Khartoum: Rhino – Abu Zabad Emergency Room announced today, Saturday, that the Sudanese army’s unmanned aerial vehicles carried out an attack targeting two schools used as shelters for displaced persons in the city of Abu Zabad in West Kordofan state, killing eight civilians, including children and displaced persons, while others were seriously injured.
The chamber added in a statement that the bombing was carried out by two warplanes that dropped bombs on the Osama bin Zayd School and the Al-Wefaq School, as well as nearby houses, killing eight people. It confirmed that the attack did not target any military sites, but rather that the two schools targeted had been used as shelters for displaced persons since the outbreak of armed conflict in the country.
The statement noted that this bombing came less than a month after a previous airstrike targeted a girls’ secondary school in the same city, reflecting a recurring pattern of targeting civilians and vital facilities.
The statement described the incident as a “documented war crime.”
The Emergency Room expressed its strong condemnation of what it described as a “repeated campaign against civilians,” stressing that these attacks are not based on any military justification and constitute a flagrant violation of international humanitarian law. It called on the international community to intervene urgently to protect civilians and stop the targeting of shelters and educational facilities in conflict areas.
The following is a list of the names of those killed:
(*) Secretary Al-Basha Hassan (60 years old), displaced from Habila (*) Mariam Balila Al-Wakil (45 years old), displaced from Habila (*) Nasrin Mirghani Ahmed (19 years old), displaced from Omdurman (*) Hanan Qadim (19 years old), displaced from Omdurman (*) Ismail Abdul Hamid Al-Haj (16 years old) (*) Ibrahim (16 years old) (*) Mustafa Abdul Hamid Al-Haj (5 years old) (*) Mustafa Ibrahim Mustafa (12 years old.
The injured are:
(*) Jamila Saeed Al-Zayed (25 years old) – displaced (*) Baraa Abdul Hamid Al-Haj (5 years old) (*) Abdul Hamid Al-Haj (49 years old) – head of the family (*) Nasr al-Din Abdul Hamid al-Haj (19 years old) (*) Mahasen Mustafa (14 years old) – displaced from Habila (*) Hadiya Abdullah Ali Abkar (7 years old) – displaced from Habila.
