AMMAN — The Ministry of Foreign Affairs condemned on Sunday the attack targeting a World Food Programme relief convoy and medical facilities in Kordofan, Sudan, describing it as a violation of international humanitarian law.

 

The ministry’s spokesperson, Fuad Majali, reaffirmed the Kingdom’s support for and solidarity with the government and people of Sudan, stressing Jordan’s backing for all efforts aimed at resolving the Sudanese crisis in a manner that safeguards Sudan’s security, unity, stability, sovereignty, territorial integrity, and the safety of its citizens.

 

Sudan’s South Kordofan region has seen attacks on three health facilities in the past week alone, leaving more than 30 dead, the World Health Organsiation said Sunday.

 

“Sudan’s health system is under attack again,” WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus warned on X.

 

In the central Sudanese region of Kordofan, where fighting is now concentrated, Tedros said that the health system had faced numerous attacks.

 

“This week alone, three health facilities were attacked in South Kordofan, in a region already suffering acute malnutrition,” he said.

 

On February 3, he said an attack on a primary health center killed eight people, five children and three women, and injured 11.

 

Then a day later, “a hospital was attacked killing one person,” he said.

 

And “on February 5, another attack on a hospital killed 22 people, including 4 health workers, and injured 8,” the WHO chief said.

 

“The whole world should get behind Sudan’s peace initiative to end violence, protect the people and rebuild the health system,” he insisted.

 

“The best medicine is peace.”