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What the reporting established
Mustapha stated the helicopters bombed the hospital and its medical supplies, then “continued shelling the town of Old Fangak”. “The civilian population has fled and the situation is quite horrific and catastrophic … We are quite shocked.
A spokesperson for South Sudan’s military could not be reached for comment, as documented by The Associated Press news agency. Mamman Mustapha, Head of Mission with MSF in South Sudan, told Al Jazeera from the capital Juba that his team on the ground documented “two helicopter gunships attacking the hospital”.
Protect healthcare.” It stated the attack was “a clear violation of international law”. It was not immediately clear why the facility was targeted.
MSF stated in statement that it “strongly condemned the deliberate bombing of its hospital in Old Fangak” on Saturday and that the attack destroyed the last remaining functioning hospital and pharmacy there in the north of the country. MSF initially urged in an X post: “Stop the bombing.
The UN has warned in recent weeks that the country is on the brink of a new civil war. Fears of renewed war in South Sudan as airstrikes hit Nasir amid deepening rift between top leaders no fewer than seven individuals have been killed and another 20 injured in an attack on a town in South Sudan, the medical charity Doctors Without Borders, known by its French initials MSF, has stated, as fears grow that the world’s youngest nation will relapse into all-out civil war.
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