Archive for April 14th, 2025

14/04/2025

Sudan War Has Created Suffering of ‘Industrial Proportions’

Human Wrongs Watch

(UN News)* — Two years since Sudan’s brutal conflict began, UN agencies warned that famine is spreading and civilians of all ages continue to suffer shocking abuse, including rape and gang rape. 

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A woman prepares food in a camp for displaced people in Kassala state in Sudan.
© UNICEF/Proscovia Nakibuuka | A woman prepares food in a camp for displaced people in Kassala state in Sudan.

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14/04/2025

“They would kill us if we stayed”

Human Wrongs Watch

By the Norwegian Refugee Council*

11 April 2025 — On the first day of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, a group of Israeli settlers carrying metal sticks and tools descended a rocky hill and attacked Khadija Kaabneh’s family.

Khadija Kaabneh looks towards her family’s third displacement site. Photo: Farah Bayadsi/NRC

The settlers stormed and destroyed the family’s tents, ransacked their belongings, and beat Khadija’s husband and sons. Fearing for her and her daughters’ safety, she fled to a nearby hill, helpless as she watched settlers attack her eldest son, Bashar.

A couple of hours after the 1 March attack, they issued a threat. “They said they would kill us if we stayed,” recounts Khadija.

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