Al-Fasher- The displaced people from the Zamzam camp, in the northwest of Sudan, suffer from complex humanitarian conditions following almost daily attacks and intensive artillery bombing launched by the rapid support forces since December 2024 after a seat that has Located more than three months, like these forces launched on February 9, a land attack that killed and injured a number of people.
These attacks cause the suffering of residents of the camp of more than half a million inappropriate people, most of them fled their original areas at the start of the armed conflict in Darfur in 2003, and these displaced people live in Difficult conditions and face major challenges in obtaining food, water and medicines, which increases their daily suffering.
Feelings of fear and anxiety increase among the residents of the camp, while the displaced people express their dissatisfaction with the ignorance of the international community of their tragedy, and many of them have lost hope of Improve their conditions, in light of repeated attacks, causing more people to move more people, which has increased pressure on already limited resources.
Despite international calls repeated to stop these attacks, the rapid support forces continue their attacks on the camp piled up of the displays without any consideration of these calls, while the displaced persons are impatiently awaiting an urgent intervention by the international community to respond to their basic needs.
Complaints
The rapid support forces claim that they do not target civilians and that their fire is directed to military bases belonging to the Sudan liberation movement led by Mona Arko Minawi and the current Minister of Finance Gabriel Ibrahim, and these allegations contradict the daily conditions of displaced people. who live under the constant bombardment.
A few days ago, the rapid support forces showed videos from the interior of the camp, showing their soldiers when they went down the Minawi movement from one of the bases.
In this context, the spokesperson for the joint force, Lieutenant-Colonel Ahmed Hussein Mustafa, denied the accusations against the rapid support forces, stressing that armed movements do not have military platforms inside the camp And pointed out that rapid support targets civil isolation, which requires urgent action by the international community to arrest these violations.
Addressing Al -jazeera Net, Mustafa said that “targeting the move in the camp is within the framework of an ethnic cleaning campaign led by the militia and its tribal allies on the residents of the camp, which were Forcibly moved during the first and genocide of the second group.
He stressed that this represents “a continuation of his crimes against humanity, which has not stopped since the start of his severe war against the Sudanese people”, and stressed that the displaced in the camp faces difficult conditions represented in lack of food and medicine.
It should be noted that the rapid support forces attacked in November 2023 four states of Darfur, southern, east, west and center, and are currently looking to control the area, which has led to the Fire of areas and the bloody massacres commission.
Last April, the armed movements of Al-Fasher abandoned their neutrality and announced their support for the Sudanese army, which prompted the support forces to assist the city and the neighboring Zamzam camp.
Lieutenant-Colonel Mustafa said that the rapid support forces “before launching their attack on the Zamzam camp, burned 45 villages in the north of the city of Kumm, in addition to a certain number of villages in the south and west of the camp “.
He explained that these forces carried out an intensive media campaign in order to agree with legitimacy to lead the attack on the camp and stressed that the senior management of the Zamzam camp published a declaration confirming that it does not There is no military presence of Common forced.
The rapid support forces also confirmed it by a video published by members of Janjaweed when they entered the Zamzam camp, as they said: “We assisted and we did not find you, jointly “, which is clear proof of the absence of joint force in the camp of the move.
Zamzam tragedy
According to Mohamed Khamis Doda, the spokesperson for the displaced people from the Zamzam camp, the rapid attack on the support forces against the camp killed 39 civilians, 13 women, 17 children and 9 men.
Addressing Al -jazeera Net, he referred to the fire of 37 houses, to the destruction of around 8,000 commercial stores and 4 mosques and the disturbance of 11 sources of water, which increased the suffering from the displaced and also mentioned that all the upper districts of service organizations and institutions have become out of service.
In addition, a dozen people were taken to the Qalab region, west of Zamzam, where they were used as sponsors of looted livestock, and Khamis Doda stressed the need to conduct an international survey and hold the authors of these responsible crimes.
The Zamzam camp for the move in Darfur is of great military importance and security for the rapid support forces, and focuses on it by repeating the attacks and trying to empty the population in preparation for an attempt to Check the city of El Fasher.
Three people from the Zamzam camp, which Al -jazeera Net told them, confirmed that fast support elements burned the stores as soon as they entered the camp and indicated that looting affected most of the stores, in More to steal a number of cars and burn some of them. They stressed that these actions are in the context of rapid support attempts to improve camp control.
According to sources on the ground, he spoke to Al -jazeera Net, the enlightened civilians, the Sudanese army and the movements of the armed struggle play a leading role in the fight against the repeated attacks against the city of El Fasher and the Zamzam camp, and at the same time the Sudanese government forces make regular air flights to target rapid support rallies near Al-Fasher, which has led to the dispersion of a large number of They towards the cities of Nyala, Kikbiya and Al -Dakhine.
It should be noted that the attempts of Al-Jazeera Net to communicate with the quick support command did not bear fruit to obtain results, because they received no response on what was going on in the camp of Zamzam.
Displacement and displacement
Humanitarian aid commissioner in Darfur du Nord, Abbas Youssef, announced that around 25,000 families had been moved from the Zamzam camp following the attacks by the rapid camp support forces.
He underlined, in local declarations, the need to intervene quickly to save the displaced by providing food and one shelter, and also indicated that around 15,000 families had been moved from the areas of the shakra and the QULO before ‘Attack on Zamzam, warning of worsening the worsening of the humanitarian conditions of the region, if they are not immediate measures.
In this context, the city of El Fasher and the camp attends a large civilian race, including women, who are looking for weapons to protect themselves and their symptoms, because these civilians feel the need to prepare to counter any attack potential by rapid support for the city.
Ahmed Ali, one of the young people on the camp, told Al -jazeera Net that he had decided to take up arms after losing his house and all he had, and he added: “I had Another choice but to defend myself and defend myself and my property, when you see your family in danger to make difficult decisions.
He continued: “I could not when I saw my friends and my families attacking, which prompted me to join a group of young people who decided to protect the camp by carrying weapons”, but in Even time, he stressed the importance of providing the necessary support for civilians by the international community so that they do not transform into combatants in a conflict that can continue until the rapid support forces disappear, as He said it.
United Nations concern
For its part, the United Nations expressed its concern this month concerning the climbing of fighting in the Zamzam camp for the displaced areas and its surroundings, in the midst of the growing attacks of the rapid support forces.
According to the Humanitarian Coordination Office, satellite reports and images indicate the use of heavy weapons in the battles and the destruction of the main market area, as international camp NGOs reported that large human losses have been produced among civilians, including a number of humanitarian workers.
At a press conference held in New York, UN spokesperson Stephen Dujarric said that “Zamzam camp is hosting hundreds of thousands of people inappropriate, and it is one of Sudan sites in Sudan in Sudan Which the famine conditions have been identified, which makes reports to destroy the area of the camp in particular.
Dujarric added that the World Food Program and its partners work to provide food aid to around 300,000 people displaced in the Zamzam camp and its environment, noting that the last cycle of violence “offered families and vital rescue operations for more risks “.
The conflicting parties have also called for their obligations under international humanitarian law, stressing that attacks on civilians and civil infrastructures are prohibited, and that all parties must take measures to protect civilians from damage and allow those who want to leave the area to do it safely and generous.