The leader of a Kenyan cult, Paul Mackenzie, will be sentenced as guilty for nearly 200 starvation deaths. The preacher, a former taxi driver, founded the sect in 2003, encouraging followers to meet Jesus under the false claim that the world was ending, which is why he has been imprisoned for more than three years. Now the High Court of Mombasa puts an end to years without a definitive ruling on the case.

Israel has ordered the evacuation of the entire population of southern Gaza and announced an "unprecedented attack" just hours after having bombed a school in the north of the Strip, causing 36 deaths, 18 of whom were children"The Israel Defense Forces will launch an unprecedented attack to destroy terrorist capabilities in the area," army spokesman Avichay Adraee said on social media. The evacuation order affects the towns of Khan Yunis, Bani Suheila, Abasan, and Al Qarara, all in the southern Gaza Strip. Israel claims that three projectiles were fired this morning toward Israeli territory, which were intercepted and caused no damage.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov justified the Palm Sunday massacre in the Ukrainian city of Sumi (which left thirty-four civilians dead and more than a hundred injured) by arguing that the building attacked with two Russian missiles was holding a secret meeting of Ukrainian and Western military personnel. "Ukrainian military leaders and their Western colleagues, posing as mercenaries or who knows what," Lavrov described. He added: "There are military personnel from NATO countries in charge there, everyone knows that."