NewzSudan chemical weapons allegations highlight Israel’s involvement in war Over the weekend, the New York Times and Washington Post both reported on a “dossier of evidence” that detailed the alleged use of chemical weapons by the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF). The dossier, “shared by a Middle Eastern intelligence agency”, included images, documents and intercepted messages between Sudanese military officers that described how the army “developed and produced chemical weapons over six months in 2024”. Multiple Sudanese and US sources have told Middle East Eye that the “Middle Eastern intelligence agency” is Israeli, and that the dossier it shared with the media was very similar to one Israel handed to the US government before it sanctioned Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, leader of the SAF, in January 2025.
The dossier’s evidence seems to show that a secretive unit of the SAF, which has been at war with the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) since April 2023, produced chlorine bombs to use against its enemy. According to the NYT, much of the dossier - nearly 150 documents, bomb blueprints, images, videos, and voice notes, as well as several thousand text messages - appears to come from the phones of senior Sudanese officers. “The thing that is shocking is how much Mossad has been tracking this,” one Sudanese security analyst, who could not be named, told MEE.
“I knew Mossad had interests in Sudan… but the level and depth and length of surveillance suggests that Israel is more involved in Sudan than we think.” Middle East Eye has contacted the Israeli government and foreign office regarding the source of the dossier. Sudan’s army-backed government vehemently denies the chemical weapons allegations. Sudan's 'chlorine bomb project' The war in Sudan was prompted by a split b…
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