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LurkerJ on 08 June 2024
SvennoJ said:

US pundit Briahna Joy Gray fired after interview with sister of Israeli captive

A talk show host in the United States has been fired after a backlash over her interview with the sister of an Israeli captive.

Briahna Joy Gray said on Thursday that The Hill had terminated her employment as a co-host of the online talk show, Rising. Gray said in a post on that X that her firing reflected a “clear pattern of suppressing speech – particularly when it’s critical of the state of Israel”.

During an interview with Yarden Gonen, the sister of Hamas captive Romi Gonen, on Tuesday, Gray sighed and rolled her eyes after Gonen said the host should believe women who say they were victimised by Hamas.

“I really hope that you, specifically, will believe women when they say that they got hurt,” Gonen said.

Gray has previously questioned claims that Hamas carried out rapes during the group’s October 7 attacks on Israel.

Gray, who served as the press secretary for Bernie Sanders during his 2020 presidential campaign, last month attracted criticism when she said during a panel discussion that Hamas’s calls for the elimination of Israel did not mean it was calling for the killing of all Jews in the country.

Oh well, that's it for The Hill: Rising then. She was indeed the critical one on the channel.

Briahna getting fired is such a shame really, she gets fired for an eye-roll after the guest has tried repeatedly to push disproven lies and IDF narratives throughout the interview. Meanwhile, BS pro-Israel narrative and falsified stories go unchecked. 

USA is AIPAC's bitch. 

An inappropriate facial expression by a pro-Palestine voice = fired. Constant lies by Pro-Israelis voices = cool.



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SvennoJ on 08 June 2024
LurkerJ said:
SvennoJ said:

US pundit Briahna Joy Gray fired after interview with sister of Israeli captive

A talk show host in the United States has been fired after a backlash over her interview with the sister of an Israeli captive.

Briahna Joy Gray said on Thursday that The Hill had terminated her employment as a co-host of the online talk show, Rising. Gray said in a post on that X that her firing reflected a “clear pattern of suppressing speech – particularly when it’s critical of the state of Israel”.

During an interview with Yarden Gonen, the sister of Hamas captive Romi Gonen, on Tuesday, Gray sighed and rolled her eyes after Gonen said the host should believe women who say they were victimised by Hamas.

“I really hope that you, specifically, will believe women when they say that they got hurt,” Gonen said.

Gray has previously questioned claims that Hamas carried out rapes during the group’s October 7 attacks on Israel.

Gray, who served as the press secretary for Bernie Sanders during his 2020 presidential campaign, last month attracted criticism when she said during a panel discussion that Hamas’s calls for the elimination of Israel did not mean it was calling for the killing of all Jews in the country.

Oh well, that's it for The Hill: Rising then. She was indeed the critical one on the channel.

Briahna getting fired is such a shame really, she gets fired for an eye-roll after the guest has tried repeatedly to push disproven lies and IDF narratives throughout the interview. Meanwhile, BS pro-Israel narrative and falsified stories go unchecked. 

USA is AIPAC's bitch. 

An inappropriate facial expression by a pro-Palestine voice = fired. Constant lies by Pro-Israelis voices = cool.

The theory on You Tube is that she was fired for this interview. The eye roll was just an excuse more easily sold to the pro-Israel crowd while not drawing attention to the video below. Much easier to be outraged over an eye roll than actually listening to what she said.

'Israelis Look Like Us': Bill Maher Wields IDENTITY POLITICS To Defend Israel: Briahna Joy Gray



LurkerJ on 08 June 2024
SvennoJ said:

The theory on You Tube is that she was fired for this interview. The eye roll was just an excuse more easily sold to the pro-Israel crowd while not drawing attention to the video below. Much easier to be outraged over an eye roll than actually listening to what she said.

'Israelis Look Like Us': Bill Maher Wields IDENTITY POLITICS To Defend Israel: Briahna Joy Gray

Yeah, I am sure the Hill and her detractors were looking for any excuse to get her fired. The eye roll, in context, is not as bad as it seems, I'd say justified even. 

