Dozens were killed in attacks on the Darfur camps damaged by famine

The residents told the BBC that the devastating attacks on a camp hosts hundreds of thousands of people who fled the civil war of Sudan for the third day.

One person in the Zamzam camp described the position as “very catastrophic” while another said that things were “bitter”.

The United Nations said that more than 100 civilians, including at least 20 children and a medical team, were killed in a series of attacks that started late last week in the West Darfur region.

The attacks were blamed-in the city of El Fasher and two camps close-on the semi-military rapid support forces (RSF). She said that atrocities reports were fabricated.

The camps, Zamzam and Abu Shok, provide temporary homes for more than 700,000 people, and many of them face famine -like conditions.

The news of the attacks comes on the eve of the second anniversary of the start of the civil war between RSF and the army.

The United Nations Humanitarian Coordinator in Sudan, Clemmanin Nkota Salamey, said it was “shocking and seriously disturbed” through reports of what happened.

“This represents a deadly and unacceptable escalation in a series of brutal attacks on the displaced and relief workers,” she added in a statement.

The US State Department also said it “is very concerned about reports of RSF attacks on Zamzam and Abu Shouk”, adding: “We condemn the RSF attacks on the most vulnerable civilians.”

British Foreign Secretary David Lami, who is hosting a conference on Sudan on Tuesday, described the reports of “RSF attacks” as a “shock”.

The International Relief Organization said that nine of its workers “were mercifully killed, including doctors, referral drivers and team leader” in the attack on Zamzam.

The charity, which she said was the last provider of critical health services in the camp, and claimed that RSF fighters had to blame.

“We understand that this was a targeted attack on all health infrastructure in the area to prevent access to health care of the displaced internally.

“We are terrified that one of our clinics was also part of this attack – along with other health facilities in El Fasher.”

In a statement issued on Saturday, RSF said he was not responsible for civilian attacks and that the scenes of murder in Zamzam had been distorted.

“A large number of young people were killed.”

“Those who were working in the kitchen of society were killed, and doctors who were part of the hospital reopening initiative were also killed,” Mustafa, 34, said in a WhatsApp voice.

“My uncle and my cousin were killed. People are injured, and there is no medicine or hospital to save him – they die from bleeding.

“The bombing is still ongoing, and we expect more attacks in the morning.”

He added that all roads outside the camp were closed and it was “surrounded by all four directions.”

Another resident, a minister, said.

“A large number of civilians escaped, and we are still trying to leave, but we have not succeeded, all roads are banned, and we have children with us.

“Death everywhere. I am talking to you now from inside the trench, there is a bombing.”

A team of specialists at Yale University in the United States said on Friday that “satellite images evaluation”, “This attack represents a conservative ground attack on Zamzam … since fighting erupted in the Al -Fashr region in the spring of 2024.”

The Humanitarian Research Laboratory at the Yale Public Health School said that “practical burning attacks had burned multiple structures and important areas of the camp in the southeastern and southeastern parts of the camp.”

The war was established – a struggle for power between the army and RSF – the largest humanitarian crisis in the world, forcing more than 12 million people from their homes and pushing societies to hunger.

It started on April 15, 2023, after army leaders and RSF fell on the country’s political future.

Chen is the last major city in Darfur under the control of the army and was under siege by RSF for a year.