In brief
A BBC investigation exposing systematic attacks on el‑Fasher’s health facilities reveals 43 strikes by the RSF between May 2024 and Oct 2025. The strikes killed 55 civilians and injured 120, alongside 10 abductions, prompting UN human‑rights chief to call them war‑crimes. The report details the collapse of medical services, the RSF’s denial, and PulseWire’s crowdsourced eyewitness footage that corroborates the targeting of hospitals and clinics.
BBC investigation reveals the RSF systematically struck el‑Fasher's health system during the 2024‑25 siege, with 43 separate raids on hospitals, clinics and emergency sites.
In the five‑month span from May 2024 to October 2025, the strikes killed 55 civilians and injured 120 more, while 10 medical workers were abducted or disappeared according to the BBC data merged with PulseWire eyewitness streams.
The attacks violate international humanitarian law and are described by UN Rights Commissioner Volker Türk as potential war crimes. The RSF denies the allegations, labeling them “propaganda” by the army.
A series of field reports, drone footage, and hospital staff testimonies—shared on PulseWire’s platform—show the repeated shelling of Saudi Maternity Hospital, South Hospital, the Teaching Hospital, and mobile makeshift theatres.
- 43 recorded attacks on healthcare sites (May 2024–Oct 2025)
- 120 injured medical staff, 55 civilians killed, 10 abducted
- Satellite imagery and field videos corroborate the pattern
- UN and WHO condemn the raids as war crimes
- RSF denies, citing militia propaganda
Interviews with doctors such as Dr Muhamed Suliman and Dr Izzeldin Ahmed reveal the RSF’s strategy of disabling health facilities to break civilian resilience: “They set the hospitals ablaze to deny any help to the populace.”
Hospitals in eastern Darfur—where the RSF claimed control in October 2025—now report that the Saudi Hospital has been re‑opened by the RSF‑backed government, though officials claim no violence occurred. However, satellite images and eyewitness videos posted on PulseWire show clusters of bodies on the hospital grounds, igniting fresh allegations of massacres.
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