Port Sudan:
A drone strike on one of the last functioning hospitals in al-Fashar in Sudan’s Darfur region killed 30 people and wounded dozens, a medical source said Saturday.
The bombing of the Saudi hospital on Friday evening “destroyed” the hospital building where emergency cases were treated, the source told AFP, requesting anonymity for fear of reprisals.
It was not immediately clear which of Sudan’s warring parties carried out the attack.
Since April 2023, the Sudanese army has been at war with the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces, who have captured almost the entire vast western region of Darfur.
They have besieged el-Fashar, the capital of North Darfur state, since May, but have not managed to claim the city, where army-aligned militias have repeatedly pushed them back.
According to the medical source, the same building was attacked by an RSF drone “a few weeks ago”.
Attacks on health care have been widespread in Al-Fashar, where the medical charity Doctors Without Borders said this month that the Saudi hospital was “the only public hospital with surgical capacity still standing”.
According to official data, up to 80 percent of health care facilities across the country have been put out of service.
The war has so far taken thousands of lives, uprooted more than 12 million people and driven millions to the brink of mass starvation.
In the area around al-Fashar, famine has already taken hold in three displacement camps – Zamzam, Abu Shouk and al-Salam – and according to the UN, famine is expected to spread to five more areas, including the city, by May . Supported evaluation.
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