A man holds a Palestinian flag as they take part in a pro-Palestinian demonstration outside the High Court in Cape Town on January 11, 2024. Dozens of people took to the streets in Cape Town on on January 11, 2024 in one of several demonstrations planned across South Africa in support of the government’s landmark "genocide" case against Israel.

File: Commercial ships and an Israeli naval vessel are seen in the port city of Haifa, Israel, along the coast of the Mediterranean Sea on December 21, 2023, after the United States announced its plans to establish a multinational coalition to protect cargo ships sailing through the Red Sea from attacks by Yemen's Iran-backed Houthi group.