El Fasher, May 12(Darfur 24)
Today Sunday, the El Fasher Emergency Room announced the death of 38 civilians and the injury of 189 others, in the city of El Fasher, as a result of the military battles that broke out on Friday between the Sudanese army and the armed movements one one hand and the Rapid Support Forces RSF on the other hand.
The emergency room said in a statement on Sunday that two children and a man were killed on Saturday night as a result of an air strike on Babiker Nahar Children’s Hospital in El Fasher.
The El Fasher Emergency Room said in a statement that an air strike targeted the Babakir Nahar Children’s Health Center in the Timanat neighborhood, south of the city, causing injuries among civilians.
Ahmed Al-Fadil, a member of the Al-Fasher South Emergency Room, told Darfur 24 that at midnight on Saturday, volunteers evacuated more than 60 children to the Southern Hospital and some safe health centers in the southern neighborhoods of the city after more than two shells fell at the center, wounding a number of citizens who are being counted.
He stressed the importance of Babiker Nahar Hospital as the only reference center for children in Darfur states and the services it provides in terms of expanded immunization, rare surgical operations, follow-up treatment of malnutrition, and doctors’ visits.
Meanwhile, pediatrician Nisreen Fath al-Rahman explained to “Darfur 24” that the Babiker Nahar Children’s Center receives more than 2,000 children a month.
She stressed the difficulty of finding an alternative center in light of Rapid Support’s use of the Children’s Hospital located in the Masnaa neighborhood, east of the city, as a facility to treat its wounded. Nisreen called on the parties to respect international conventions and not use civilian objects as military barracks.
The Babiker Nahar Center is located 500 meters from Al-Fasher Southern Hospital in Al-Wahda neighborhood, which receives civilians wounded by shells, stray bullets, and victims of aerial bombardment of the city.
Doctors Without Borders announced on Saturday that about 160 civilians had been injured, including 31 women and 19 children, after the battles that took place in the city of El Fasher last Friday between the Sudanese army, its allied armed movements, and the Rapid Support Forces.
In addition, confrontations renewed between the Sudanese army and the joint force of the armed movements against the Rapid Support Forces, today, Sunday, in the city of El Fasher, the capital of North Darfur.
Eyewitnesses told “Darfur 24” that there was a large wave of displacement of citizens from the neighborhoods of “Al-Wefaq, Al-Safa, Al-Wahda East, Al-Wahda West” to the farthest neighborhoods in the south and west of the city.