Sudan makes Israel responsible for attacking armory

Sudan's government raises serious allegations against Israel. The Israeli air force is said to have bombed in the early hours of Wednesday an arms factory in the south of the capital Khartoum, said the Sudanese Information Minister Ahmed Bilal Osman. "Four warplanes have attacked the Yarmuk factory. We believe that Israel is behind it, "said Osman told reporters. Fixed so far is only that in the night several heavy explosions in the factory complex Yarmuk occurred. Meters high, the flames shot into the sky. Several people in the surrounding districts al-Schigara suffered smoke inhalation. The fire took hours to get the fire under control. Deaths did not exist according to official figures. The governor of Khartoum had initially ruled out external causes of the explosions. This is contradicted, however, several eyewitnesses who reported aircraft that had circled around the factory before it burst into flames. In addition, a video shows the scene of a crater, destroyed several buildings and debris that could have come from a missile. A preliminary analysis revealed that Israel was behind the deed, said Osman. His country would the UN Security Council to submit evidence for the responsibility of Israel and it reserves retaliation.The human rights organization Human Rights Watch in 1998 reported, citing Sudanese opposition, the factory would Yarmuk chemical weapons stored for the Iraqi regime.Sudanese authorities have always denied this. "We do not respond to the allegations"

Not for the first time makes Khartoum Israel for air strikes against Sudan responsible.

• In 2009 a truck convoy was bombed in the northeast of the country from the air.Dozens of people were killed. U.S. media reported later, citing government circles in Washington that Israel then fired at an arms shipment to Hamas in the Gaza Strip.
• 2011 accused Sudan of Israel to have been responsible for an air strike in Port Sudan. In the attack on a passenger car, two people were killed, among them with Abdel-Latif al-Aschkar to a weapons buyer of Hamas from Gaza have been.

Israel has neither confirmed nor denied being behind the air strikes. It holds the government also in this case. "We do not respond to the allegations," said a spokeswoman for the armed forces. The Foreign Ministry spokesman Yigal Palmor said: "Israel has no information about the incident."