Accusing Israel for a deadly missile strike on a military factory in Khartoum that killed two people, Sudanese government officials called on the UN Security Council to condemn the attack and threatened that it will retaliate.
"We think Israel did the bombing. We reserve the right to react at a place and time we choose," Sudan's Culture and Information Minister Ahmed Bilal Osman told in a news conference.
Israel has long accused Sudan of operating as the base for militants from the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas. Israel strongly believes that Sudan is the arms-smuggling route to Gaza's militant Hamas rulers through neighboring Egypt.
The Sudanese minister said four aircrafts bombed the Yarmouk military manufacturing facility in the south of the Sudanese capital at around midnight and said the remains of the missiles prove that Israel was behind the attack.
"The attack destroyed part of the compound infrastructure, killed two people inside and injured another who is in serious condition," he said.
Local residents claimed they saw aircraft or missiles overhead before a number of explosions.
Nearly 300 protesters assembled outside the government office where a cabinet meeting was held soon after the attack and protested carrying banners that denounced the United States and called for a whip out of Israel from the world map.
It's not the first time Sudan blamed Israel for the mysterious attacks in the country. It's that Israel was behind a 2009 attack on convoy in the Red Sea province in eastern Sudan.
Again in 2011, Sudan held Israel responsible for an air strike that killed two people in a car near the city of Port Sudan. Israel has neither confirmed nor denied its involvement.
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