[5] The strike came after recent gains by the SAF, taking control of the El-Jeili oil refinery and breaking the siege of the Signal Corps headquarters in Khartoum.

[9] Although it was not immediately clear who had committed the attack, the Sudanese Foreign Ministry along with many local officials said that the drones were launched by the RSF.

[2][8][10] The RSF denied the claims, stating that the SAF had committed the attack and was trying to spread propaganda, but did not give any evidence to prove this.

[4] Sudan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs made a statement calling the strike a heinous crime and a "new embodiment of a genocide strategy" being pursued by the RSF.

They also said that the strike was a response to recent defeats, and that it was enabled due to international inaction and the United Nation's security council failing to implement UNSC resolution 2736.