Sudan clinic workers were killed in the Zamzam camp

The Unified Relief Group said on Saturday that the Sudanese paramilitary forces killed all the employees of the recent medical clinic in the Crouch camp in the western region of Darfur, as part of a broader attack of at least 100 people.

The assault on the Zamzam camp, which carries 500,000 people in the besieged city of Al -Fashir, was noticeable even according to the civil war standards that witnessed countless atrocities as well as the accusations of genocide.

Paliphydar forces with the Rapid Support Forces, or RSF, the camp perimeter on Friday evening after hours of bombing. Then they destroyed hundreds of homes and the main market for the camp before they managed their attack on the last remaining medical clinic in the camp, according to the International Relief Group, the relief group that runs the facility.

Nine hospital staff, including the main doctor, the relief group He said in a statement on saturday. “We have learned what cannot be conceived,” the statement said. “This is a deep tragedy for our organization.”

Chef Chevik, the director of Sudan in the group, said in an interview on the phone that relief workers – five paramedics and four drivers, are completely employed in the clinic – they died.

Mr. Shafik said that the paramilitary forces warned paramedics against leaving the day before the attack. But they were forced to treat the civilians who had a limit, and in any case, the main roads outside the camp were closed.

“There was no way out,” he said.

RSF has been fighting the Sudan army since April 2023, in a sprawling conflict that has caused the largest humanitarian crisis in the world. Up to 150,000 Sudanese, according to US estimates, 13 million of their homes were forced.

The head of the United Nations in Sudan, Clemmenen Nkwata Salamei, He said It was “very horrific and disturbing” from the violence in El -Fasher, which lasted until Saturday. She said at least 20 children out of 100 people were killed.

Some local groups Circulation Videos of the camp bodies, which the New York Times has not been able to verify.

Satellite pictures to publish Friday by the Humanitarian Research Laboratory at Yale Public Health School, military vehicles showed near the camp and fires that burn inside. The group described it as the “most important ground attack” in the Zamzam camp per year.

The escalating violence comes a few days before a major international conference on Sudan, which is scheduled to be held in London on Tuesday, the second anniversary of the war. The purpose of the conference is to attract money to the severe humanitarian crisis in Sudan. To date, the donors have committed only 10 percent of a $ 4.2 billion appeal by the United Nations.

The conference led to criticism from some Sudanese because it will be attended by delegates from the United Arab Emirates, which was accused of providing military and financial support to RSF

Human Rights Watch urged the United Nations Security Council to impose sanctions on RSF leaders responsible for violations, and condemn “countries that provide support to parties in a violation of the continuous blockade of UN weapons.”

“World leaders need to act,” the organization He said in a statement.

Both sides were accused of the Sudan war of war crimes by the right groups, the United Nations and the United States, although only RSF was accused of genocide. Sudan’s army was regularly accused of bombing randomly crowded markets, and often in the Darfur region, in multiple incidents that sometimes killed more than 100 people at one time.

Earlier this month, the best human rights official, Volker Turk, He said he was “completely horrific” Through reports on large -scale brief executions of civilians in the capital, Khartoum, following the restoration of the city by the Sudanese army.

On March 24, the army At least 54 people were killed In an attack on a crowded market in Tora, a small town in North Darfur.

However, most Darfur is kept by RSF, which was putting a siege for more than a year to El Fasher, the last major city in the irreplaceable area. The attack was expected to go up in recent weeks, as RSF forces were expelled from Khartoum by the army in late March.

There were signs of violence on Friday that a major attack was imminent.

Video of the deputy leader of RSF Abdel Rahim Dagalo Mobilization His forces in the area distributed on social media. On Thursday, RSF started in Shell Abu Shuk, another camp in the north of the city, killing at least 12 people, according to local rescue workers.

The fighters also began attacking the Zamzam camp with artillery, shooting and drones, according to local assistance groups and activists. A The famine has been officially announced In the camp last August.

American officials over and over again to caution From a possible ethnic massacre if RSF goes beyond El Fasher. Similar violence against the Masalit Ethnic Group in late 2023 led to thousands of deaths and was essential in the American decision in January To accuse RSF from genocide.