Darfur- In one of the corners of the displacement camp in the city of Tawila, 68 km west of El Fasher, the capital of North Darfur, Mrs. Fatima Abdullah sits on a worn piece of cloth, wearing a light, dusty dress, and stares at the ground in heavy silence.
She did not carry anything with her from her home in the city of El Fasher except what she was wearing at the moment of fleeing, and she is still waiting for news about her son Ali, who was transferred to the Saudi hospital before the fall of the city, and his fate has not been known since then.
Fatima said in a shaking voice to Al Jazeera Net, “He was injured in his leg. They said his condition was stable. Then we heard that the hospital was bombed, and that those in it were liquidated. We do not know if he was alive or buried with those who were buried.”
Mass murder
The Saudi Hospital was the last medical refuge for civilians after the collapse of most health facilities in the city of El Fasher, and at the end of last October it turned into a mass killing field, according to doctors’ testimonies and statements from human rights and medical organizations.
In a statement to the Sudan Doctors Network, it confirmed that “the Rapid Support Forces stormed the Saudi Hospital and killed in cold blood all the patients and companions they found, as well as children and women who were killed, without any regard to humanitarian or moral laws.”
Documented crime
The Sudanese Ministry of Health described what happened as a “crime of genocide,” noting that about 460 patients were inside the hospital at the time of the attack, and none of them were found afterward.
The former nurse at the hospital, “S.M.A.”, fled to the city of Tawila two days before the attack, but he learned from some of his colleagues who had taken refuge in one of the semi-safe villages that the hospital had witnessed repeated bombings before the Rapid Support Forces stormed it and began shooting into patient rooms.
He added to Al Jazeera Net, “I later learned that they killed everyone without exception. No one was allowed to leave, and no body was handed over to its families.”
In displacement camps, dozens of families are waiting for news of their loved ones who were receiving treatment in the hospital. There are no bodies for them, no graves, and no death certificates. Just silence, pain, and waiting.
Mysterious burial
Aisha Muhammad, a widow and mother of two children, told Al Jazeera Net, “My husband was suffering from internal bleeding due to shrapnel from the bombing. We took him to the Saudi hospital a week before the fall of El Fasher, then he disappeared. We do not know if he was dead, taken to another place, or buried without us knowing.” She added, “I just want to know where his body is. I am not asking for anything except to bury him with my own hands.”
With communications completely cut off from the city of El Fasher, accounts varied about the fate of the patients who were inside the hospital. Some of the displaced spoke of mass burials in the vicinity of the facility, while medical sources indicated that the bodies were transported in military vehicles to unknown destinations.
Urgent investigation
Abdullah Ismail, a relief activist who arrived in Tawila a few days ago, says that what happened inside the Saudi hospital goes beyond the limits of violation, and requires an urgent international investigation.
Ismail added to Al Jazeera Net, “We have testimonies from companions who fled hours before the attack, confirming that the patients were alive, and that some of them were waiting for surgical operations. Then they all disappeared, and no body was found.”
He continued, “What happened was not only a mass liquidation, but a deliberate obliteration of evidence. No trace was left, no records, no graves, no pictures. It was as if they were not there in the first place.”
He concludes his speech by saying, “This is a documented crime, but the world refuses to see it. We need investigation teams to enter the field to uncover the fate of these victims.”
About the massacres in El Fasher
Satellite images exposed the disaster in Sudan!
The city of El Fasher has become a literal death box – surrounded by a 9-foot dirt wall, with no entry or exit.
The Rapid Support Forces are walking livestock house by house, executing entire families.
Even patients in the Saudi hospital were killed in their beds!
Images from space show clusters of bodies…– Abdel Hamid Ahmed Hamdy (@ahamdyos) November 2, 2025
International silence
Despite the gravity of the crime, no firm position has yet been issued by the international community, while the World Health Organization expressed its “deep dismay” at the reports, but did not specify the party directly responsible.
In an official statement issued on October 29, the World Health Organization strongly condemned the reported killing of more than 460 patients and their companions, and the kidnapping of 6 health workers (4 doctors, a nurse, and a pharmacist) from inside the Saudi maternity hospital in El Fasher.
The statement added that the hospital was the last partially functioning medical facility in the besieged city, and it was subjected to 4 attacks within one month, the last of which was on October 28, which resulted in the major massacre.
He also pointed out that the health system in El Fasher quickly collapsed under the weight of violence, siege and hunger, and that the fate of employees working in 3 non-governmental organizations is still unknown.
The international organization called for the violation of the sanctity of health care facilities as guaranteed by international humanitarian law, stressing that what happened represents a flagrant violation of humanitarian standards.
Official denial
In an interview with Al Jazeera Mubasher, the spokesman for the Sudanese Constituent Alliance (establishment), Aladdin Naqdallah, denied that any crimes had occurred inside the Saudi Hospital in El Fasher. He said that the hospital was being used by the joint forces as a temporary military site, and not as a medical facility at that time.
Naqdallah added that the video clips circulating on social media, which show “what were said to be liquidation operations inside the hospital, were fabricated and produced using artificial intelligence techniques,” calling for verifying the sources of these materials before adopting them as evidence.
For her part, human rights activist Hala Abdel Karim says that what happened in El Fasher is not an isolated incident, but rather part of a systematic pattern. She stressed that “the liquidation of patients inside an internationally protected medical facility is a flagrant violation of the Geneva Conventions.” She told Al Jazeera Net, “We need an international investigation committee and a court to prosecute those who committed these massacres.”
In Tawila camp, Fatima Abdullah is still waiting. She does not have a phone, nor a photo of her son. She only has a memory burdened with pain, and little hope that she will one day know what happened to him.
She says, wiping her tears with the edge of her dress, “If he dies, I want to know where he is buried. If he is alive, I want to see him. I do not want to die not knowing the fate of my son.”