More than 120 people were killed in Al-Jazeera state (central Sudan) during an attack by paramilitaries, who laid siege to entire villages in this region on Friday, according to a new report announced on Monday, October 28, by the Minister of Health. “The Rapid Support Forces militia [FSR] committed a massacre against the citizens of Al-Sariha, in the state of Al-Jazeera (…)which left more than 200 injured and 124 martyrs”reported the Minister of Health, Haitham Mohamed Ibrahim. Your ministry “Work to provide medicine and urgently treat the wounded and sick in besieged areas”he added.
“I am deeply alarmed by the escalation of violence against children and families in the state of Al-Jazeera”declared UNICEF director Catherine Russell in a press release. “During the past week, at least 124 people have been killed on Al-Jazeera – including at least ten children, some as young as 10 – and at least 43 children have been injured”he added.
A local pro-democracy group reported a death toll of 50 in two towns in the state to Al-Jazeera on Saturday following this attack.
Impossible rescues
Sudan has been the scene since April 2023 of a war between the RSF, led by General Mohammed Hamdan Daglo, and the army led by General Abdel Fattah Abdelrahman Al-Bourhane, de facto leader of this country that is among the poorest in the world. world. world. The conflict has left tens of thousands dead, with estimates ranging between 20,000 and 150,000, and most of the victims remain unrecorded, according to doctors.
Paramilitaries have recently escalated violence against civilians in the agricultural state of Al-Jazeera, south of Khartoum, after their commander in that area joined the army.
Sudan’s doctors’ union on Friday called on the United Nations to push for safe humanitarian corridors to villages. “who face genocide at the hands of the militia” of the FSR, as rescue operations have become impossible. According to medical sources in several towns, almost all urgent care centers have been forced to close.