Derbyshire presented Shaheen with the Jewish Labour Movement’s complaint about this tweet and its attached video, an old Jon Stewart sketch about being hectored online about Israel and Palestine. The tweet made reference to the “Israel lobby”, and how “non-stop harassment” discourages people from speaking out online due to being “immediately assailed by scores of hysterical people who explain to you why you’re completely wrong”. In her interview, Shaheen apologised for ‘liking’ the tweet, and agreed that it made reference to an antisemitic trope.

This is, however, one area where I profoundly disagree with Shaheen. A racial trope is a disparaging repetitive image or narrative, used to demonise a whole community. Had the tweet referenced the so-called ‘Jewish lobby’, or invoked sinister stories about ‘Jewish financiers’, it would be entirely correct to say that it was an antisemitic trope. But it didn’t – it talked about there being an Israel lobby.

Perhaps there isn’t any such thing. Perhaps Israel is the only country on the planet without dedicated lobbyists. Perhaps organisations like We Believe in Israel, the Britain Israel Communications and Research Centre, and both the Labour and Conservative Friends of Israel, simply don’t exist. Perhaps it’s simply untrue to say that people who are critical of Israel online, or supportive of Palestine, are bombarded by hostile replies from pro-Israel accounts.

Or perhaps, there’s a concerted effort by Israel’s advocates to warp and distort the definition of antisemitism to make it impossible to describe their activities. Was Shaheen wrong to apologise? I can understand why she did it. But nobody should have to apologise for liking a plain statement of fact.

https://novaramedia.com/2024/05/31/faiza-shaheen-has-nothing-to-apologise-for/



SvennoJ on 08 June 2024

Scanning through the news today, ugh. Israel rescued 4 hostages through an almighty blood bath. There's no way to defend taking people hostage, yet killing hundreds of innocent people to save a hostage is much worse. Especially since there is a clear route available (end the war) to get all hostages out.

Plus it will only get harder for the remaining hostages, while innocent lives get lost by the dozens daily. Israel has really gone off the rails. This is not celebration worthy, it's worse than Russian hostage 'rescues'.

Here is how it all happened in chronological order. Starting with the lead up to the rescue.


More than 250 killed in five days; Israeli missile targets flour mill as children starve: UN

Between Monday and Friday afternoon, 252 Palestinians were reported killed in Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip and 753 were injured, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said in its latest situation report on the Palestinian territory.

Intense Israeli air strikes have targeted the Nuseirat, Bureij and Maghazi refugee camps in the central Gaza Strip, OCHA said.

A World Food Programme warehouse in Deir el-Balah was damaged on Thursday when an Israeli missile hit an adjoining flour mill, forcing the UN’s food agency to temporarily suspend operations at the site.

On the same day, the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) reported that nine out of 10 children in Gaza are experiencing severe food poverty, and are surviving on two or fewer food groups each day.

Military operations in Gaza “have significantly destabilized humanitarian aid flows, forcing UN and partners to reorganize the entire operation”, OCHA reports.


Israeli bombing kills six in Bureij refugee camp

At least six people have been killed and a number of others injured in Israeli bombing that targeted a house in the Bureij refugee camp in central Gaza.


Heartbreaking scenes at Al-Aqsa Hospital after Israeli attacks

Here at Al-Aqsa Hospital, we received the bodies of six Palestinians who were killed as Israeli forces raided the eastern parts of Bureij refugee camp. More people are still stuck in areas where medical crews are not able to reach.

There were raids in Rafah where the Israeli forces reached west of Philadelphi Corridor near the beach where thousands of Palestinians were displaced. There is also shelling on Kuwaiti Hospital in Rafah.

There were attacks on a couple of houses in Zeitoun neighbourhood in Gaza City. The Israeli drones targeted children playing in that area. Last night, at least five Palestinians were killed and the number may increase because there have been a lot of attacks where medical crews could not reach.

