{"id":55515,"date":"2025-10-10T02:28:43","date_gmt":"2025-10-09T23:28:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/?p=55515"},"modified":"2025-10-10T02:28:43","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T23:28:43","slug":"sudan-around-20-killed-in-a-single-day-as-rsf-shells-hospital-in-el-fasher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/10\/sudan-around-20-killed-in-a-single-day-as-rsf-shells-hospital-in-el-fasher\/","title":{"rendered":"Sudan: Around 20 Killed in a Single Day as RSF Shells Hospital in El-Fasher"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sudan Events \u2013 Agencies<\/strong><\/p>\n

At least 20 civilians were killed within 24 hours after the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) shelled one of the last functioning hospitals in the besieged city of El-Fasher, in Sudan\u2019s Darfur region, according to medical sources cited by Agence France-Presse (AFP).<\/p>\n

The RSF is currently waging its most intense offensive yet on El-Fasher in a bid to seize control of the city.<\/p>\n

Activists report that El-Fasher \u2014 the last major city in Darfur not under RSF control \u2014 has become \u201can open-air morgue bleeding from every side.\u201d<\/p>\n

The war, raging since April 2023 between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the RSF, has killed tens of thousands of people, displaced millions, and left around 25 million suffering from acute hunger. The United Nations has described it as \u201cthe world\u2019s worst humanitarian crisis.\u201d<\/p>\n

Wednesday\u2019s shelling left at least 12 people dead \u2014 including a doctor and a nurse \u2014 and 17 others wounded, according to colleagues who spoke on condition of anonymity.<\/p>\n

It was the second attack on the same hospital in less than 24 hours. On Tuesday, the hospital\u2019s maternity ward was struck by a drone, killing eight people and injuring seven others, the sources said. The strike also \u201cdamaged buildings and equipment,\u201d they added.<\/p>\n

The facility is one of the few medical centers still operating in El-Fasher after most hospitals were repeatedly bombed and forced to close.<\/p>\n

90% of Sudan\u2019s Hospitals Out of Service<\/strong><\/p>\n

Hospitals across Sudan are frequently bombed, looted, or occupied. About 90% of the country\u2019s hospitals are now out of service, according to the Sudanese Doctors\u2019 Union. Dozens of medical staff have been killed in strikes that the United Nations has often described as deliberate.<\/p>\n

Exhausted medical teams are struggling to treat the wounded from daily attacks. The UN says that about 80% of families in El-Fasher who need medical care cannot access it.<\/p>\n

Doctors relying on satellite internet to bypass communication blackouts said they have been forced to use pieces of mosquito nets as makeshift bandages to cover wounds.<\/p>\n

After 18 months of RSF-imposed siege, nearly everything has run out in the city of 400,000 people. Even livestock feed \u2014 which many families resorted to eating to survive \u2014 has disappeared, with a single sack now costing hundreds of dollars.<\/p>\n

Most communal kitchens that once provided food to residents have shut down due to severe shortages, according to local resistance committees and volunteer groups coordinating aid efforts.<\/p>\n

One Million People Flee<\/strong><\/p>\n

According to UN figures released Tuesday, more than one million people have fled El-Fasher since the war began \u2014 about 10% of all those displaced within Sudan.<\/p>\n

Once the largest city in the region, El-Fasher\u2019s population has declined by about 62%, from over one million to roughly 413,000, according to the UN\u2019s International Organization for Migration (IOM).<\/p>\n

Residents say daily strikes force them to spend most of their time underground in makeshift shelters dug in their backyards.<\/p>\n

Since August, the RSF has intensified its bombardment of El-Fasher, which it has besieged since May 2024. In recent weeks, the militia has captured large parts of the city.<\/p>\n

Satellite images analyzed by Yale University\u2019s Humanitarian Research Lab show that the RSF has built a 68-kilometer wall around El-Fasher, leaving only one exit \u2014 where civilians are reportedly extorted for passage.<\/p>\n

The United Nations has repeatedly warned of \u201cwidespread ethnically driven attacks and atrocities\u201d in the city, where the RSF has taken control of several famine-stricken displacement camps, killing hundreds.<\/p>\n

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker T\u00fcrk said Thursday: \u201cAfter more than 500 days of siege and relentless fighting, El-Fasher is on the brink of an even greater catastrophe unless urgent action is taken to lift the armed blockade and protect civilians.\u201d<\/p>\n

He called for the establishment of a \u201csafe corridor\u201d to allow those wishing to leave to do so \u201cvoluntarily,\u201d and urged immediate humanitarian access to the city.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sudan Events \u2013 Agencies At least 20 civilians were killed within 24 hours after the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) shelled one of the last functioning hospitals in the besieged city of El-Fasher, in Sudan\u2019s Darfur region, according to medical sources cited by Agence France-Presse (AFP). The RSF is currently waging its most intense offensive yet …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":53784,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-reports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55515","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55515"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55515\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55516,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55515\/revisions\/55516"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}