PARIS: Sudanese security forces stormed a hospital to pursue people seeking treating from gunshot wounds sustained during protests against President Omar al-Bashir, Amnesty International said Thursday.
Soldiers fired live bullets and teargas as they entered the hospital late Wednesday in Omdurman, twin city of the capital Khartoum, roughing up doctors and patients, the rights group said.
"This attack on a hospital is an outrageous violation of international law," Amnesty's deputy director for East Africa, Sarah Jackson, said in a statement.
Wednesday's rally in Omdurman was the latest in weeks of street protests over the government's decision to triple the price of bread.
Riot police fired tear gas at hundreds of protesters and the government confirmed Thursday that three people had died.
That brought the official death toll from the protests so far to 22.
But Amnesty said more than 40 had been killed in more than 380 protests against rising living costs since December 19, and more than 1,000 arrested.
Jackson called on the government to take "immediate action to stop the practice of shooting protesters and respect the Sudanese people's right to freedom of expression".
A doctor told AFP late Wednesday that six protesters were being treated at Omdurman's main hospital for gunshot wounds.
Amnesty did not say if the soldiers detained any of the patients.
Sudan police use tear gas as protests kill three
Sudan police use tear gas as protests kill three
- Police chased demonstrators into side roads
- Protesters have been staging demonstrations almost daily for weeks
Israel agrees to ‘limited reopening’ of Rafah crossing: PM’s office
- The announcement came after visiting US envoys reportedly pressed Israeli officials to reopen the crossing, a vital entry point for aid into Gaza
JERUSALEM: Israel said Monday it would allow a “limited reopening” of the Rafah border crossing between Gaza and Egypt once it had recovered the remains of the last hostage in the Palestinian territory.
The announcement came after visiting US envoys reportedly pressed Israeli officials to reopen the crossing, a vital entry point for aid into Gaza.
Reopening Rafah forms part of a Gaza truce framework announced by US President Donald Trump in October, but the crossing has remained closed after Israeli forces took control of it during the war.
The Israeli military also said it was searching a cemetery in the Gaza Strip on Sunday for the remains of the last hostage, Ran Gvili, a non-commissioned officer in the police’s elite Yassam unit.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office said the reopening would depend on “the return of all living hostages and a 100 percent effort by Hamas to locate and return all deceased hostages,” Netanyahu’s office said on X.
It said Israel’s military was “currently conducting a focused operation to exhaust all of the intelligence that has been gathered in the effort to locate and return” Gvili’s body.
“Upon completion of this operation, and in accordance with what has been agreed upon with the US, Israel will open the Rafah Crossing,” it said.
