Huge fire engulf the Yarmouk ammunition factory in Khartoum Sudan’s vice-president Ali Osman Taha has today visited the army’s Yarmouk factory after the Israeli attack and he said that his country has all the evidence to accuse the Israeli enemy of carrying out such an attack. The council of ministers and the ruling party, the national conference have called for an emergency session this evening to discuss the developments after the Israeli attack. Sudan’s information minister Ahmad Belal Osman has held Israel responsible for the attack, where four Israeli military jets have taken part in an attack which killed two Sudanese citizens and wounded a third.
In a press conference held by the Sudanese vice president, he said that Sudan would claim the right to retaliate at a place and time which it finds convenient. He said that the aim of the attack was to disable and destroy Sudan’s military capabilities and to prevent it from developing any weapons in order to weaken the Sudanese government and to influence the government’s political decisions.
Ali Osman Taha added by saying this was part of a series of attacks which have taken place in Easten Sudan before using the same tactics and he ruled out any involvement of any neighbouring countries in the incident.
Al Sawarmi Khalid Saad, the spokesperson for the armed forces said that his country’s military forces have all the capabilities to retaliate at any time. They have all the proof and documents that Israel is responsible for the attack, denying that the military force is involved in producing illegal weapons, that are internationally banned.
Israel has carried out attacks against other, what it describes as, armed traders. Tel Aviv accused tham of helping to arm the Palestinian movement Hamas.
In 2009, a convoy carrying weapons in northeastern Sudan was targeted from the air, killing dozens. It was widely believed that Israel carried out the attack on weapons shipment headed for Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip. Israel never confirmed or denied that. Sudanese parliamentarians denied that weapons were transported in the area.