US rights group calls ‘Israeli operation’ in Nuseirat ‘grotesque, botched’
Democracy for the Arab World Now (Dawn) says Israeli officials should be held responsible for “the massacring not only 274 Palestinians, mostly women and children, but reportedly also killing three hostages, including a US citizen”.
“By providing intelligence and logistics support for this operation, the Biden administration has now made the US a party to this conflict and placed US forces at risk for attack as legitimate military targets,” said Sarah Leah Whitson, Dawn’s executive director.
“While it’s a relief that a few hostages were released, this entire stunt was unnecessary given the ongoing ceasefire negotiations that include the release of all civilian hostages. Israel didn’t need to carry out this operation; a diplomatic solution was already on the table, which would have secured the safe release of all hostages without further bloodshed.”
Cuba slams Nuseirat massacre: ‘More evidence of genocide’
Bruno Rodriguez, foreign minister of Cuba, says: “We condemn in the strongest terms the massacre carried out by the Israeli army in the Nuseirat refugee camp, Gaza.”
He called it more “evidence of the genocide that Israel commits with impunity against the people of Palestine.”
Qatari minister denounces Israeli ‘exceptionalism’
Following Israel’s killing of 274 Palestinians in Nuseirat refugee camp, Qatar’s Minister of State for International Cooperation Lolwah Al Khater slammed Israeli “exceptionalism”, emphasising no one should be above international law.
“A basic and logical question: Does the right to self defence go both ways or only the Israeli way?” she said in a graphic post on X.
