CAIRO (AP) 鈥� 鈥檚 paramilitary forces killed at least 10 people on Thursday in a drone attack that hit a hospital in the south-central part of the country, said a medical group.
Doctors Without Borders, also known as MSF, said the Sudanese paramilitary Rapid Support Forces, RSF, launched two drone strikes on al-Jabalain Hospital in the White Nile province, hitting an operating theater and a maternity ward.
The strikes, the latest in an intensifying drone warfare between the army and the RSF, killed 10 people, including seven medical staffers, and injured at least 19 people. Those injured were transferred to a hospital in Kosti, which is around 50 miles (80 kilometers) away, said MSF.
Salah Moussa, a senior staffer in the nursing department at al-Jabalain Hospital, was injured in his leg in one of the two strikes. He told The Associated Press by phone on Friday that those killed include the hospital鈥檚 general manager, the administrative manager, several policemen and a citizen.
Moussa said he was in his house near the hospital when he heard the sound of explosions at around 11 a.m. on Thursday.
鈥淚 rushed to the hospital when I heard the explosion and while we were helping evacuate three injured staff members, another drone strike was launched and I got hit and lost consciousness,鈥� he said. 鈥淭he hospital lost all its medical and administrative leadership in this attack.鈥�
The strikes are the latest in a series of attacks on the health care system in Sudan that continues to be hit hard during between the army and the RSF that broke out in April 2023. The World Health Organization said in March that over 200 attacks have targeted health care since the war began. Most recently, , including at least 13 children, in a in last month.
The nearly three-year conflict in Sudan killed more than 40,000 people, according to U.N. figures, but aid groups say the true number could be much higher.
鈥淭he attack is even more appalling as it occurred during a children鈥檚 immunization campaign,鈥� the MSF said of the strike on the al-Jabalain hospital.
Meanwhile, Emergency Lawyers, a local rights group, said Thursday that the attacks also targeted a medical supply depot in Rabak, the capital city of the White Nile province.
The Emergency Lawyers said the 鈥渞ecurring pattern鈥� of drone attacks by the warring parties since March in the provinces of South Kordofan, Blue Nile, East, Central and South Darfur displaced more people.
On Friday, Khalid Aleisir, the minister of culture, information, antiquities and Tourism condemned the attack and called for designating the RSF a terrorist organization and prosecuting its members.
鈥淲e also hold regional backers directly responsible for perpetuating this violent campaign through military and logistical support, including advanced weaponry and unmanned aerial systems, which have escalated violence and targeted civilians,鈥� he wrote on X.
Sudan Doctors Network, a local group that monitors war violence, called the attack a 鈥渄eliberate assault on health facilities and unarmed civilians鈥� that further worsens an already deteriorating health sector in the country.
鈥淢SF is outraged by these repeated attacks on health care, which have escalated dangerously in recent weeks,鈥� said Esperanza Santos, MSF head of emergencies for Sudan in the group鈥檚 statement on Thursday. 鈥淗ealth facilities, medical staff, and patients must always be protected. We call on RSF and SAF to immediately stop this spiral of violence against medical facilities.鈥�
A in the Sudanese region of Kordofan on civilians and hampered aid operations, analysts and humanitarian workers previously said.
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Associated Press reporter Yassir Abdalla in Shendi, Sudan, contributed to this report.
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