Fighting between the Sudanese Armed Forces and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces has pushed Sudan’s fragile health system to the brink, with hospitals increasingly caught on the front lines.

On Feb. 3, a drone strike on Al-Shartai Health Center in Kadugli, the state capital of South Kordofan, killed eight civilians — five of them children — and wounded 11 others, according to the Sudan Doctors Network.

In a statement on X, the group said the RSF carried out the attack. The Geneva-based Committee for Justice said the strike had rendered the health center out of service at a time when the city was already facing severe humanitarian challenges.

The organization added in a Feb. 4 statement that targeting medical facilities and civilians “constitutes a grave violation of international humanitarian law and amounts to a war crime.”