Here at Al-Aqsa Hospital, there are heartbreaking scenes where Palestinians are bidding farewell to their loved ones and to the people who were killed earlier this morning.


Deadly Israeli air raids in Deir el-Balah

Israeli forces have launched air raids in the vicinity of Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir el-Balah, leaving a number of killed and wounded. Israeli air strikes and artillery shelling also targeted areas east of the Maghazi camp in central Gaza and homes west of the city of Rafah in southern Gaza.

The attacks have also affected communication networks in the area. We’ll bring you more on these attacks as soon as we can.


The bodies of Palestinians killed in the Israeli attack are brought to the morgue of Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir el-Balah, Saturday


‘Chaos inside the hospital’ after intense Israeli attacks

We can now bring you more on the intense Israeli attacks on central Gaza. Journalist Hind Khoudary shares this update from Deir el-Balah in central Gaza:

“There are explosions happening every minute. Ambulances are transferring the wounded to the hospital where we are trapped. It’s a chaos inside the hospital. There are children among the wounded.

“We can hear artillery shelling. No one knows what’s happening outside but we know that over a million people have evacuated Rafah for central Gaza and there are hundreds of thousands on the streets, terrified and horrified. They don’t know where to go.”


The bodies of Palestinians killed in the Israeli attack are brought to the morgue of Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir al-Balah, Saturday

Civil defence teams recovering bodies in Deir el-Balah

As we’ve been reporting, Israeli forces have launched air raids close to Al-Aqsa Hospital in Deir el-Balah. Mohammed el-Mougher, head of the supplies department at the Palestinian Civil Defence in Gaza, says Israeli forces have advanced towards eastern Deir el-Balah, forcing Palestinians to flee.

“The hospital received tens of martyrs and wounded people following the Israeli attacks. The ambulance and civil defence teams are still recovering martyrs and injured people from under the rubble,” el-Mougher told Al Jazeera.

“The capacities are very weak and there are only three fire engines in the central governorate. We are facing a lot of challenges and we can’t reach every place.”

He added that Israeli forces had evacuated the al-Qastal neighbourhood without warning and without “declaring it a red zone”.

Bodies, wounded patients still arriving at Deir el-Balah hospital: Health Ministry

Gaza’s Health Ministry has given an update on the situation in Deir el-Balah:

  • Large numbers of dead bodies and wounded patients are still arriving at Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital, the majority of whom are children and women.
  • Dozens of wounded people are lying on the ground and medical teams are trying to save them with the simple medical capabilities they have available.
  • The hospital faces a severe shortage of medicines, medical consumables and fuel, in addition to the stoppage of the main electric generator.


The bodies of Palestinians killed in the Israeli attack are brought to the morgue of Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir el-Balah, Saturday

Ambulances have not stopped transferring people to Al-Aqsa Hospital

I’m currently in Al-Aqsa Hospital, where injuries did not stop coming inside from different areas; we’re talking about areas like Deir el-Balah, Nuseirat, Maghazi and Bureij.

This area has been under intense bombardment since the early hours of the morning. We’re talking about artillery shelling, air strikes and also live ammunition from the warships.

We saw a couple of targets surrounding Al-Aqsa Hospital. There was a massive air strike on one of the houses very close to the hospital where we are right now, and we’re trapped; we can’t leave right now because it’s very dangerous.

The ambulances have not stopped transferring injuries, and not only ambulances. We’re talking about people, donkey carts, cars and anyone trying to help as much as possible.

I spoke to a lot of injured people, and some said they woke up from intense artillery shelling where the shells fell on the houses and they got injured, and it was a miracle they were evacuated.

We can still hear artillery shelling.



SvennoJ on 08 June 2024

Israeli army issues statement about Nuseirat operation

The Israeli army has said in a short statement that it is targeting “militant” infrastructure in the Nuseirat area, where Gaza’s Health Ministry reported dozens of casualties.

Images from central Gaza show children and women being rushed to the hospital.

It is unusual for Israel’s military to inform about its actions while its operations are still under way.


