubt that Israel is doing all it can to minimize civilian

harm and deaths.

The court is not convinced that the evacuation efforts and related measures that Israel

affirms to have undertaken to enhance the security of civilians in the Gaza Strip and in particular those recently displaced

from the Raffach governor are sufficient.

Hamas leaders welcomed the ICJ's decision and called for the UN Security Council to enforce the ruling.

The Israeli army said it recovered the bodies of three more hostages during an overnight

military operation in the northern Khazin city of Jibalia.

Officials say that Hanan Yavlanka, Michelle Niesenbaum, and Orian Hernandez were killed during the October 7th Hamas attack and their bodies taken to Gaza.

Israel says some hundred hostages remain captive in Gaza along with at least 39 that are presumed dead.

Seventeen bodies have been recovered so far. An American

missionary couple were shot and killed by gang members last night in Haiti's

capital. A third victim Jude Mont Montes, who worked with the couple, also died in the

attack in northern Port-au-Prince. The two missionaries were a young married couple, Davy and

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