– Europe Press / Contact / Samir Paul
Madrid, December 6 (European Press) –
The Sudan Doctors Network Civilian Organization, which documents victims in the context of the civil war that broke out in April 2023 in the African country, on Friday raised the death toll to more than 50, including 33 children, due to a drone attack attributed to the Rapid Support Forces against a day care center and a hospital in South Kordofan state, as part of the conflict that has plunged the country into one of the country’s largest humanitarian crises. Global level.
The organization said in a statement published on its social networks, in which it urged the international community to “urgently activate its mechanisms to stop these violations and protect defenseless civilians” in Sudan, that among the dead were four women and “several paramedics who went to the scene to provide assistance, but were subjected to a second, unexpected attack.”
The letter, signed by the official spokesman for the Sudanese Doctors Network, Razan Al-Mahdi, said: “This heinous crime and immoral massacre against children in kindergartens confirms the deliberate policy pursued by the Rapid Support Forces in terrorizing civilians and forcibly displacing them, which are the methods they used systematically in El-Fasher, Kordofan, and other regions.”
The same organization had reported the previous day that at least nine people, including four children and two women, had been killed due to the attack carried out on Thursday, which was presented as a “serious violation of international humanitarian law.”
Sudan’s civil war was sparked by strong disagreements over the process of integrating the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces into the army, a situation that derailed the transition process after the overthrow of Omar Hassan al-Bashir’s regime in 2019, which was already damaged after riots that ousted then-Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok in 2021.
The conflict, marked by the intervention of several countries to support the warring parties, has plunged the country into one of the world’s largest humanitarian crises, with millions displaced and refugees and facing international concern over the spread of disease and damage to vital infrastructure, preventing hundreds of thousands of victims from accessing care.