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Al-Jazeera Net correspondents
For the second time in a few days, the residents of Al-Fatihab neighborhood in the city of Omdurman, west of the capital, Khartoum, are paying with their lives to search for a source of water after the supply networks went out of service, due to the failure of engineers and technicians to reach and operate them in light of the intensification of the fighting.
Thus, the flowing water sources that remained scarce also became a source of great danger, in light of the deadly attacks on the gatherings of citizens around them, which led to the killing and wounding of a number of them.
In the last week, clashes have renewed between the Sudanese army and the Rapid Support Forces in the city of Omdurman, especially in the Mohandessin and Al-Fatihab areas, which led to the spread of a state of terror among civilians.
Death is easier than thirst
And it seemed that indifference to the deadly projectiles was easier for the people than dying of thirst, according to Hajj Suleiman Hamid, who, like others, could no longer bear waiting for the water to return to his house.
Suleiman and thousands of others find themselves in direct confrontation with the dangerous projectiles that were fired at their gatherings, killing some of them and fleeing others.
The people’s queues in the Sudanese capital, with its three cities (Khartoum, Omdurman and Bahri) and their gatherings in front of the water sources available in the markets, have also become targets of merciless bombing, which many likened to the “genocide” that has been going on since the outbreak of war between the Sudanese army and the Rapid Support Forces in mid-April. last April.
The fighting – according to the International Organization for Migration of the United Nations – led to the flight of more than 700,000 Sudanese outside the capital, to become displaced within their country.
Omdurman market
Who will compensate people who lost their homes, places to eat, and the misery of their lives???!!
Are the merchants of war???!!
Oh God, you are the mighty avenger.
May God be kind to Sudan and its people and facilitate their safe exit from this war that has exhausted them and made them homeless.#No_to_war_in_Sudan#You _ must _ stand#support_conversations_jeddah pic.twitter.com/5FnugjdmL2– Sawsan M.Sinada (@SawsanMustafaS) June 9, 2023
Death at the source of water
The day before yesterday, Wednesday, about 30 Sudanese and about 70 cows and 109 camels were killed in the Al-Muwaileh market for selling livestock, west of Omdurman, as a result of attacks carried out by a warplane on the market crowded with civilians.
Dozens were also injured when gatherings were targeted around water sources or in small markets on the outskirts of the cities of Khartoum and Bahri, which were established by citizens to obtain their daily needs.
“We came to ask for drinking water, and we found the death machine eagerly waiting for us,” said one of the injured, Hudhaifa Othman.
He asked, “Is the water cutoff intended to make us die of thirst? Otherwise, how do they think of bombing civilian gatherings in neighborhoods, whether they are shopping or searching for drinking water, as is our case?!”.
Hajj Kamal, the father of the young Musa – who was hit by a projectile that killed him – was overcome with tears as he wondered about the justification for targeting civilians in this way.
The authorities in Khartoum announced that the Rapid Support Forces had taken control of the majority of the water distribution stations in the capital, which meant that they were out of service and the drinking water supply to about 70% of the residential neighborhoods had stopped.
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