Afghanistan, Morocco, Israel-Palestine.

Today's three stories you should know.

Afghanistan

Afghanistan continues to reel from the aftermath of a huge earthquake that killed at least 1,000 people and destroyed thousands of homes on Wednesday. Children have been orphaned, thousands are homeless and struggling to find food, and international aid hasn’t come as fast as it’s needed. "There is no meaning to my life any more," Rahmat Gul, who lost seven members of his family in the disaster, told the BBC. "I saw my three daughters and four grandchildren die, my heart is broken."

More from BBC here.

Morocco

Eighteen people were killed in a stampede today as about 2,000 people tried to storm into Spain’s heavily-protected North African enclave of Melilla. Citizens of several African nations regularly travel to Morocco in an attempt to cross Melilla’s border and claim asylum. Morocco usually bears responsibility for keeping people away from the border between Melilla and the Moroccan city of Nador. But last year, in an extraordinary diplomatic spat, Spain all but accused Morocco of letting people through as the two fell out over Spain’s policy on Western Sahara, a territory at the center of a row between Morocco and Algeria.

More from AP here.

Israel-Palestine

The United Nations today said it believes the bullets that killed Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh last month were fired by Israeli forces. “All information we have gathered … is consistent with the finding that the shots that killed Abu Akleh and injured her colleague Ali Sammoudi came from Israeli security forces and not from indiscriminate firing by armed Palestinians,” UN Human Rights Office spokeswoman Ravina Shamdasani told a news conference. The same conclusion has been reached in investigations from CNN, AP, the Washington Post, the New York Times and Al Jazeera. The Israeli government has called the multiple investigations biased.

More from Al Jazeera here.