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Sudan: 43 Alleged Attacks Documented on el-Fasher Hospitals

Are Sudan's hospital strikes a deliberate war crime against medics and patients or unverified wartime claims serving propaganda?

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Sudan: 43 Alleged Attacks Documented on el-Fasher Hospitals

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Above: A worker repairs a damaged building in Khartoum on Sept. 20. Image credit: Ebrahim Hamid/AFP/Getty Images

The Facts

The BBC said Friday it documented at least 43 attacks on hospitals and health facilities in el-Fasher between May 2024 and October 2025, and that 55 medical workers were killed, 120 injured and 10 abducted or forcibly disappeared since April 2023.
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Arab News
The RSF rejected the findings, with health minister Alaa Eldin Nugud calling them propaganda and saying South Hospital had been used as a military base. The BBC found no independent evidence for that claim, and Darfur's regional government rejected it.
Time
Arab News
Doctors Without Borders said RSF drone strikes Thursday on Al-Jabalain Hospital killed 10 people, including seven medical staff. The Sudan Doctors Network said the RSF has used Al-Nuhud Hospital in West Kordofan as a military command center.
Al Jazeera
The Associated Press
Anadolu Agency
The World Health Organization said more than 460 patients and companions were reportedly killed at el-Fasher's Saudi Maternity Hospital on Oct. 28, 2025, and that gunmen attacked in waves, abducting six health workers. The RSF denied responsibility.
PBS News
Indiatimes
The Yale Humanitarian Research Lab said satellite imagery taken Oct. 28, 2025, showed clusters of objects and reddish discoloration beside the Saudi Hospital. RSF leader Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo acknowledged "abuses" and said an investigation was opened.
The Guardian
Firstpost
The U.N. said attacks attributed to the RSF from Oct. 5 to Oct. 8, 2025, including one on el-Fasher's Saudi Hospital, killed at least 53 civilians. Doctors Without Borders has said 70% of Sudan's medical facilities closed or were barely operational.
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The Associated Press
Indiatimes

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The Spin

Narrative A

Hitting hospital after hospital, then striking makeshift wards and the carts carrying the wounded, points to a deliberate plan to make a besieged city unlivable. Health workers killed, injured and dragged away in these numbers is no accident of crossfire. A campaign waged against medics and patients deserves to be treated as a war crime, with accountability to match.

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The Guardian

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Narrative B

Accusations sourced from medics and groups aligned with the army side are hardly proof, and independent evidence of deliberate targeting is missing. Hospitals used as military positions lose protected status under the same laws being cited, a detail left out of the outrage. Amplifying wartime claims without hard verification serves a propaganda campaign, not Sudanese civilians.

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