Sudanese Army Warplanes Drop Barrel Bombs on West Darfur

 Sudanese fleeing violence in West Darfur (Reuters)
Sudanese fleeing violence in West Darfur (Reuters)
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Sudanese Army Warplanes Drop Barrel Bombs on West Darfur

 Sudanese fleeing violence in West Darfur (Reuters)
Sudanese fleeing violence in West Darfur (Reuters)

Sudanese army's warplanes on Sunday dropped barrel bombs on sites in the cities of Nyala and El Daein in the Darfur region, west of the country, killing and injuring a number of civilians, and destroying several public service facilities and residences.
“The coup warplanes and the remnants of the old regime bombed populated areas and committed a new violation,” the Rapid Support Forces said in a statement posted on their X account.
Local sources said the warplanes dropped explosive barrels on homes in El Geneina city in West Darfur, causing major destruction. A woman and four civilians were killed in the airstrike that hit the civilian neighborhood of Al-Naseem.
According to the same sources, the Army targeted areas situated far from the military positions where the RSF are positioned. They added that one of the barrels fell on a cemetery in the city.
Several eyewitnesses also said that the airstrikes destroyed dozens of nearby homes.
On Saturday night, the Sudanese Army warplanes bombed Nyala, the capital of South Darfur.
An RSF statement said the “treacherous army aircraft deliberately destroyed a women’s hospital, the customs building and nearby buildings and the main gas depot, causing major destruction.”
Also, tens of people were killed by random shelling, and significant damage was recorded in a number of residential buildings, the statement said.
“The RSF condemn these acts and practices that constitute war crimes,” it said, stressing that the fight against the remnants of the isolated regime will not stop.
Meanwhile, the Darfur Justice and Peace Initiative, an independent body, said that residents of Nyala and El Geneina, “woke up to the sounds of explosive barrels, which killed and injured a number of civilians, including women and children.”
In a statement, it denounced “the targeting of civilians on ethnic and regional grounds,” stressing that the residents of both cities have nothing to do with the war.
Separately, the Sudanese Army and the RSF exchanged artillery shelling in the city of El Fasher, the capital of North Darfur, amid a massive wave of displacement to other safe areas in light of difficult humanitarian conditions.



Israel Ups Bombing in Central Gaza, Strikes Kill 17 People

27 November 2024, Palestinian Territories, Nuseirat: Palestinians inspect the al-Qassam Mosque and surrounding buildings where Israeli army attacked and caused a big destruction in the Nuseirat Refugee Camp in central Gaza. Photo: Omar Ashtawy  Apaimages/APA Images via ZUMA Press Wire/dpa
27 November 2024, Palestinian Territories, Nuseirat: Palestinians inspect the al-Qassam Mosque and surrounding buildings where Israeli army attacked and caused a big destruction in the Nuseirat Refugee Camp in central Gaza. Photo: Omar Ashtawy Apaimages/APA Images via ZUMA Press Wire/dpa
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Israel Ups Bombing in Central Gaza, Strikes Kill 17 People

27 November 2024, Palestinian Territories, Nuseirat: Palestinians inspect the al-Qassam Mosque and surrounding buildings where Israeli army attacked and caused a big destruction in the Nuseirat Refugee Camp in central Gaza. Photo: Omar Ashtawy  Apaimages/APA Images via ZUMA Press Wire/dpa
27 November 2024, Palestinian Territories, Nuseirat: Palestinians inspect the al-Qassam Mosque and surrounding buildings where Israeli army attacked and caused a big destruction in the Nuseirat Refugee Camp in central Gaza. Photo: Omar Ashtawy Apaimages/APA Images via ZUMA Press Wire/dpa

Israeli military strikes killed at least 17 Palestinians across the Gaza Strip on Thursday, medics said, as forces stepped up bombardments on central areas and pushed tanks deeper in the north and south of the enclave.
Six people were killed in two separate air strikes on a house and near the hospital of Kamal Adwan in Beit Lahiya in the northern Gaza Strip, while four others were killed when an Israeli strike hit a motorcycle in Khan Younis in the south, Reuters said.
In Nuseirat, one of the Gaza Strip's eight historic refugee camps, Israeli planes carried out several airstrikes destroying a multi-floor building and hitting roads outside mosques. At least seven people were killed in some of those strikes, health officials said.
Medics said at least two people, a woman and a child, were killed in tank shelling that hit western areas of Nuseirat, while an airstrike killed five others in a house nearby.
In Rafah, near the border with Egypt, tanks pushed deeper into the northern-west area of the city, residents said.
There has been no Israeli comment on the fighting in Gaza overnight and early Thursday.
Israel's 13-month campaign in Gaza, with the avowed intent of eradicating Hamas militants, has killed nearly 44,200 people and displaced nearly all the enclave's population at least once, according to Gaza officials. Vast swathes of the territory are in ruins.
The war was launched in response to an attack by Hamas-led fighters who killed around 1,200 people and captured more than 250 hostages in Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, Israel has said.
Months of attempts to negotiate a ceasefire have yielded scant progress, and negotiations are now on hold. Mediator Qatar has suspended its efforts until the sides are prepared to make concessions.
A ceasefire in the parallel conflict between Israel and Hamas' Lebanese ally Hezbollah took effect before dawn on Wednesday, bringing a halt to hostilities that had escalated sharply in recent months and overshadowed the conflict in Gaza.
Announcing the Lebanon accord on Tuesday, US President Joe Biden said he would now renew his push for an elusive agreement in Gaza, urging Israel and Hamas to seize the moment.