Hundreds Killed in Sudanese Hospital as RSF Atrocities Escalate

Horror has descended on El Fasher, Sudan, as hundreds of innocent patients and medical staff were reportedly massacred inside a hospital after the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) seized the city. Families are grieving, and survivors speak of a city turned into a killing field.

The World Health Organization confirmed the deaths, and its Secretary General - Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said he was “appalled and deeply shocked” by the reports of more than 460 people killed at the Saudi maternity hospital. The Sudan Doctors Network described the attack as a cold blooded execution of everyone inside.

Since April 2023, Sudan has been engulfed in a brutal civil war between the RSF and the army. With the government having abandoned El Fasher, the RSF now controls all five regional capitals of Darfur, leaving civilians trapped in a nightmare of violence, fear, and hunger. El Fasher, once home to over a million people, has been under siege for more than a year. Previous RSF attacks, including a massacre at the Zamzam displacement camp, claimed thousands of lives.

Survivors describe horrors too painful to imagine. Civilians were beaten, shot in their homes, and left to die in the streets. Women report being sexually assaulted. Many perished while trying to flee into the desert. “Bodies everywhere and people bleeding and no one to help them,” said Tajal Rahman, now sheltering in a displacement camp west of the city.

Satellite imagery analyzed by Yale Humanitarian Research Lab shows clusters of objects and reddish stains on the hospital grounds, consistent with mass killings. Evidence of systematic executions has also been documented elsewhere in the city. Caitlin Howarth, director of conflict analytics at Yale, warned: “We’re not looking at small numbers… eventually, there will be thousands.”

The RSF, whose roots lie in the Janjaweed militias accused of genocide in Darfur in 2003, has been formally recognized by the US as having committed genocide. Civilians fleeing the violence tell of being stripped of belongings, extorted, and left to die, with the true scale of suffering likely never to be fully known.

El Fasher has become a symbol of unimaginable human cruelty, a city where fear, loss, and grief now dominate every street.