Since the outbreak of the war between SAF and RSF in mid-April 2023, El Fasher city, the capital of North Darfur state, has witnessed bloody battles that lasted for long and intermittent periods. The war in the state, after the May 10th, 2024 entered a different stage due to the siege imposed by RSF, preventing the delivery of consumer goods and humanitarian relief materials, including life-saving medicines, as well as the disruption of "Golo" water station by the RSF before the joint forces took control of the area. Since last May until today, El Fasher has not been calm and it suffers from clashes between the armed and joint forces and the popular resistance forces that defend the city on the one hand, and the RSF that are trying to control the city on the other. The city also suffers from deliberate indiscriminate shelling by RSF on densely populated civilian areas, including markets, IDPs camps, shelters, service facilities, hospitals, and places of worship. In clear contravention of the rules of the Geneva Convention relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons, the prohibition of their deliberate targeting, and the prohibition of the targeting of civilian objects and indiscriminate shelling, which in their entirety constitute serious crimes.
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