‘Everyone is terrified’

Al-Aqsa Hospital is overwhelmed. People are on the floor. Medics, volunteers, everyone is trying to help them. There’s no place for them.

They’re even trying to put injured people in other departments. The doctors are trying their best to rescue as many people as possible, but there are a lot of severe critical injuries right now, and everyone is terrified.

We’re talking about an area that’s been having hundreds of thousands of displaced Palestinians who evacuated from Rafah in the past couple of weeks, and they came here because the Israeli forces told them that the middle area is a designated “safe area”.

Again, there is no safe place in Gaza, and people are now homeless, terrified, horrified, fearing another wave of violence and air strikes, and they don’t know where to hide or where to go.


A wounded man lies on a gurney in the shade, out side the Aqsa Martyrs hospital in Deir el-Balah, Friday

Israeli forces launch ‘unprecedented brutal attack’ on Nuseirat

Gaza’s Government Media Office says the Israeli forces have launched “an unprecedented brutal attack on the Nuseirat refugee camp”, leaving dozens of people killed and wounded in the streets.

“[It] continues its aggression against all areas of the Central Governorate [Deir el-Balah], and Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital is in a catastrophic situation,” it said.

Israeli forces launched “a barbaric and brutal aggression” in the camp, directly targeting civilians, the office said, adding that ambulances and civil defence cannot reach the area due to the intensity of the bombing.

The office warned that Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital is the only hospital in Deir el-Balah currently working on only one electric generator; if the sole generator stops, “a real disaster” will ensue.

“This hospital provides health services to a million people and displaced persons, and it cannot accommodate this large number of martyrs and injuries,” it said.

It called on the international community, the UN and all international organisations “to intervene immediately and urgently save the hospital and save the health situation in the Central Governorate”.

“We hold the [Israeli] occupation and the American administration fully responsible for this catastrophic crime in which the blood of dozens of innocent civilians was shed,” it said.

“We call on the international community and all international organisations to stop this brutal aggression continued by the ‘Israeli’ occupation, and we demand that they stop the genocidal war immediately and urgently.”


A man carries a casualty in the aftermath of an Israeli strike, amid the Israel-Hamas conflict, at Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir el-Balah, Saturday


Israeli forces attacking by air, land and sea

    What we’re hearing from the Israeli army in a very short statement is that they’re going after “terrorist infrastructure” in Nuseirat refugee camp. But that is a statement that’s very difficult to square with the pictures we’re seeing of women and children being rushed to the hospital.

    A far bigger operation than we’ve seen perhaps in recent weeks. The Israeli military says it is going after terrorist infrastructure. A week ago they said that they’d hit terrorist infrastructure in Rafah but actually some 45 civilians were killed in what was called the Rafah massacre.

    We don’t know how many people are dead arriving at Al-Aqsa Hospital but that number does seem to be rising.


    Palestinians watch smoke rising from the residential area following the Israeli attacks on Deir el-Balah, Gaza, Saturday



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    SvennoJ on 08 June 2024

    Israeli military says 4 captives rescued from Nuseirat

    The Israeli military says it rescued four captives this morning during an operation in Nuseirat.

    A joint statement on Telegram by the army, police and the securities agency, said that Noa Argamani (25), Almog Meir Jan (21), Andrey Kozlov (27), and Shlomi Ziv (40), were found in “two separate locations in the heart of Nuseirat”.

    It added that these four were taken to Gaza during the Nova music festival on October 7. “They are in good medical condition and have been transferred to the ‘Sheba’ Tel-HaShomer Medical Center for further medical examinations,” the army said.


    ‘Blood everywhere’ at Al-Aqsa Hospital

    Dr Tanya Haj-Hassan, a pediatric intensive care doctor with Doctors Without Borders, known by its French initials MSF, says Al-Aqsa is too small a facility to be acting as Gaza’s main hospital.

