TUNIS: At least 34 migrants were missing and two died after their boat sank off Tunisia as they tried to cross the Mediterranean to Italy, the Tunisian national guard said on Friday.
The boat which sailed from Libya coast was carrying 70 people, and 34 people were rescued off the southern town of Zarzis.
This week, Tunisian coast guard also recovered five bodies of migrants.
With improving weather in the last weeks, the flow of African migrants, including Tunisians, in boats heading for Italy has increased.
A record 1,313 migrants were reported to have died or went missing off the Tunisian coast last year, a rights group said on last month, highlighting the unending migrant crisis in the North African country.
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At least 34 migrants missing off Tunisia, two die after boat sinks
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At least 34 migrants missing off Tunisia, two die after boat sinks
- This week, Tunisian coast guard also recovered five bodies of migrants
Palestinian succumbs to injuries inflicted by Israeli gunfire near Jerusalem
- Yousef Omar Aql, 33, was from Bidya, a town west of Salfit in the northern occupied West Bank
LONDON: A Palestinian man died on Tuesday from injuries sustained in Al-Ram town, north of East Jerusalem, after being shot by Israeli forces.
Yousef Omar Aql, 33, from the town of Bidya, which is west of Salfit in the northern occupied West Bank, died from a gunshot wound inflicted by Israeli forces. He was injured a week earlier in Al-Ram while trying to enter his workplace in Israel.
Aql was transferred to the Palestine Medical Complex in Ramallah after being shot. He was admitted to intensive care but was declared dead on Tuesday after suffering critical injuries.
More than 1,000 Palestinians, including militants, have been killed in the West Bank by Israeli forces or settlers since the start of the Gaza war in late 2023, according to the Palestinian Health Ministry. During the same period, 43 Israelis, including soldiers, have been killed in Palestinian attacks in the West Bank, according to official Israeli figures.
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