Israeli military free total 7 captives, negotiations freed more than 100: Rights expert
Kenneth Roth, the former executive director of Human Rights Watch and a visiting professor at Princeton University, spoke to Al Jazeera earlier about the Israeli attack on the Nuseirat refugee camp:
“This rescue operation means that a total of seven [captives] have been released alive because of Israeli military operations. Whereas over a hundred have been released through negotiations,” Roth said.
“At this stage, Netanyahu is a major obstacle to concluding negotiations with Hamas because he does not want to agree to a long-term permanent ceasefire that Hamas is insisting on. And that’s very clear.
“Netanyahu needs a forever war.
“Once the war stops, he then faces a political reckoning for the intelligence failure of October 7.
“Why were Israeli soldiers much more focused on the West Bank, protecting settlers than on adjacent to Gaza? These are questions that could easily topple his government and end him up in prison.”
Residential building after the Israeli attack on the Nuseirat refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip on Saturday
Overwhelmed Gaza hospitals treat wounded in tents
A man holds a Palestinian child at Al-Aqsa Hospital who was injured on Saturday when Israel launched simultaneous attacks on the Nuseirat refugee camp, Bureij refugee camp and Maghazi refugee camp
Injured Palestinians at al-Awda Hospital in central Gaza on Saturday as Israel launched attacks on Nuseirat and other refugee camps
Doctors Without Borders, MSF, said that hospitals were treating an overwhelming number of people with severe injuries
Israel could have freed all captives ‘alive and intact’ months ago: UN expert
The UN’s special rapporteur on the human rights situation in the occupied Palestinian territory said the release of four Israeli captives held in Gaza did not need to come at the expense of hundreds of Palestinian lives, including women and children.
In a post on social media. Francesca Albanese said she was “relieved” for the four Israeli captives, but added that Israel “could have free all hostages, alive and intact, 8 months ago when the first ceasefire and hostage exchange was put on the table”.
“Israel refused in order to continue to destroy Gaza and the Palestinians as a people,” Albanese said.
“This genocidal intent turned into action,” she said.
“Israel has used hostages to legitimise killing, injuring, maiming, starving and traumatising Palestinians in Gaza.”
Relieved that four hostages have been released. It should not have come at the expense of at least 200 Palestinians, including children, killed and over 400 injured by Israel and allegedly foreign soldiers, while perfidiously hiding in an aid truck.
This is "humanitarian…
— Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt (@FranceskAlbs) June 8, 2024
Francesca isn't holding back anymore.
