Al Jazeera Net Correspondents
Khartoum- TO DO Sudanese armyToday, Thursday, a major military operation in the cities Khartoum State The three included land, air and naval forces, during which they advanced across 3 bridges connecting the capital’s cities towards targets. Rapid Support Forces It has taken control of key sites in central Khartoum, a significant development since the fighting that began 17 months ago.
A military official from the Ministry of Defence told Al Jazeera Net that the army had crossed the White Nile, Al-Fitaihab and Halfaya bridges that connect them. Omdurman With Khartoum and Khartoum, Bahrain, it advanced in different directions towards strategic objectives aimed at controlling the center of Khartoum. The forces of Omdurman who stormed the Arab market joined forces with the forces of the general command in the center of Khartoum, which meant completely ending their siege.
The military official explained that the forces of the Engineering Corps, which crossed the Al-Fatihab Bridge and the White Nile, took control of the headquarters of the Bank of Sudan, the Zain Telecom company, the Petrodar oil company, the Coral Hotel, the National Museum, and the Martyrs’ Mosque.
He advanced to the outskirts of the strategic battalion and regained control of the National Medical Laboratory’s “Stack”, thus linking the army’s communication between Omdurman and central, southern and eastern Khartoum.
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The spokesman, who asked not to be named, said the army left the headquarters of the general command in central Khartoum, to the east and west, and destroyed the targets of the rapid support forces. The Signal Corps forces also expanded their deployment in central Khartoum North. such as the forces that crossed the Halfaya Bridge from Omdurman to Khartoum North. The Rapid Support suffered huge losses.
He said the army also carried out an opening in the engineering corps in Al-Ailfoun and Hattab in eastern Nile, alongside Al-Kader’s forces, with the aim of controlling strategic headquarters and roads and breaking the concentrations of rapid support militias. He hoped that the operation would continue for weeks to achieve its goal of liberating the entire capital from “rebel militias.”
The same source reported that the army opened to the west in Omdurman, and the armed forces in Khartoum opened to the south in the neighboring districts, which caused the Rapid Support Forces to flee to the southern regions.
On the other hand, Al-Basha Muhammad Tabiq, advisor to the commander of the Rapid Support Forces, said in a blog post: “Our forces managed to destroy a vehicle of the Sudanese army that was trying to cross the medical weapons bridge in the capitals towards the city of Khartoum.
Objectives of the military operation
For his part, military and security expert Salem Abdullah believes that the army leadership, which has hinted in the recent period at a large-scale operation, aims, with the simultaneous opening of fields in the cities of the capital for the first time since the beginning of the war, to destroy the remaining solid power of the Rapid Support Forces, and increase the pressure on them to push them to collapse and restore the positions they controlled to put pressure on them in the states of Jazira and Sinnar.
According to what the expert told Al Jazeera Net, the timing of the operation coincides with the presence of the president of the Sovereignty Council and the commander of the army in New York and his speech at the UN General Assembly to send messages that the initiative is taking the hands of the army and the rapid support forces back, which improves its political and military position and gives it cards in possible negotiations.
The military expert believes that the army has obtained new weapons and equipment, after dozens of fighters and drones participated in the Khartoum operation and controlled its airspace, and at the same time, other fighters bombed Rapid Support Forces targets around El Fasher in the north. Darfur AndWad Madani The capital of Gezira State and other localities in Sennar State.
Suddenness and synchronicity
The security and military expert rules out that the military operation is decisive for the army to restore in a short period of time all the areas controlled by the Rapid Support Forces in the capital, as the forces are concentrated in their heavy areas in Al-Salha in the south of Omdurman, open to the states of North Kordofan and White Nile, as well as south of Khartoum and east. Nile According to the speaker.
As for the military expert, retired Brigadier General Jamal Al-Shaheed, he says that what distinguishes the army’s military operation is that it was sudden and simultaneous on several axes, which caused the rapid support forces to lose focus, as they were concentrating their forces on one. The military operation was also accompanied by air and ground operations in the states of North Darfur, Al-Jazeera, Sennar and White Nile, which diverted the efforts of its “enemy”.
In an interview with Al Jazeera Net, the military expert believes that the army crossing 3 bridges connecting Omdurman to Khartoum and Khartoum Bahri and regaining control of important sites will open roads and bridges for the movement of citizens after they were closed by the Rapid Support.
According to the spokesman, the Khartoum operation will mark the beginning of the end of the war in Khartoum and will give the army an impetus to end the control of the Rapid Support Forces over the areas of Darfur, Al-Jazeera and Sinnar states. This reflects the decline of the Rapid Support Forces and their low morale, and he hopes that the operation will continue to restore all the sites.
According to him, one of the indicators of the Khartoum operation is the participation of the armed forces with all their land, air and naval units, alongside them the intelligence forces, special forces and assembly forces.
Furthermore, the fact that citizens of Omdurman and Khartoum North Bahri took to the streets in celebration of the army’s deployment, handing out sweets and offering food and iced juices, confirms the support the army finds and the isolation Rapid Support suffers after its deployment. crimes against civilians.