On Wednesday, the government of Sudan claimed that four Israeli planes attacked and destroyed the Yarmouk industrial complex south of the country's capital of Khartoum, according to a report from the Associated Press . The attack was on a military factory, resulting in two deaths.
Israel has not confirmed that the country bombed the plant and there was no mention of the bombing on Israel's Foreign Ministry website .
Here's the latest information and diplomatic statements regarding the airstrike.
* The claim came from Sudanese Culture and Information Minister Ahmed Bilal Osman. AFP reported Osman to have said that Sudan would "reserve the right to react at a place and time we choose."
* Osman told a press conference that there was evidence of Israeli involvement among the remains of the explosion.
* Reuters reports that Israel's Channel Two News asked Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak about the accusation, to which he responded that "there is nothing I can say about this subject."
* U.S. State Department spokesperson Victoria Nuland was asked on Wednesday about the reported attack on the arms factory, but reported that they had only seen "initial reports on the incident" at that time.
* The factory was in a heavily populated low-income residential area, a fact that Sudanese activists have complained about, the AP reported. A witness indicated that an artillery shell crashed into a neighbor's home following three explosions.
* Hamas, which controls the Gaza Strip, is believed to receive smuggled weapons from Sudan through Egypt, according to Reuters.
* A Christian Science Monitor article noted that Israeli press are saying the the factory was owned by Iran's Revolutionary Guard. Senior Sudanese military officials don't deny that Iran owns military factories in the country, and Iran has reportedly sent Republican Guard members to train Sudanese army.
* A suspected senior Hamas member charged with coordinating arms shipments was killed in 2011 near Port Sudan. Sudan claimed that Israeli attack helicopters destroyed a car with two people in it at the time.
* In 2009, a convoy of vehicles in northeastern Sudan was bombed, resulting in dozens of deaths. The convoy was believed to be carrying a weapons shipment bound for Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip, and Israel is believed to have struck the convoy, the AP reported. Israel never confirmed or denied a role in the attack.
Shawn Humphrey is a former contributor to The Flint Journal and an amateur Africanist, focusing his personal studies on human rights and political issues on the continent.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/israel-accused-bombing-military-plant-sudan-223400260.html
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