Cairo: Egypt on Thursday denounced recent violent attacks launched by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) against civilians in Sudan's Gezira state. In a press release, the Egyptian Foreign Ministry said Cairo monitors with extreme concern the happenings in Gezira state and the RSF's attacks on innocent civilians, including children, women, and old people. It underlined that Egypt condemns in the strongest terms the blatant aggression that led to the displacement of thousands of people and constituted a flagrant breach of international humanitarian law, while calling for keeping Sudanese national institutions intact as the sole way to maintain this Arab country's unity and territorial integrity. According to Kuwait News Agency, Sudan's paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) had reportedly killed at least 124 people in a village in the country's Gezira State. The Egyptian Foreign Ministry echoed its call for ensuring an immediate ceasefire and putting the Jeddah Declaration of Commitment to Protect t he Civilians of Sudan in place, vowing that it would spare no effort to stop bloodshed in Sudan and help it find a way out of the crisis.
