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A new investigation has linked at least 384 Sudanese Armed Forces airstrikes to mass civilian casualties across Sudan between 2023 and 2025. Researchers found repeated use of unguided bombs in densely populated neighborhoods, destroying homes, markets and protected sites including hospitals, schools and displacement camps. Darfur suffered the deadliest attacks, with strikes on RSF-held areas causing widespread civilian harm due to lack of precision weapons. The report warns the true toll is far higher and adds to mounting evidence of potential war crimes.

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00:29Sudan's civil war has entered a devastating new phase.
00:37A two-year investigation by the Sudan Witness Project, a UK-backed initiative that documents
00:43human rights abuses, has revealed that the Sudanese Armed Forces have carried out hundreds
00:50of airstrikes that have killed more than 1,700 civilians.
00:59The analysis, shared exclusively with the BBC, tracks 384 airstrikes between April 2023 and
01:08July 2025.
01:13Investigators say the military relied heavily on unguided bombs, dropped on some of the most
01:19densely populated parts of the country.
01:23Residential neighborhoods were hit at least 135 times.
01:27Homes, apartment blocks, and basic civilian infrastructure were torn apart.
01:33In 35 separate incidents, markets packed with shoppers were bombed, some of them at peak hours.
01:42One strike on the Hamrad's al-Sheikh market killed at least 30 people and injured 100 more.
01:49The report also documents repeated attacks on locations that should be protected under international
02:00law.
02:01Hospitals, schools, and camps for displaced families.
02:0419 verified strikes hit these vulnerable sites.
02:10In one case in August 2024, a hospital in the eastern Darfur city of El Dayane was bombed.
02:1816 civilians died, including three children and a healthcare worker.
02:24Even an armed group allied with the Sudanese Armed Forces condemned the attack as indiscriminate.
02:33Investigators note that many of the deadliest airstrikes occurred in Darfur, territory controlled
02:39by the military's rival, the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces.
02:44The SAF claims it was targeting RSF supply lines and drone shipments.
02:50But researchers say the military lacks precision weapons, making accurate strikes in crowded areas
02:57nearly impossible.
02:59The SAF has repeatedly denied hitting civilians, insisting its operations focus only on legitimate
03:07military targets.
03:09But the Sudan Witness Project says the pattern is unmistakable, repeated bombings of places where
03:16civilians live, work, and seek refuge.
03:20Human rights monitors warn that these findings add to a growing body of evidence suggesting
03:27both sides in Sudan's war have committed war crimes.
03:31But the new dataset, the largest of its kind, points to the Sudanese Armed Forces as responsible
03:38for some of the most lethal and destructive attacks of the conflict.
03:43And as the war grinds on, investigators say the true scale of the civilian death toll is
03:50almost certainly far higher than what can be verified on the ground.
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