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At least 70 people were killed late Friday after a drone strike hit the last functioning hospital in the besieged capital of Sudan’s North Darfur state, according to local officials and the World Health Organization.
At the time of the attack, the hospital was “full of patients in need of care,” Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Saturday, Sudan’s Ministry of Health. Foreign Affairs had said that the victims of this strike were mainly women and children.
The attack on a Saudi teaching hospital in El Fishar marks the latest escalation in violence in Sudan’s 20-month civil war. It has triggered and killed one of the world’s worst humanitarian crises More than 20,000 People and the homeless More than 11 million othersaccording to the United Nations.
Friday’s airstrike is one of many attacks that have resulted in several civilian casualties. Last month, more than 100 people were killed after bombs hit a crowded market in Kabakibiya, a town in North Darfur.
Gibrius did not name who was responsible for Friday’s attack.
Both the SAF and the RSF, led by two of Sudan’s most powerful generals, Abdul Fattah al-Boran and Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo – also known as Hamdi – often engage each other in drone strikes on civilian areas. Accused.
Darfur Governor Maini Mainiwi blamed the RSF for the hospital attack. says: “He destroyed all the patients within him.”
Sudan’s Foreign Ministry also blamed the strike on the RSF, calling the attack a massacre.
“More than 70 civilians undergoing treatment, mostly women and children, were victims of the massacre when the militia attacked the casualty department of the hospital with a drone,” he said in A. statement.
RSF has not commented on the allegations, and CNN has.
The Saudi Hospital, al-Fisher’s remaining public facility with the capacity to perform surgery and treat the injured, has previously caught fire. Last August, a patient caregiver was killed when an airstrike took place in the hospital’s surgical ward. Five others were injured in the attack.
The RSF controls large parts of Darfur, including much of the country’s western and central regions as it competes viciously with the Sudanese army for control of the region. El Fishar is the last major town in Darfur still captured by RSF.
Kis Chief Gebrius said Friday’s attack on the hospital was making life even more difficult for people in the region as it comes at a time when “access to health care is already severely limited” in North Darfur. is” “due to the closure of health facilities after heavy bombings.
Ghebresis called on the warring parties to stop fighting and leave Sudan’s health facilities alone, adding, “Above all, the people of Sudan need peace. The best medicine is peace.”
