Over the last month, the harrowing conflict between Israel and Palestine has taken center stage for much of the world to agonizingly witness from afar.
Officials estimate that more than 11,000 people have been killed in Gaza so far, including 4,500 children. The bloodshed has taken an intolerable and inhumane form with reports revealing the torture, captivity, and severe lack of humanitarian aid that innocent civilians in both regions have been forced to endure for weeks at the hands of their governments.
Israel has refused calls for a cease-fire and, instead, recently opted to implement four-hour pauses in their assault on parts of the northern Gaza strip to allow civilians to receive aid and evacuate. Their recent airstrikes have targeted several Gaza City hospitals. Israel refuses to halt their attacks until the Hamas militant group surrenders or is wiped out.
While conflict continues in that part of the world, few headlines have captured much attention about the war in Sudan that’s resulted in one of the most intense refugee displacement crises to date.
In April, war broke out between rival militaries in the country, forcing more than six million people from their homes, half of which are children. Officials report that about 4.8 million people have been displaced internally, while 1.2 million people — mostly women and girls — have fled to the neighboring country of Chad.
UNICEF reported that this war has caused the “largest child displacement crisis in the world.” More than three million children were forced to flee their homes and nearly 14 million in all of Sudan require humanitarian aid, including food, shelter, and healthcare. Yet, more than 70 percent of Sudan’s health care facilities were forced to shut their doors due to the conflict.
Much of the violence has broken out in the Darfur region between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) fighting for control of the government. At…
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