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Added on the 17/04/2023 20:11:05 - Copyright : AFPTV - First images
Some 200,000 people have now fled Sudan to escape fighting that erupted in mid-April, in addition to hundreds of thousands who have been displaced inside the country, says UN refugee agency spokesperson Olga Sarrado. SOUNDBITE
"The seven souls we mourn today were there so that hungry people could eat," chef Jose Andres says of the World Central Kitchen staffers who were killed in an Israeli strike in Gaza, during remarks at a ceremony honoring their lives at the Washington National Cathedral. SOUNDBITE
Palestinian mourners gather for the funeral of three people killed in Jenin in an Israeli air strike on their vehicle. The Israeli military said it had "eliminated" Ahmed Barakat, who it accused of a May 2023 attack that killed an Israeli settler. Jenin and its adjacent refugee camp are a stronghold of armed Palestinian groups opposing Israel, which has occupied the West Bank since 1967. Israeli troops regularly carry out incursions into Palestinian communities but until several months ago had rarely struck the West Bank from the air. IMAGES
Images of Rafah the morning after heavy Israeli strikes on the densely crowded region in southern Gaza, which killed at least 52 people, according to the territory's health ministry. IMAGES