The workers of the Sudan Clinic killed in the Zamzam field

Sudanese paramilitary killed the entire staff of the last medical clinic in a field affected by famine in the western region of Darfur, in Sudan, as part of a wider assault that killed at least 100 people, said the groups of aid and the United Nations.

The assault on the Zamzam camp, which contains 500,000 people in the besieged city of El Fasher, was also remarkable for the standards of a civil war that saw countless atrocities and accusations of genocide.

The paramilitaries with the fast support forces, or RSF, broke through the perimeter of the field on Friday evening after hours of bombing. They therefore destroyed hundreds of houses and the main market of the field before shooting their attack on the last remaining medical clinic of the field, according to Relief International, the group of aid that manages the structure.

Nine employees of the hospital were killed, including the medical garment, the aid group said in a declaration on Saturday. “We learned the unthinkable,” says the declaration. “This is a profound tragedy for our organization.”

Kashif Shafique, the group of Sudan of the group, declared in a telephone interview that social workers – five doctors and four pilots, all his staff in the clinic – had been killed with a gunshot.

The paramilitaries had warned the doctors to leave the day before the attack, said Mr. Shafique. But they had to treat the civilians injured by the bombings and, in any case, the main routes off the pitch were closed.

“There was no way out,” he said.

The RSF fought Sudan’s military from April 2023, in a temptular conflict that caused the world’s largest humanitarian crisis. Up to 150,000 Sudanese were killed, according to US estimates and 13 million were forced by their homes.

The head of the United Nations in Sudan, Clementine Nkweta-Salami, he said It was “upset and seriously alarmed” by El Fasher’s violence, which continued until Saturday. At least 20 children were among 100 people killed, he said.

Some local groups circulation Video of bodies scattered through the field, which the New York Times was unable to verify.

Satellite images published On Friday from the Humanitarian Research Laboratory of the Yale School of Public Health he showed military vehicles near the field and fires burning inside. The group called it “the most significant attack on the ground” on the Zamzam field in a year.

The growing violence comes days before an important international conference on Sudan who will take place on Tuesday in London, the second anniversary of the war. The purpose of the conference is to attract funds for the serious humanitarian crisis of Sudan. So far, the donors have committed themselves to only 10 percent of an appeal of 4.2 billion dollars by the United Nations.

The conference has fueled the criticisms of some Sudanese because they will be followed by the delegates of the United Arab Emirates, who has been accused of providing military and financial support at the ASF

Human Rights Watch urged the United Nations Security Council to impose penalties for the RSF commanders responsible for abuse and condemn “countries that provide support to the parties in violation of the embargo of the United Nations weapons in progress”.

“Global leaders must act”, the organization said in a declaration.

Both sides in the Sudan war have been accused of war crimes by groups of righteous, United Nations and the United States, although only the RSF was accused of genocide. Sudan’s army has been regularly accused of indiscriminately bombing crowded markets, often in the Darfur region, in several accidents that sometimes killed more than 100 people at a time.

At the beginning of this month, the best UNITE Human Rights Officer, Volker Türk, He said he was “absolutely upset” According to the news of widespread summary executions of civilians in the capital, Khartum, following the reconquest of the city by the Sudanese military.

On March 24, the military At least 54 people killed In an attack on a market engaged in Toura, a small town in North Darfur.

Most of Darfur, however, are held by the ASF, which has witnessed for more than a year in El Fasher, the last big city in the region that does not control. It was expected that the assault intensifies in recent weeks, since the ESF forces had been expelled from Khartum by the military at the end of March.

There were signs for days before the violence of Friday that a great attack was imminent.

Video of the Deputy Leader of ASF Abdul Rahim Dagalo mobilization Its strength in the area circulated on social media. Thursday, the RSF began to bomb Abu Shouk, another field in the north of the city, killing at least 12 people, according to local rescue.

The fighters also started attacking the Zamzam field with artillery, shots and drones, according to groups of aid and local activists. A The famine has been officially declared at the field last August.

American officials have repeatedly warned of a possible ethnic massacre if the RSF invaded el Fasher. The similar violence against the Ethnic Group Masalit at the end of 2023 led to thousands of deaths and was essential for the United States decision in January To accuse the RSF of the genocide.