Sudan: Omdurman hospital bombed, deadly violence in North Darfur and El Gezira
Aftermath of the bombing targeting Dayat Hospital in Omdurman, Khartoum in August (Photo: @SudanWarUpdates via X)
Health organisations have condemned the bombing of the El Dayat Maternity Hospital in Omdurman by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), as violence renews in Sudan’s Khartoum state and in the North Darfur capital El Fasher. In El Gezira, the RSF has been accused of killing civilians in a series of targeted attacks on villages in the state.
Several health organisations have condemned the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) bombing of the El Dayat Maternity Hospital in Omdurman on Friday, just a day after it had reopened.
The Khartoum Health Emergency Committee stated yesterday that the “partial destruction of the hospital due to the bombing led to its closure and the transfer of medical staff to the Saudi Hospital in Omdurman”.
The Sudan Doctors Network denounced Friday’s bombing as a clear violation of international law, pointing out that the hospital serves many pregnant women in Khartoum state.
Khartoum state health authorities reported that the bombing did not result in any human casualties and that all medical staff were unharmed.
This incident comes as most health facilities in Khartoum and its sister cities, Omdurman and Khartoum North (Khartoum Bahri), were forced to shut down due to the ongoing war.
As previously reported by Radio Dabanga, various areas of Khartoum state have witnessed resurgent clashes since the end of last week, returning the situation on the ground in the country’s capital to tension after a period of relative calm that lasted for nearly two months.
El Fasher
Fighting resumed in El Fasher, the capital of North Darfur, on Saturday morning. The El Fasher Resistance Committees said that clashes began at around 05.00 and continued until 18.00.
According to the coordination of resistance committees, RSF groups “infiltrated El Fasher from the southern neighbourhoods but were repelled”. The RSF “deliberately and heavily fired on civilians in these neighbourhoods, killing some in the streets and inside their homes”.
The Abu Shouk Emergency Room reported injuries among displaced people in the northern and eastern parts of Abu Shouk camp, located in northern El Fasher, due to the clashes and shelling.
Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) spokesperson, Brig Gen Nabil Abdallah, said that the SAF “crushed” the RSF force that attacked El Fasher on Saturday morning.
Darfur Governor Minni Minawi stated that El Fasher “overpowered butchers of civilians, killers of children and women”, referring to the RSF, in a post on X (formerly Twitter) on Saturday. Some Islamist loyalists on social media accused the Darfur Joint Forces of neglecting the battle and leaving the Sudanese army to confront the attacking RSF force alone.
Calm has reportedly returned to the city, according to the committee statement.
On August 3, at least 30 people were killed in ‘the largest ground attack’ by the RSF on El Fasher, as reported by Radio Dabanga.
El Gezira
Residents of El Aseed Wad Mousa village in eastern El Gezira state reported that the RSF killed two civilians in separate incidents, including one person in El Hasaheisa.
Nidaa El Wasat, a civil society organisation in El Gezira, reported on Saturday that the RSF “assassinated” Mohamed Saeed on Wednesday during a raid on his house in the eastern district of El Hasaheisa. “The attacking force shot him directly, killing him while he was trying to defend his family”.
In a separate statement, Nidaa El Wasat reported that the RSF killed Mohamed El Tahir and Badreldin Ali in El Aseed Wad Mousa village during a “car and money plundering operation” last Monday. A third person was reportedly injured in the incident.
Radio Dabanga previously reported on RSF elements attacking villages in El Gezira, which they seized from the SAF in December last year. On August 1, RSF paramilitaries killed 23 villagers in El Managil, El Gezira.
Two months ago, more than 100 people were killed in El Gezira’s Wad El Noura village by the RSF on one day.
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