Brazil, Israel-Palestine, Sudan.

Today's three stories you should know.

Brazil

President Jair Bolsonaro has visited Brazil’s flood and mudslide-stricken city of Petropolis, as the death toll continues to climb with at least 122 now reported dead. “I saw intense destruction. It looked almost like there had been a war,” Bolsonaro said. Rescuers are still combing through the debris in an effort to find survivors and bodies.

More from AFP via France24 here.

Israel-Palestine

Israeli police on horseback today violently removed Palestinians protesting ongoing forced evictions in the occupied East Jerusalem neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah. The area has become an emblem of Palestinian resistance to illegal Israeli settlement and previous protests there were the spark for Israel’s bombardment of Gaza last year.

More from Al Jazeera here.

Sudan

Regular readers of Proximities know two things about what’s going on in Sudan right now. 1) People continue to protest last October’s military coup and they continue to be shot dead for doing so. 2) It has slipped from the international headlines. BBC, though, has produced a report on another important aspect of the story: the fact that women, who were at the forefront of protests in 2019, are again leading the way.

More from BBC here.