The death toll from the El Fasher attack has risen to 60
SPA – Port Sudan:
The death toll from the attack launched by the Rapid Support Forces on a camp for displaced people in the city of El Fasher, North Darfur, has risen to at least 60 people, according to what the Coordination of El Fasher Resistance Committees announced.
The coordination explained that the attack targeted Dar Al-Arqam School in the Al-Daraja neighborhood with two drones and more than eight incendiary artillery shells. As a result, children, women, and the elderly were killed, and a number of them were completely burned.
This attack comes a week after about 50 people were killed in similar strikes that targeted a mosque and a hospital in the city.
The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk, strongly condemned these attacks, considering that they “demonstrate a deliberate disregard for civilian lives,” while the Director-General of the World Health Organization, Tedros Adhanom, confirmed that the Saudi Maternity Hospital in El Fasher had been attacked three times since the beginning of October.
El Fasher has been under a stifling siege since May 2024, with more than 260,000 people suffering from severe food shortages, while one million people in North Darfur face the risk of famine, according to the United Nations.
