RSF shelling kills 3 in Abu Shouk camp, North Darfur

December 26, 2024 (EL FASHER) – Three people were killed and several others injured on Thursday when the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) shelled the Abu Shouk displacement camp in El Fasher, the capital of North Darfur.

The camp, located in the northern part of El Fasher, houses around 600,000 displaced people. It has been repeatedly subjected to artillery fire by the RSF, forcing 60% of its residents to flee to the town of Tawila and other areas in the Jebel Marra mountains.

A statement issued by the Abu Shouk Emergency Room said, “At least three people were killed and three others injured when shells fired by the RSF landed in the Abu Shouk camp.”

The statement strongly condemned the RSF’s targeting of unarmed displaced people within the camp, saying that the camp’s residents have become “fuel and victims in a senseless war that has nothing to do with them.”

On December 24, the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC), a global tool for measuring hunger, declared a famine in the Abu Shouk camp in North Darfur, along with five other areas in Sudan.

Since April, the RSF has imposed a tight siege on El Fasher, preventing the passage of commercial convoys and restricting humanitarian aid, exacerbating the suffering of the population.