RSF accused of killing dozens in Al-Jazeera and North Darfur

Thirteen people were shot dead in an attack attributed to the Rapid Support Forces in Sudan’s Gezira state on Sunday, while they accused of killing 15 people in an attack in North Darfur on Saturday.

A medical source said that 13 people were killed as a result of Rapid Support Forces shooting civilians in the town of Al-Hilaliya, 70 kilometers north of Wad Madani , the capital of Al-Jazeera State.

In central Sudan, eyewitnesses told that “the Rapid Support Forces killed 19 citizens in the village of Wad al-Sayyid. as a result elderly woman died as a result of being displaced on foot, while the rest of the village’s citizens were dispersed to shelters in the cities of New Halfa (eastern Sudan) and Shendi (north).”

Last October, this state, witnessed the killing of 124 people and the displacement of at least 120,000 others as a result of attacks by the Rapid Support Forces, according to the United Nations. The Rapid Support Forces escalated their attacks there “after one of its leaders defected and joined the army.

The Rapid Support Forces also accused of looting medicines, medical supplies and electric generators from Al-Tandab Hospital in Al-Jazeera State.

Violations in North Darfur

The sources in North Darfur told that the Rapid Support Forces killed 15 people and injured 5 others in the Bardik area in the State.

Darfur Governor Minni Arko Minawi posted a video clip on his X account, which he said showed Rapid Support Forces burning villages in North Darfur State, adding that these were “crimes classified as ethnic cleansing.”

The “Coordination of the Resistance Committees of El Fasher” published a list, which it said was “preliminary,” of the dead and wounded in the “Bardik massacre and the neighboring villages north of the city of Kutum, in North Darfur State.”

Amid mutual accusations between the two parties to the conflict of committing war crimes by targeting civilians and preventing humanitarian aid, the war has left tens of thousands dead, displaced more than 10 million Sudanese, and caused – according to the United Nations – one of the worst humanitarian crises in modern history,