RSF was accused of storming the Zamzam’s Darfur camp
A local refugee group said that the paramilitary force in Sudan stormed the largest displacement camp in the country, looting and setting fire to the market and many homes.
The Zamzam camp in North Darfur was exposed to intense artillery shelling since late last year, but this is the first time that RSFs have been accused of sending it in the fighters.
An eyewitness told the BBC that the situation in the camp was “very catastrophic”, and there were many victims.
The nearby city of Al -Fashir, one of the civil war centers that erupted in 2023, under the siege of RSF because it is fighting the army.
The army and the RSF allies – they came to power together in a coup – but it fell on an internationally supported plan to move towards civil rule.
Sudanese displaced people and refugees Block said that the Zamzam camp had been invaded on Tuesday.
However, a RSF spokesman denied that his fighters had interrupted this, saying they had seized a nearby military base belonging to an armed group fighting alongside the Sudanese army, after RSF checkpoints were bombed for several days.
BBC confirmed the verification of social media footage that shows men waving the victorious weapons behind them and say they are in the camp.
The emblem is removed from its official uniform, but the man who films the video has RSF signs.
When asked about the damage to the market, a RSF spokesman said that the group “has circulated a message in which he was committed to protecting the camp residents and asked them to stay away from the extinguishing areas.”
Zamzam hosts about half a million people who were already suffering from starvation.
Reports said the attack forced thousands of them to flee again.
The Medical Charity Foundation Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), which runs a hospital in Zamzam, said it had received seven bodies and 21 people injured in the hospital that runs in Zamzam.
A spokesman for the MSF added that most of them were in serious condition, but the hospital was lacking in the ability to care for all of them.
The BBC spokesman said that the hospital was no longer undergone surgery.
The Minister of Health in North Darfur told Ibrahim Abdullah Khatter BBC that the wounded were unable to reach Al -Fasher for treatment because RSF was preventing the road and preventing access to the city.
“Those who suffer more than the displaced people,” he said.
The humanitarian catastrophe increased late last year when Zamzam was under heavy artillery fire, which blames basic treatment organizations, including MSF, on RSF.
A group of international non -governmental organizations issued a statement in December, saying that the attacks on Zamzam were distinguished “an escalation of violence on a previously rescued site of active hostilities”, although “consistent with a pattern of attacks” other camps for the displaced. .
“This confirms the fact that there are now no safe places for people to flee to them in North Darfur,” he said.
The blockade began last April – after a year of conflict.
It is the only city that is still under the control of the army in Darfur, where RSF was accused of carrying out ethnic cleansing against unwanted societies.