    “It has completely taken over Gaza’s healthcare system because every other major hospital has been destroyed,” Haj-Hassan told Al Jazeera. The doctor said she has been receiving “frantic messages of pure chaos in the last hour” from colleagues at Al-Asqa describing “horrific” scenes from the hospital.

    “I received a message from one of my colleagues in the emergency department saying, Dr Tanya, it’s a full-blown, comprehensive genocide site,” she said. “He kept repeating the word massacre, massacre, massacre over and over again.”

    Haj-Hassan said her colleague then sent her video footage from the emergency department of the hospital. “There is blood everywhere. There are many people missing, extremities. It was so horrific.”


    An injured child looks on at Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital, in the aftermath of an Israeli strike, in Deir Al-Balah, in the central Gaza Strip, Saturday


    Israeli army gives details on captive rescue

    Here are some points made by Israeli military spokesman Daniel Hagari following news of the army rescuing four captives from Gaza:

    • Information was gathered for weeks ahead of the operation.
    • This was a high-risk mission conducted in daylight deep inside Gaza. A helicopter was part of this operation.
    • The four were rescued from two separate buildings.
    • 120 captives are still being held in Gaza.


    Andrey Kozlov, 27, left, and Almog Meir Jan, 21, two of four hostages who were just rescued, arrive by helicopter to the Sheba Medical Center in Ramat Gan, Israel, Saturday


    Fifty-five people killed in Israeli attack

    Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital spokesperson Khalil al-Degran says 55 people have been killed and “tens of wounded people” have arrived at the hospital following the Israeli attack on Nuseirat.


    Palestinians stand by their relatives killed in the Israeli bombardment of the Gaza Strip at al-Aqsa Hospital in Deir el-Balah on Saturday



    SvennoJ on 08 June 2024

    Return of captives will be spun as army success story

    The return of the captives is going to be spun as a real successful operation for the Israelis. We’re hearing that at least 47 Palestinians were killed but no mention of that from the Israeli army spokesperson, the PM or the foreign minister.

    We don’t have an actual figure of how many people were injured in this raid that took place by air, land and sea with the involvement of at least one helicopter.

    The cost of this operation? Well, the Israelis simply are not talking about it and will not talk about that because they want to spin this as a success story.

    PM Netanyahu was under tremendous pressure from the Hostages and Missing Families Forum to commit to a ceasefire to bring all of these people back. The forum is very clear: The ceasefire is the best and the most sensible option to get all of the 120 captives that are still in Gaza.


    Almog Meir Jan, 21, one of four captives who were just rescued, arrives by helicopter at the Sheba Medical Center in Ramat Gan, Israel, Saturday

    He looks in very good condition for all the horror stories of Hamas torturing the hostages.... Nothing like how Israel returns Palestinian hostages back to Gaza.

    Israeli forces ‘destroying’ health system across Gaza

    More from the Al-Aqsa Hospital spokesman Khalil al-Degran:

    • “A lot of martyrs and wounded” are still in the streets following the attack on the refugee camps.
    • Israeli forces are committing “brutal massacres regularly” and “destroying” the health system across the Gaza Strip.
    • This is the only hospital that can provide healthcare for the one million displaced people, and they “suffer” due to shortages of medical staff and supplies.
    • The hospital is full of patients and there is no space for more people.
    • Al-Aqsa Hospital is now running on one generator – if it stops working, a “catastrophe is waiting for every one of us”.
    • He says the hospital needs an “urgent intervention” to save the hospital and urges Palestinians in the area to go to the hospital “immediately” to donate blood.
    • “We condemn the Israeli attack against Al Nuseirat refugee camp and the central governate [Deir el-Balah], and we urge the international community [and] international organisations to do whatever it takes to stop this brutal by the Israeli forces.”


    Palestinians wounded in the Israeli bombardment of the Gaza Strip are treated at al-Aqsa Hospital in Deir al Balah on Saturday

    Scenes from Al-Aqsa Hospital







    Only 1 operational generator means oxygen supply won’t work: MSF doctor

    With just one generator operating at Al-Aqsa Hospital, Dr Tanya Haj-Hassan, a pediatric intensive care doctor with Doctors Without Borders (MSF), says this means the oxygen supply won’t work.

