“I ran out of the Zamzam camp with a child in my hands and my luggage on their head

700,000 residents of the Zamsim camp in Sudan were already among the most overwhelming people in the world when they were attacked by paramilitary fighters last week.

Two decades of conflict in the Darfur area, which intensified after the outbreak of the Civil War throughout Sudan two years ago, they meant that they had already escaped their homes to find safety and shelter.

They gradually began to restore their lives in Zamzam, the largest Sudan camp for internally displaced people.

But every sense of stability was prevented when the camp was devastated by an intense attack on Earth and air.

Zamzam was attacked by the Paravilian Responses for Rapid Support (RSF), who are trying to seize the nearby city of El-Fasher from their rivals, the Sudanese army.

RSF has denied messages of cruelty in Zamzam, but confirmed that it has taken over the camp.

As a result of the attack, Zamzam is “completely destroyed,” North Darfur Minister Ibrahim Hatter told the BBC Newsday program.

“No one is there,” he said.

Among the many thousands who escaped from Zamzam was 28-year-old Fatia Mohammed, who had been in the camp for three months.

She went barefoot for four days before reaching the city of Tavila.

“I carried one child on my back, another in my hands and luggage on my head,” she told the BBC.

She lost her husband during the chaos of the attack and still does not know where she is.

The family was attacked by thieves on the way to Tavila, said G -Ja Mohammed, and they endured exhaustion, hunger and thirst.

Doctors for medical charity without borders (MSF) say tens of thousands of people escaped from Zamzam to Tavila after the attack.

Saadia Adam left the camp with his children two and five years old after his improvised home was destroyed.

“They burned my house in Zamzam and they burned my sheep,” said G -ja Adam, who had been living in Zamzam for two months.

“All I owned was burned. I have nothing left.”

The images filmed by a freelance journalist working for the BBC show thousands of internally displaced people entering a tray, truck and donkeys.

These arrivals are facing overloaded facilities – MSF has said that in two days more than 20,000 people have sought treatment at the hospital working in Tavila.

“We see many people injured by bullets becomes routine,” said the chief nurse Type Haine Salmon.

“Yesterday it was a seven-month-old baby who just stared and could no longer cry-she had bullets under the chin and on the shoulder.”

A patient at Tavila Hospital described that he was going under attack in Zamzam.

“” We were six of us, we met RSF, “said Isa Abdullah.

“Three vehicles opened fire over us. They hit me on the head. The bullet approached my mouth. I'm fine now, but there are others in a worse condition.”

Hussein Hamis was shot in the leg during the attack.

“After I was injured, no one would wear me,” he said.

Mr. Hamis managed to reach a nearby hospital, despite his injury, but he “found no one, everyone had escaped.”

In the end, he managed to get an elevator next to Tavila. Like G -Ja Mohammed, he says he was robbed along the way.

RSF has not commented on these specific claims.

MSF has said he has received more than 170 people with firearms and explosive injuries in Tavila after the attack, 40% of whom are women and girls.

“People tell us that many injured and vulnerable people cannot make the trip to Tavila and have remained behind. Almost everyone we talk about said they lost at least one family member during the attack,” said Marion Ramstein, a MSF project coordinator in Tavila.

Zamzam was established in 2004 to shelter internally displaced people running away from ethnic violence in Darfur.

Its seizure would be strategically significant for RSF, which last month Lost control over the capital of Sudan, HardumS

RSF remains in control of much of the West Sudan, including the larger part of Darfur.

This week the group has announced plans to Launching a parallel government In the parts of Sudan in control, the strengthening of fears Sudan can eventually be divided into two.

Safe, at least for now, Da -Mohammed is thinking about the huge loss that this war caused those like her.

“We want the war to stop,” she said. “Peace is the most important thing.”