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On Palestinian Prisoners' Day, observed annually on April 17, the Commission of Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs released alarming figures on the escalating scale of "Israel's" mass detention of Palestinians as of early April 2025. The number of Palestinian political prisoners held by the Israeli occupation has exceeded 9,900, not including thousands abducted from Gaza and subjected to enforced disappearance.
US airstrike kills dozens of African migrants in Saada, Yemen
Dozens of illegal African migrants were killed and wounded after US warplanes bombed a detention center inside the Saada Correctional Facility in Yemen. Al Mayadeen's Bureau chief in Yemen, Abdullah al-Farah, citing a local source, said that the migrants in the facility, mostly Ethiopians, were passing through Saada on their way to Saudi Arabia. The latest US aggression has been described as a "new massacre" by eyewitnesses on the ground.