Israeli Drone kills Sudanese refugees in Lebanon

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The raid by an IDF drone yesterday on a motorcycle on the Doha-Kafr-man road in southern Lebanon killed two Sudanese refugee workers working as guards for a house in the area, according to Lebanese media.

Sudanese refugees fleeing the situation in the Sudan are in tragic situations in the context of the Israeli armys military confrontations with Lebanon.

Sudanese refugees held a vigil in front of UNHCR in Lebanon demanding their evacuation to safer places.

According to Al Jazeera Net English, Sudanese asylum seekers gathered in a café in Beirut on November 10 to discuss their situation. Sudanese activist Abdelbaki Osman spoke of the suffering of Sudanese asylum seekers stuck between the civil war in their homeland and Israels invasion of Lebanon.

Osman appealed to UNHCR to resettle registered Sudanese asylum-seekers and refugees in Italy, Turkey or Cyprus until their asylum or resettlement applications were processed permanently elsewhere.

UNHCR reported that 400 Sudanese had applied for asylum in Lebanon since the beginning of the war in the Sudan. Yahya, who belongs to the established tribes in Darfur known as "non-Arabs", is one of them.

Many asylum seekers took refuge in the Sudanese Cultural Club, which was established in 1967 as a social place after it became a haven for Sudanese displaced persons, where more than 100 people took refuge in October.

According to the International Organization for Migration, there are about 11,500 Sudanese in Lebanon, of whom 2,727 are registered as refugees or asylum seekers.