Nine days since the UN Security Council called for an end to the fighting in El Fasher, Sudan Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) – one of the few international humanitarian organisations still present in the city – warns that hospitals continue to be attacked, and that no outside help can reach the city due to the intensity of the violence. 

On the night of Friday 21 June, Rapid Support Forces (RSF) shelling hit the pharmacy of the MSF-supported Saudi hospital in El Fasher. A pharmacist was killed while on her shift, and the pharmacy building was damaged.

Although the hospital remains open and is still treating patients today, it has been damaged and is only partially functional. More supplies are urgently needed to continue to treat the wounded, and a further attack is feared due to the continued fighting close by. Yesterday, one person was killed just 200 metres away from the hospital and a third person was killed close to MSF’s staff accommodation. The total number of people injured on Friday is not known.