KHARTOUM – Al-Yurae – (Al-Quds Al-Arabi) – Army Lieutenant General Shams al-Din Kabashi said that two neighboring countries are trying to provide aid to the “Rapid Support Forces” without naming them, the “Rapid Support” considered in a separate statement that the army’s accusations of “regional parties” trying to provide it with military aid are “false allegations.”
In addition, informed sources revealed to the newspaper “Al-Quds Al-Arabi” London the detention of forces affiliated with the “Rapid Support” a number of families of army commanders in the airport neighborhood east of Khartoum, while sources spoke to “Al-Quds Al-Arabi” about three conditions set by “Hemedti” before the outbreak of clashes with the army to withdraw from the city of Meroe. The conditions included the dismissal of the Sudanese Minister of Interior, designate Anan Hamed, and 800 Sudanese army and intelligence officers, whom he accused of belonging to the former regime, in addition to passing the demands of rapid support regarding the structure of the command and integration into the army, including a ten-year time frame, which Burhan and the leaders of the military council rejected, and ended in armed confrontations.
Bodies piled up in morgues… and roads
Eyewitnesses reported that a number of bodies have been lying on the ground for days that no one has been able to move, especially in the central area of Khartoum and the (Arabi market). resident of Khartoum Mamoun al-Iraqi told “Al-Quds Al-Arabi” that in front of their house in the eastern Al-Diyum neighborhood, there are about 3 bodies of the Rapid Support Forces, and that it is not possible to go out and deal with them because of the continued battles inside the streets of the neighborhood.
The Karary Resistance Committees Coordination also revealed that a number of bodies of RSF elements began to rot in the Al-Manara neighborhood near Al-Halfaya in conjunction with the intensification of fighting between the two parties, which led to panic among citizens.
The director of the Medico-Legal Authority in Khartoum State, Hashem Faqiri, explained to “Al-Quds Al-Arabi” that there is no place in the morgues to receive more bodies, indicating that the morgues of the capital are witnessing an accumulation of about (2000) unidentified bodies since 2019, so you will not be able to receive more.
16 hospitals out of service
The Doctors’ Syndicate revealed that 16 hospitals have been out of service, in addition to other hospitals threatened with closure due to lack of equipment and medicines, power outages and the security threat of bombing.
It published photos showing the destruction of the People’s Hospital and Khartoum Hospital, the country’s largest hospitals. The photographs showed the scale of the destruction of medical facilities and equipment.
The Central Committee of Sudanese Doctors reported that the nurses’ accommodation at Ibn Sina Hospital was shelled with heavy weapons, which led to the complete destruction of the building and its fire.
Sexual Assaults Targeting UN Officials
Martin Griffiths, a UN aid chief, said the targeting of aid workers and facilities for relief operations in Sudan continues.
He said in a post on Twitter that the United Nations was receiving reports of attacks and sexual assaults on aid workers.
“This is unacceptable and must stop,” he said, adding that the U.N. aid office in South Darfur had been looted.