continued…….. However, local human rights organizations, including the Al-Jazeera Congress and the Central Sudan Congress, have collected concrete evidence of a deliberate poisoning campaign that included the introduction of toxic substances into food and water.
The latter posted a video showing the poisoning of a source of drinking water in a mosque where the RSF is imprisoning civilians.
More than two years later, the atrocities in al-Hillaliyya resurfaced following an investigation by the Sudanese Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) that provided witness testimony.
"I knew it was poisoning after I heard them. I saw them adding drops," said a woman who lost 13 members of her family.
“[The RSF] deliberately kept people trapped inside to make them hungry and thirsty so they would turn to the poisoned water well. Around 150 people a day started dying," said a man who lost 75 family members.
As the state-run Al Jazeera Research Institute conducts laboratory analysis on water and burial soil samples, the director of the research laboratory told SOHR that the deaths likely resulted from chemical poisoning using toxic pesticides, phosphorus and chlorine. Although the Sudanese army liberated Al Jazeera in early 2025, the country continues to deal with the trauma and devastating legacy of Israel's year-long RSF.