RSF Attacks Kill 20 at Last Functioning Hospital in Sudan’s El-Fasher

RSF Attacks Kill 20 at Last Functioning Hospital in Sudan’s El-Fasher
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Attacks by Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) on one of the last functioning health facilities in the besieged city of El-Fasher have killed at least 20 people, including two health workers, within a 24-hour period, according to Arab News.

The RSF is currently mounting its fiercest assault yet to seize El-Fasher, the final state capital in the Darfur region not under its control. Activists have described the city as an “open-air morgue” for starved civilians.

The strikes on Tuesday and Wednesday wounded 24 people and caused significant damage to the El-Fasher Hospital buildings. An RSF drone strike hit the maternity ward on Tuesday, killing eight people, followed by an artillery attack on Wednesday that killed 12 more.

Nearly 18 months into the siege, the 400,000 trapped civilians in El-Fasher face a humanitarian catastrophe. Most hospitals in the city have been bombed and forced to shut, leaving roughly 80% of the population without medical access, according to the UN. Doctors are operating under extreme duress, resorting to using materials like mosquito netting as a substitute for gauze.

Food scarcity is critical; animal feed, which many families have relied on for months, is now scarce and costly, forcing most soup kitchens to close. More than 1 million people have fled El-Fasher since the war began, representing 10% of all internally displaced people in Sudan.