Sudan's RSF and Israel held discreet meetings over last two years: Report
Sudan's RSF and Israel held discreet meetings over last two years: Report Submitted by MEE staff on Mon, 08/31/2026 - 17:39 According to an investigation, RSF delegations travelled to Tel Aviv in 2025 and 2026 Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu casts his ballot at his party Likud's main polling station during primary elections ahead of Israel’s general election in October in Jerusalem on…
The Rapid Support Forces (RSF) of Sudan and Israel have engaged in discreet meetings over the past two years, according to a new investigation by Africa Intelligence. In May 2025 and February 2026, RSF delegations traveled to Tel Aviv, where they met with officials from Israel's foreign ministry and intelligence agencies. The delegation included RSF deputy commander Abdul Rahim Hamdan Dagalo, his brother Algoney Hamdan Dagalo, and the RSF's legal adviser, Ezzadean Elsafi.
These contacts were part of a longstanding security and intelligence partnership between Israel and Sudan, which may have involved the transfer of surveillance technologies. The Abraham Accords, signed in January 2021, normalized relations between Sudan and Israel, making Sudan the third Arab-majority country to do so. The United Nations' Independent International Fact-Finding Mission for Sudan concluded in February that the RSF's siege of el-Fasher, the capital of North Darfur, was a genocide.
RSF members have been tried and sentenced to death in absentia for their roles in various atrocities, including the killing of West Darfur Governor Khamis Abdullah Abakar and the ethnic cleansing and possible genocide in el-Geneina.
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