NAIROBI: آ Doctors Without Borders (MSF) said one of its hospitals that serves more than 200,000 people in Jonglei state,آ South Sudan, was hit in anآ airstrike.

“The hospital’s main warehouse was destroyed during the attack, and we lost most of our critical supplies for providing medical care,” MSF said.

“The government of South Sudan armed forces are the only armed party with the capacity to perform aerial attacks in the country,”آ the organization clarified in a statement.

آ The United Nations says that clashes, convulsing South Sudan for months, are occurring at a scaleآ not seen since 2017, raising fears of a rekindling of civil war in the country.

Some of the fiercest fighting has taken place in Jonglei, located in the country’s east on the border with Ethiopia, where government forces are seeking to halt an attack by fighters loyal to Sudan People’s Liberation Army.

The organizationآ said one of its staff members had suffered minor injuries in the airstrike on the hospital in Lankien, adding it had evacuated the hospital and discharged patients hours earlier after receiving information about a possible attack.

Late last month South Sudan’sآ military orderedآ civilians and personnel from the United Nations mission and all charities to evacuate three counties in Jonglei state ahead of an operation there against opposition forces.

The UN mission has said that at least 180,000 people in Jonglei have been displaced by recent fighting.

South Sudan’s 2013-2018 civil war was fought along largely ethnic lines and claimed the lives of about 400,000 people.