Israel-backed RSF murders 3 aid workers, wounds 4 more in Sudan

Genocidal troops of the Sudanese so-called ‘Rapid Support Forces’ (RSF) have murdered at least three aid workers and wounded four others in a drone strike. The strike targeted an aid convoy in South Kordofan, according to a report by the Sudan Doctors Network (SDN).

The United Nations has confirmed that the RSF is committing ethnically-based genocide in Sudan, with mass murders of non-Arab civilians. In a social media post, the SDN described the attack as a deliberate targeting of humanitarian workers and of desperately-needed aid, and a “dangerous escalation”:

Sudan Doctors Network: The Rapid Support Forces and the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement–North (al-Hilu faction) targeted an aid convoy, killing three people and injuring four aid workers in South Kordofan.

Humanitarian aid trucks were destroyed by drones belonging to the… pic.twitter.com/k8fGN5Cdwk

— Sudan Doctors Network – شبكة أطباء السودان (@SDN154) February 19, 2026

While the UAE’s alleged support for the RSF has featured in headlines, the group is also covertly backed by Israel and is copying Israel’s tactics in its genocide in Gaza, both in killings and in the propaganda used to whitewash them.

The RSF has changed its self-promotion and positioning in response to Israel’s support. In April 2023, it removed the word “Quds” — the Arabic for Jerusalem — from its logo. The text was actually an acronym for ‘Rapid Support Forces’ in Arabic, but the apparent claim to Jerusalem was bound to offend Israeli sponsors. RSF has also sided with Israel over the Gaza genocide, condemning Palestinian resistance groups as terrorists.

The RSF has killed an estimated 100,000 people in the Sudan genocide since 2023, though the figure may well be higher. The new United Nations report says that the RSF violence meets at least three of five criteria to be classed as genocide. Any one of the five is enough to qualify as genocide.

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