Deadly drone attack targets hospital in Sudan’s Darfur
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WHO: Drone Strike Kills 70 at Sudan's Last Functioning Hospital
Above: A Sudanese army soldier mans a machine gun on top of a military pickup truck outside a hospital in Omdurman on Nov. 2, 2024. Image copyright: Amaury Falt-Brown/Contributor/AFP via Getty Images
The Spin
Narrative A
Attacking a hospital when it was full of patients receiving care is nothing short of a massacre and a violation of international law. Sudan's people need peace and protection of their medical and humanitarian workers. Civilians in El Fasher have already endured months of suffering, violence, and gross human rights abuses under the prolonged siege. This reprehensible behavior and the barbaric actions of the militia must end immediately.
Narrative B
The raging violence currently afflicting the people of Sudan will not cease until the US and UK publicly condemn the UAE's role in fueling the Sudanese war. Punishing the RSF will make the humanitarian situation more dire for the civilians — it's the responsibility of Western actors to challenge the UAE's efforts to secure political and economic hegemony at the cost of democracy in Sudan.