International Emergency aid workers: most important hospital in Darfur hit by bullets
According to an aid organization, one of the last remaining functioning hospitals in the embattled city of Al-Fashir in Sudan has been hit by bullets. The hospital's pharmacist was killed on Friday evening, the organization Doctors Without Borders (MSF) announced in Geneva on Sunday. The situation in the city was catastrophic and relief supplies could not be delivered. Human rights activists reported constant shelling. Stores were being looted and women and girls in particular were being subjected to violence. There are no opportunities to escape.
23.06.2024, 18:40
SDA
The hospital that was hit is now the only hospital where the wounded can still be treated and operations carried out, MSF reported. It is unclear whether hospitals are being deliberately attacked, said MSF Emergency Relief Coordinator Michel-Olivier Lacharité. This is prohibited under international humanitarian law. According to the UN, there are 1.5 million people in the city, including 800,000 who have fled fighting elsewhere.
Since April 2023, the army and the paramilitary group Rapid Support Forces (RSF) have been fighting for power in the country of 44 million people. The UN Security Council has called for an end to the fighting, which both sides have ignored. Al-Fashir is the capital of the state of North Darfur in western Sudan and the last major city in the region that is not under the control of the RSF.
