KHARTOUM December 06. 2023 (Saba) - The Rapid Support Forces destroyed on Wednesday the Al-Jili Refinery, the largest oil refinery in Sudan, located north of the city of Bahri in Khartoum State.
The General Command of the Armed Forces in Sudan said in a statement: “The rebel militia today caused a fire in some facilities of the Khartoum refinery in Al-Jili, as a result of its destruction of the refinery’s control units,” It said.
The statement explained that the initiative to issue a statement by the militia “will not deceive the intelligence of our people in an attempt to pin its heinous crime on the Sudanese Armed Forces, whose national loyalty and deep-rooted belief prevent them from engaging in such barbaric behavior and destroying our national capabilities.”
The Sudanese Armed Forces held “the terrorist Rapid Support Forces and its mercenaries, who were brought in from outside the country, responsible for the full consequences of this major crime, and all the resulting damage to the facility and the residents of the area around it, especially since it had been keen to occupy the refinery since the first day of its ill-fated rebellion.” Calling on the international and regional community to quickly classify it as a terrorist organization.
For its part, the Rapid Support Forces claimed that Sudanese army aircraft bombed, at dawn on Wednesday, for the fourth time, the Al-Jili Petroleum Refinery, indicating that it was “completely destroyed.”
In turn, Sudanese media sources said: “The Sudanese Civil Defense controlled a fire in the warehouses of the Al-Jili Refinery,” adding that “the refinery was not destroyed.”
According to a previous statement by the Sudanese army, the Rapid Support Forces had occupied the Al-Jili refinery since the beginning of the war and continued to withdraw fuel from it.
Since the outbreak of war in Sudan, on April 15, many oil installations have been subjected to either control or bombing, which led to them being out of service, similar to what happened to the Balila field in West Kordofan state, last month.
The largest refinery in Sudan went out of service to join the Jabal Awlia and Shambat reservoir bridges after they were also partially destroyed.
Al-Jili refinery, located 70 kilometers from Khartoum, is one of the largest refineries in Sudan. Its construction was completed in the year 2000 and is connected to the oil production areas by a pipeline. It is also connected to the Bashaer oil export port on the Red Sea, the refinery provides most of the country’s oil and gas needs.
It is noteworthy that more than 120 vital facilities were subjected to complete or partial destruction during the war, while the two fighting parties exchanged accusations regarding responsibility for this. The destruction also affected most residential neighborhoods, markets, industrial and economic facilities, national museums, universities and schools.
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resource : Saba