{"id":228553,"date":"2026-03-26T02:10:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T00:10:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/sudan-deadly-airstrike-destroys-al-daein-hospital\/"},"modified":"2026-03-26T02:10:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T00:10:10","slug":"sudan-deadly-airstrike-destroys-al-daein-hospital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/sudan-deadly-airstrike-destroys-al-daein-hospital\/","title":{"rendered":"Sudan: Deadly Airstrike Destroys Al-Daein Hospital"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"53\">A devastating drone strike targeted Al-Daein Hospital in Sudan&#8217;s East Darfur State on 20 March, the first evening of Eid al-Fitr, rendering the facility completely inoperable and leaving thousands without medical care. The attack struck the hospital&#8217;s emergency, paediatric, and maternity departments, resulting in mass casualties in the Rapid Support Forces (RSF)-controlled region.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"50\">According to the World Health Organization (WHO), the bombing killed 64 people&#8211;including 13 children and three&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202603250043.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 North Africa <a title=\"Sudan\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/north-africa\/sudan\/\">Sudan<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A devastating drone strike targeted Al-Daein Hospital in Sudan&#8217;s East Darfur State on 20 March, the first evening of Eid al-Fitr, rendering the facility completely inoperable and leaving thousands without medical care. The attack struck the hospital&#8217;s emergency, paediatric, and maternity departments, resulting in mass casualties in the Rapid Support Forces (RSF)-controlled region. According to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":228554,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[784],"tags":[258,256,25375,54010,9555,11462,6362,257,254,4708,1613],"class_list":["post-228553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sudan","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-airstrike","tag-aldaein","tag-deadly","tag-destroys","tag-hospital","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-sudan","tag-sudan-news"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=228553"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228553\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/228554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}