GAZA STRIP (Dispatches) — Palestinians in Gaza see the horrors unfolding in El-Fasher, Darfur, as a mirror of their own suffering under siege and bombardment. 
For over two years, Gaza has endured a genocidal blockade, leaving residents without food, medicine, or electricity. Now, as images of starvation and massacre in El-Fasher spread, Gazans say the world’s silence feels painfully familiar.
Umm Alaa Abu Shahla, displaced with her five children, said, “When I saw what’s happening in El-Fasher, I felt we were living the same story. We are without food or medicine, and the world does nothing.” 
Muhammad Abu Shalmalah, who lost a leg in an Israeli attack, added, “I thought we were alone in our suffering. But others in Sudan suffer the same while the world remains silent. This is solidarity from one wounded person to another.”
The United Arab Emirates has a central role in the crisis in Darfur. Sudan has accused the UAE of providing financial, military, and logistical support to the Rapid Support Forces, which carried out the siege of El-Fasher, enabling mass killings, starvation, and displacement. 
Arms shipments and weaponized drones reportedly supplied by the UAE have intensified the humanitarian catastrophe, making it complicit in one of the deadliest assaults on civilians in Sudan in decades.
At the same time, the UAE’s normalization with Israel under the Abraham Accords has emboldened Israel’s ongoing genocidal policies in Gaza. 
By forging political, economic, and military ties with Tel Aviv, Abu Dhabi has given Israel a freer hand to carry out airstrikes, enforce blockades, and suppress Palestinian resistance, while Palestinians in Gaza are left besieged, hungry, and voiceless.
For Gazans, the UAE’s actions are a double blow: direct complicity in El-Fasher’s massacre abroad, and indirect facilitation of genocide at home. Both betray a disregard for Palestinian and Sudanese lives, exposing the UAE’s alliance with power over its responsibility to humanity.
For the first time, UAE senior diplomat Anwar Gargash publicly admitted the country’s mistakes in Sudan. Speaking in Bahrain, he acknowledged that failing to sanction the instigators of the 2021 coup, and empowering the RSF over Sudan’s civilian government, was a “critical mistake.” 
Gargash said Persian Gulf states, including the UAE, actively weakened democratic civilian rule and backed RSF commander Hemedti, creating the conditions for the civil war and the humanitarian catastrophe in Darfur.