News Wrap: Famine spreads to 2 regions of war-torn Sudan
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🗓️ 3 November 2025
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| 0:00.0 | We start today's other headlines in the Middle East. The Red Cross says that Israel transferred the bodies of 45 Palestinians to Gaza today. |
| 0:08.5 | It comes after Hamas handed over the remains of three Israeli hostages a day earlier. |
| 0:18.1 | The convoy carrying the bodies arrived in Tel Aviv yesterday. |
| 0:22.6 | All three were soldiers who were killed during the 2003 Hamas-led attack. |
| 0:27.6 | The exchanges marked the latest step in fulfilling the terms of the shaky Gaza ceasefire deal. |
| 0:33.6 | Another of those conditions is the increase of aid into the territory. Humanitarian groups and locals say that while supplies are getting in, more is desperately needed. |
| 0:43.3 | We received this box of aid. |
| 0:48.3 | Of course, it's not enough to feed us. |
| 0:51.3 | Our basic needs exceed what this parcel offers. If we compare this to the |
| 0:56.5 | aid coming in, it's nothing. Also today, Gaza's health ministry announced plans to vaccinate some |
| 1:03.1 | 40,000 Palestinian children against diseases like measles and polio. The campaign is set to start |
| 1:09.1 | next week. Famine has spread to two regions of war-torn Sudan. |
| 1:13.6 | The Integrated Food Security Phase classification, that's the leading international authority on hunger crises, |
| 1:19.6 | says Elfasher and the town of Cadugli are experiencing starvation, extremely high levels of malnutrition and death. |
| 1:30.7 | The group says 20 other areas are also at risk. |
| 1:36.1 | Meantime, relief workers in northern Sudan are preparing for an influx of displaced people after El Fasher fell to RSF paramilitary fighters last week. |
| 1:40.3 | A U.S. envoy tells the Associated Press that a truce is being negotiated in the hopes of ending the violence. |
| 1:47.0 | What happened in Fasher in the last 10 days is extremely sad. |
| 1:51.5 | And it's a city that had been under siege anyway for the last year and a half. |
| 1:56.3 | Our teams, our respective teams are working with both sides separately in an effort to finalize |
| 2:02.8 | the details of this humanitarian truth. |
| 2:05.3 | The UN says more than 40,000 people have been killed since fighting started in 2023 between |
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