Guardian investigation reveals at least 119 direct attacks on hospitals and delivery wards since start of wars in Ukraine, Gaza and Sudan
Thirty women were sheltering in the Saudi maternity hospital in El Fasher, Sudan, on 28 October when the massacre began. Some had just given birth and others were still in labour.
Working at the hospital that night, lab technician Abdo-Rabo Ahmed, 28, was one of the few known survivors. “I heard the voices of women and children screaming,” he says. “They were killing everybody inside the hospital. Those of us who were able to run, did.”
In one of the most horrifying incidents of the north African country’s two-year civil war, armed soldiers from the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), which has been fighting the Sudanese army, stormed the hospital, reportedly killing more than 460 patients and their companions.
It was “an unspeakable atrocity”, say rights groups, and one of the worst recent examples of the collapse in protection for the hundreds of millions of civilians trapped in areas of conflict in Ukraine, Gaza, Myanmar, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and Sudan.
