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SvennoJ on 08 June 2024
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Investigation needed for claims Israel used humanitarian work cover during Nuseirat attack

Kenneth Roth, the former executive director of Human Rights Watch and a visiting professor at Princeton University, said claims that Israeli forces may have used the disguise of humanitarian aid workers during the Nuseirat refugee camp attack need to be investigated.

“We don’t really know what vehicles were used. The initial allegation was that humanitarian vehicles were used and that, clearly, would be illegal. That would endanger humanitarian workers. Now Israel denied that,” Roth told Al Jazeera.

“So I think we don’t know,” Roth said.

“But what we do know is that an investigation is needed to ensure that this was not an effort to pose as humanitarian workers or medical workers or some kind of protected worker. Because the use of such vehicles would then endanger these people,” he said.




Remember the raid and assassinations in a hospital in the West Bank



No one was held accountable for that, so it would not surprise me in the slightest Israel used humanitarian aid as cover for this massacre.
IDF are a bunch of terrorists.

Israeli attack on Nuseirat did not take precautions to ‘spare civilians’: Rights expert

More from Kenneth Roth, the former executive director of HRS and a visiting professor at Princeton University, who spoke with Al Jazeera earlier:

“I think we have to first recognise that while the numbers currently are at least 210 killed and over 400 wounded, we don’t have a breakdown yet of how many of those were fighters versus civilians,” Roth told Al Jazeera.

“There clearly was a firefight. So I think we can’t draw definitive conclusions until we know a bit more,” Roth said.

“But there are certain conclusions that we can reach. For example, the Israeli military said that it deliberately launched this rescue operation during the day, hoping to surprise Hamas. Hamas would have expected it to come at night,” Roth said.

“The one problem with operating during the day is that civilians are all about. And some of the bombs clearly fell either on or right adjacent to a market in al-Nuseirat which was filled with people,” he said.

“And in those circumstance, you predictably will get larger numbers of civilian casualties than if it had been a night-time operation. That is inconsistent with the duty to take all feasible precautions to spare civilians harm.”

Nasser Hospital treating open fractures, unconscious children: MSF

Here’s more from Doctors Without Borders (MSF), which says its medical staff are helping to treat “an overwhelming number of severely injured patients” at Al-Aqsa and Nasser hospitals in central Gaza.

“In one hour, we’ve received about 50 badly injured patients,” said Chris Hook, the MSF medical Referent at Nasser Hospital.

“There are people with multiple major open fractures. We’ve got several unconscious children. The intensive care unit is full, and more patients are arriving,” Hook said.


A car carrying injured people arrives at the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir el-Balah, in the central Gaza Strip on Saturday

Video footage captures moment of Israel’s ‘massacre’ in Nuseirat refugee camp

The video footage obtained and verified by our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic shows the terrifying moments when Israel missiles slammed into the Nuseirat refugee camp in an attack on Saturday that killed 210, wounded more than 400 and has been described as a “massacre”.

People scream as they run for cover as missiles rain down as part of an Israel operation that released four captives held in Gaza by Hamas fighters.