GENEVA: Sudan’s South Kordofan region has seen attacks on three health facilities in the past week alone, leaving more than 30 dead, the World Health Organziation said Sunday.
“Sudan’s health system is under attack again,” WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus warned on X.
The Sudanese army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces have been at war since April 2023, with the conflict killing tens of thousands of people, displacing millions more and triggering one of the world’s worst humanitarian crises.
In the central Sudanese region of Kordofan, where fighting is now concentrated, Tedros said the health system had faced numerous attacks.
“This week alone, three health facilities were attacked in South Kordofan, in a region already suffering acute malnutrition,” he said.
On February 3, he said an attack on a primary health center killed eight people — five children and three women — and injured 11.
Then a day later, “a hospital was attacked killing one person,” he said.
And “on February 5, another attack on a hospital killed 22 people — including 4 health workers — and injured 8,” the WHO chief said.
“The whole world should get behind Sudan’s peace initiative to end violence, protect the people and rebuild the health system,” he insisted.
“The best medicine is peace.”
WHO says more than 30 killed in three Sudan health center attacks
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WHO says more than 30 killed in three Sudan health center attacks
- The attacks took place in South Kordofan region - the war's main battleground
- WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus warns Sudan's health system is under attack
Israeli military says unintentionally struck UN agency truck in Gaza
- “Our teams are taking extraordinary risks every day to keep humanitarian operations and life-sustaining services running,” UNOPS Executive Director Jorge Moreira da Silva said in a statement, calling for an investigation into the incident
TEL AVIV: Israel’s military said on Friday that a “firing component” launched by its navy unintentionally struck a fuel truck belonging to a United Nations agency in Gaza the previous day, an incident that prompted the agency to publicly call for a full investigation.
The United Nations Office for Project Services, which oversees fuel distribution in Gaza, said that the empty fuel truck was struck on Thursday around 5 a.m. from the direction of the sea, causing damage to the vehicle. There were no injuries.
“Our teams are taking extraordinary risks every day to keep humanitarian operations and life-sustaining services running,” UNOPS Executive Director Jorge Moreira da Silva said in a statement, calling for an investigation into the incident.
“They should not have to do that under fire,” he said.
In response to Reuters questions, the Israeli military said that the incident occurred during defensive naval activity, and that a firing component deviated from its intended trajectory.
The fuel truck sustained “minor damage,” the military said in a statement. The military did not say what type of munitions had been fired, or what had been the navy’s intended target.
“The incident was reviewed, and lessons were learned accordingly,” it said, without providing further details.
The fuel truck had been on its way to the Kerem Shalom crossing when it was struck, and the truck’s movements had been coordinated with Israeli authorities in advance, UNOPS said.
