27/6/2025–|Last update: 23:20 (Mecca time)
13 people, including 3 children, were killed today, Friday, in a shelling by the Rapid Support Forces on Al -Fasher City The besiege in the Darfur region, west of Sudan.
A medical source told the French Press Agency that 21 were also wounded by the artillery shelling carried out by the Rapid Support Militia on the city of El Fasher.
The shelling came just hours after the Transitional Sovereignty Council announced that the army commander Abdel -Fattah Al -Burhan During a phone call with the Secretary -General of the United Nations, Antonio Guterres, he agreed on a weekly humanitarian truce in the Fasher locality, in support of the efforts of the United Nations and in order to facilitate the arrival of relief to thousands of surrounding citizens.
Guterres said on Friday that we are making contacts with both sides to achieve this goal.
However, a source in the Rapid Support Forces told Agence France -Presse that they had not received a suggestion of a ceasefire.
The United Nations has repeatedly warned of the deterioration of the conditions of civilians trapped in the city, as hunger prompted many families to take foliage and peanut scales in light of the lack of almost any assistance.
Civilians say that prices rise dramatically with the absence of health facilities almost completely, after almost all of them were forced to close due to the fighting.
A subsidiary facility was exposed For the World Food Program Inside El -Fasher, for damage as a result of repeated bombing of the Rapid Support Forces last month. At the beginning of June, 5 relief crews were killed in an attack on a US convoy that was seeking to reach the city.
The Rapid Support Forces launched repeated attacks on the city and the displaced camps surrounding it from famine, killing hundreds of civilians and pushing hundreds of thousands of displaced people to flee.
UNICEF described the situation as “hell on the ground” for at least 825,000 children trapped in and around Al -Fasher.
The Rapid Support Forces took control of most of the vast lands of the Darfur region in the first months of the war, but they were unable to control Al -Fasher, the capital of the North State Darfur Despite the siege of the city for more than a year.
Relief sources say that the official announcement of famine is impossible due to the inability to access data, but hunger has already invaded the city.
According to the latest figures available to the United Nations, more than a million people live on the lips Famine In North Darfur.
Of the 10 million people who are displaced internally in Sudan, nearly 20% of them live in North Darfur.
The Sudanese army is fighting And Rapid Support Forces Since mid -April 2023 war has killed more than 20,000 people, displacement and asylum of about 15 million, according to the United Nations and local authorities, while a study prepared by American universities estimated the number of deaths of about 130,000.