The Emergency Lawyers Committee has held the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) militia responsible for the massacre that took place in the Al-Jalabiya neighborhood of El-Obeid, the capital of North Kordofan State, which left ten civilians dead, including six children.
In a statement issued on Tuesday, the committee said an RSF-affiliated drone struck civilian homes in the neighborhood on Monday evening, killing the victims and injuring others with varying degrees of severity. The committee described the attack as a “grave violation of international humanitarian law.”
The statement noted that the strike forms part of a continuing series of attacks on civilian and vital facilities, including the shelling of the El-Obeid power station on January 4, reflecting a systematic pattern aimed at terrorizing civilians and disrupting essential services.
The committee stressed that the RSF militia bears full legal responsibility for the direct targeting of civilians, emphasizing that the attack violates the principles of distinction and proportionality and amounts to war crimes due to the deliberate targeting of civilian objects and unarmed populations.
