LONDON: Drone attacks in Sudan by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces targeting civilians and humanitarian operations are “heinous acts” that cannot be justified, Saudi Arabia told the UN Security Council on Thursday.
The Kingdom “condemns in the most harsh of terms the criminal attacks by the RSF,” said the Saudi ambassador to the UN, Abdulaziz Alwasil.
He referenced strikes on a military hospital and World Food Programme operations, an attack on a bus, and blasts that have killed dozens of civilians, including women and children. The RSF, he said, has also targeted humanitarian convoys in the Kordofan region, which is now one of the main battlegrounds in the war.
“We call on everyone to abide by their moral and humanitarian obligations” to ensure humanitarian access in keeping with the principles of international law, Alwasil said.
The Sundanese Armed Forces and the RSF have been locked in a devastating civil war since April 2023. The latter group, led by Mohammed Hamdan Dagalo, commonly known as Hemedti, is accused of widespread atrocities and has increasingly resorted to drone attacks on battlefields in Kordofan.
