Gaza
Authorities in Gaza have criticized global “indifference and inaction” after four children and a woman were killed when a sandbank collapsed onto their tent as the Palestinian enclave was battered by the first winter storm of the year. Heavy rains caused widespread flooding in camps where displaced people live in flimsy tents on exposed ground, with no protection from the elements. About 70,000 tents were flooded when the storm hit Gaza over the weekend. The Israeli government has repeatedly blocked the entry of caravans to replace the tents, according to Save the Children. “This is a scene that should shame the conscience of humanity and reflects the extent of the complicity and abandonment to which our…people are subjected,” the Gaza Government Media Office said.
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Senegal
At least 39 people died when a boat carrying people attempting to reach Spain’s Canary Islands sank off Senegal’s coast, the country’s interior ministry said, as a human rights group called for a parliamentary inquiry. Action for Human Rights and Friendship slammed a “lack of lasting results” to tackle migrant deaths at sea. The migration route from West Africa to the Canary Islands, often used by people fleeing conflict and poverty, is one of the deadliest in the world. At least 635 people drowned in the first five months of 2026, according to the Spanish rights group Walking Borders. The group found that about 21 people died for every 100 passengers who reached the islands during that period.
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Syria
The foreign ministers of Syria and Jordan met in Damascus today, pledging to mend relations after a Jordanian airstrike on southern Syria killed seven civilians, including three children. Speaking at a news conference in the Syrian capital, Syrian Foreign Minister Asaad al-Shibani and his Jordanian counterpart Ayman Safadi said they would open a joint investigation into the incident last month. Jordan had said it launched the air raid to target members of ISIS it believed were responsible for a deadly attack on a church in its Karak province.
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