Dozens of Worshippers Killed in RSF Drone Strike on Mosque in El-Fashir

 

El-Fashir — Sudanese Echoes

 

 

More than 70 civilians, including local community leaders, were killed on Friday in a drone strike carried out by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) that targeted a mosque in El-Fashir, the capital of North Darfur State.

 

 

The attack, which struck a civilian facility, came just one day after fierce clashes between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and their allied armed movements against the RSF in various parts of the city. During those battles, RSF fighters briefly reached a military site belonging to the Joint Force before being repelled.

 

 

Eyewitnesses and medical workers told Sudan Tribune that they had “recovered more than 70 bodies from under the rubble after an RSF drone targeted a mosque in Al-Daraja Al-Oula neighborhood.”

 

 

The drone-fired missiles completely destroyed the mosque, which sources attributed to the strength of the weapons used.

 

 

The Sudanese Doctors’ Network said, in a statement, that at least 43 people were killed inside the mosque while performing dawn prayers, after it was struck by an RSF drone.

 

 

 

The statement noted that the victims included both elderly people and youth, while others sustained critical injuries and were taken to medical centers.

 

 

The network described the incident as a “full-fledged war crime” and a blatant violation of international humanitarian law and religious values.

 

 

It called on the international community, the United Nations, and the African Union to act urgently to halt such attacks, ensure the protection of civilians, and open humanitarian corridors to deliver food and medicine to the city, which it described as disaster-stricken.

 

 

The statement further warned that continued international silence would amount to indirect complicity with the perpetrators of these crimes, risking further deterioration of the humanitarian situation in El-Fashir and jeopardizing thousands of civilian lives.