43 attacks on health sites in el-Fasher, the BBC says
The investigation documents at least 43 attacks on health sites during the city's siege and fall. UN human rights chief Volker Türk said the attacks may amount to war crimes, while the RSF rejected the findings.
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Sudan's Rapid Support Forces systematically attacked hospitals during the siege and capture of el-Fasher, a BBC investigation says, prompting the UN human rights chief to raise possible war crimes.
The investigation, published on October 22, 2026, documented at least 43 separate attacks on hospitals and other healthcare sites between May 2024 and October 2025. Some facilities were hit repeatedly as medical workers moved patients and equipment from one damaged site to another.
The findings describe the progressive destruction of care in a city caught in Sudan's civil war, which began between the RSF and the Sudanese military in April 2023. By the RSF's takeover of el-Fasher, in Darfur, in October 2025, the BBC said Saudi Hospital was the city's only functioning health facility.
Volker Türk, the UN high commissioner for human rights, called the findings "deeply disturbing". He said his office's own monitoring showed that the RSF repeatedly struck major hospitals and makeshift health facilities, damaging or destroying them and undermining access to care for thousands of civilians.
Türk said attacks on civilian infrastructure, including health facilities, were serious violations of international humanitarian law. His assessment is not a court judgment.
The RSF rejected the findings through its health minister, Dr Alaa Eldin Nugud, who described the allegations as "propaganda". He said the medics and other witnesses were aligned with the Sudanese army and its allies.
