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Doctors Without Borders (MSF) has reported that Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces (RSF) have shelled Zamzam camp for displaced people, where famine is widespread.
This escalation comes amid efforts by the RSF to tighten its grip on the Darfur region in Sudan’s ongoing war.
Michel-Olivier Lacharite, head of emergency operations at MSF, said in a press release on Monday: “Not only have people been starving, but they are also now being bombarded and forced to flee again.”
The statement described the situation as beyond chaotic, with casualties, injuries, widespread panic, and mass displacement.
It said on Sunday, MSF “received eight injured people, including women and children as young as 4 years old, with severe injuries such as chest trauma and fractures.”
It added that “shelling resumed” on Monday “and struck near an MSF field hospital and a market.”
This “has created a living nightmare for displaced people in Zamzam camp, with casualties, panic, and mass displacement,” the statement added.
According to El Fasher Resistance Committee, at least six people were killed and 13 others injured after more than 20 shells were fired at Zamzam camp on Sunday and Monday.