Nuseirat is ‘epicentre’ of Gaza’s trauma: UN relief chief
In a post on X, Martin Griffiths said that “images of death and devastation following Israel’s military operation” in Nuseirat show the war in Gaza is “only growing more horrific”.
“Seeing bloodied patients being treated on hospital floors, we are reminded that health care in Gaza is hanging by a thread,” Griffiths added.
Griffiths acknowledged four Israeli captives have been “reunited with their families” but said that all of the “scores” of people still being held captive “must be released”.
Nuseirat refugee camp is the epicentre of the seismic trauma that civilians in #Gaza continue to suffer.
As 4 hostages are reunited with their families, scores are still being held captive. All of them must be released.
Each day this war continues, it only grows more horrific. pic.twitter.com/lhKnvfjJH0
— UN Relief Chief (@UNReliefChief) June 9, 2024
‘It was like a horror movie’: Paramedic says Israel hit market, mosque in Nuseirat attack
A paramedic who witnessed the Israeli attack on the Nuseirat refugee camp said it was “like a horror movie, but this was a real massacre”, the Reuters news agency reports.
Ziad, a 45-year-old paramedic from Nuseirat who gave only his first name, told Reuters the attack hit near a marketplace and the al-Awda mosque.
“Israeli drones and warplanes fired all night randomly at people’s houses and at people who tried to flee the area,” said Zaid.
“To free four people, Israel killed dozens of innocent civilians,” he said.
Many bodies were still lying in the streets, including around the market district, after the attack, Ziad and other residents told Reuters.
At least three killed, several wounded in Israeli overnight attacks on Gaza
At least three people are now known to have been killed, including a small child, and several injured in an Israeli attack on a residential apartment in Gaza City’s Daraj neighbourhood, the Wafa news agency reports.
Artillery shelling was also reported in the Zaitoun and Sabra neighbourhoods in Gaza City in the north of the territory, according to Al Jazeera Arabic.
Israeli warplanes attacked the Shaboura area to the north of Rafah city overnight, and a person was wounded in an Israeli attack on the Bureij refugee camp in the central part of the Gaza Strip, Al Jazeera Arabic reports.
A house was also hit in the al-Dawa area to the north of the Nuseirat camp, though the number of casualties was not immediately known.
Israel’s celebration after captives rescue is short sighted, even tragic, says Marwan Bishara
Al Jazeera’s senior political analyst Marwan Bishara said the celebrations following the Nuseirat refugee camp attack were “the most tragic aspect of it all”.
It is one thing for families and relatives to celebrate the return of their loved ones that were held captives, Bishara said. But it is something entirely different for the Israeli and United States governments to “turn it into some kind of national holiday”.
“That is just so tragic and so short sighted,” Bishara said.
“After more than 40 captives have already died. After more than 40,000 Palestinians have already been killed. They want to celebrate the rescue of four captives that could have been easily rescued in any exchange deal?
“I mean, how short sighted could any politician be?”
