In the next tent in the clinic run by medical charity Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), Yusra Ibrahim Mohamed describes making the decision to flee the city after her husband, a soldier with the Sudanese army, was killed.
“My husband was in the artillery,” she says. “He was returning home and was killed during the attacks.
“We stayed patient. Then the clashes and attacks continued. We managed to escape.
“We left three days ago,” she says, “moving in different directions from the artillery areas. The people guiding us didn’t know what was happening.
“If someone resisted, they were beaten or robbed. They would take everything you had. People could even be executed. I saw dead bodies in the streets.”
Alfadil Dukhan works in the MSF clinic.
He and his colleagues have been providing emergency care to those who arrive – among them, he says, are 500 in need of urgent medical treatment.
“Most of the new arrivals are elders and women or children,” the medic says.
“The wounded are suffering, and some of them they already have amputations.
“So they are really suffering a lot. And we are trying to just give them some support and some medical care.”
Those arriving this week in Tawila join hundreds of thousands there who fled previous rounds of violence in el-Fasher.
Before its seizure by the RSF on Sunday, the city had been besieged for 18 months.
Those trapped inside were bombarded by a barrage of deadly artillery and air strikes as the army and the paramilitaries battled for el-Fasher.
And they were plunged into a severe hunger crisis by an RSF blockade of supplies and aid.
Hundreds of thousands were displaced in April when the RSF seized control of the Zamzam camp close to the city, at the time one of the main sites housing people forced to flee fighting elsewhere.