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The White House has said the ICE facility is “under siege.”

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At least 13 people have been killed after an attack on one of the last remaining hospitals in el-Fasher, a Sudanese city trapped under siege.

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Israel’s two-year-long siege on the strip of land has killed more than 60,000 people, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health.

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It said the goal of the flotilla was to "break the illegal siege on Gaza by sea, open a humanitarian corridor, and end the ongoing genocide of the Palestinian people".

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The push for the peace plan comes as Israel is carrying out an offensive in Gaza City, with Israel's defence minister saying earlier this week that Israeli forces were "tightening the siege" around the city.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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