Meanwhile the massacres in Gaza continue
Dozens killed in Israeli air strike on Gaza’s Nuseirat refugee camp
A post office sheltering displaced Palestinian families has been hit in Nuseirat, as well as nearby houses, according to a medic.
More than 30 Palestinians have been killed and 50 others injured in an Israeli air attack on the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza. Medics told the Reuters news agency that a post office sheltering displaced Palestinian families was hit, as well as nearby houses.
Photographs from the scene show young children coated with dust and blood in the rubble of a collapsed building.
Nuseirat is one of the Gaza Strip’s eight historical refugee camps established in 1948 after the forced expulsion of Palestinians from nearby areas, often called the Nakba or “catastrophe”.
Palestinians decry ‘barbaric’ Israel strike on Gaza’s Nuseirat refugee camp
Palestinian authorities have said that at least 36 people were killed in an Israeli strike on the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza, as Israel continues to conduct devastating attacks across the strip.
The Government Media Office in Gaza called the Thursday attack a “barbaric and heinous massacre”, noting that most of those killed hailed from the al-Sheikh Ali family. “The [Israeli] occupation army knew that this is a residential block with many apartment buildings housing dozens of civilians, children, women and displaced people,” the office said.
On Thursday, the watchdog group Airwars, which assesses civilian harm from air strikes, released a report stating that Israel’s campaign in Gaza was “by far the most intense, destructive, and fatal conflict for civilians” that it had ever recorded.
The report found that, during the first month of the war, the number of civilians killed by Israeli strikes in Gaza was nearly four times greater than the death toll of “any conflict Airwars has documented since it was established in 2014”, over a comparable time period.
Experts and rights groups also say that the Gaza death toll is likely a vast undercount, with thousands more buried beneath mountains of rubble and the strip’s health services struggling to maintain operations.
At least 84 others are missing after the air strikes late on Thursday, with many presumed trapped under the rubble of the building, the office said.
“Civil defence teams rushed to the scene immediately but the scale of destruction was overwhelming," Gaza civil defence spokesman Mahmoud Bassal told The National. “The majority of the bodies recovered were women and children who had no reason to be targeted in such a horrific manner.”
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