    “The ventilators won’t function,” she told Al Jazeera. “The emergency department doesn’t have windows which means it’s dark and they don’t have light. People use the flash on their phones.”

    She said this is all happening when the hospital has no internet connection. Her colleagues had been messaging her but her messages can no longer go through any more.

    “This is all in a state when it’s already completely chaotic,” she said.

    Al-Aqsa Hospital ‘looks like a slaughterhouse’

    Dr Tanya Haj-Hassan, a paediatric intensive care doctor with Doctors Without Borders, known by its French initials MSF, says the emergency department at Al-Aqsa Hospital “is a complete bloodbath … it looks like a slaughterhouse”.

    “The images and videos that I’ve received show patients lying everywhere in pools of blood … their limbs have been blown off,” she told Al Jazeera.

    “That is what a massacre looks like. It means parents running around caring for their children who have blood running from their head trying to find a medic to treat them. But it’s so chaotic and there’s so many patients that is vastly outnumbering the healthcare ability to care for them.”

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    SvennoJ on 08 June 2024

    Captives’ families urge Israeli gov’t to do more for those still held in Gaza

    The Hostages and Missing Families Forum have lauded what they called a “heroic operation” by Israeli forces to rescue four captives.

    However, the group reiterated that while it was a joyous moment, the government must remember its “commitment to bring back all 120 hostages still held by Hamas”.

    “We continue to call upon the international community to apply the necessary pressure on Hamas to accept the proposed deal and release the other 120 hostages held in captivity; every day there is a day too far,” the group said on X.


    Netanyahu says Israel won’t stop until all captives returned home

    Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says Israel does not give in to “terrorism”, adding that forces were operating “creatively and bravely” to rescue the captives in Gaza.

    “We are committed to do so in the future as well. We will not let up until we complete the mission and return home all the hostages – both those alive and dead,” Netanyahu said.


    Israeli officer killed in Nuseirat operation, says police

    Israeli police say Counter-Terrorism Unit commander Arnon Zamora was killed during the operation to rescue captives this morning.

    The police said Zamora had been critically wounded during the operation and taken to hospital, where he was later pronounced dead.


    US assisted with operation to release captives: Report

    According to Axios, citing a US administration official, the American hostages unit in Israel assisted in the release of the four Israeli captives in Gaza.

    We reported earlier that US President Joe Biden is expected to be making remarks in France in this coming hour about the captives.

    Israel will use images of rescued captive ‘to justify the killing’

    Palestinian Deputy Ambassador to the UN Majed Bamya has said that as people rejoice for the reunification of families in Israel, the world must not forget that more than 100 Palestinians have been killed.

    “Scores of civilians and many children were killed today in the Israeli operation and they may not be mentioned or will be a footnote in today’s news at best,” he said in a post on X.

    “As you smile seeing a father finally embracing his daughter in Tel Aviv, shed a tear for the father having to bury his daughter in Gaza,” he added.

    He said that there is a way for Palestinian and Israeli families to be “reunited in life not in death”.

    “That is the success we should all be striving for. After eight months of massacres, Israel will use today’s images to try and justify the killing of 36,000 Palestinians and the destruction of the lives of 2.3 million Palestinians. Don’t let it.”

    Palestinian death toll in Nuseirat refugee camp rises to 210

    According to the Government Media Office in Gaza, “the Israeli massacre that took place in Nuseirat refugee camp has led to the killing of 210 Palestinians and the injury of more than 400”.

    In a statement on its official Telegram channel, the media office said the injured were taken to al-Awda Hospital in the camp and Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir el-Balah.


    Biden welcomes release of the four captives

    The US president is speaking in Paris where he is on a five-day visit to France. He said, “We won’t stop working until all the hostages come home and a ceasefire is reached. It is essential that it happens”, he said in a presser with his French counterpart Macron.



    SvennoJ on 08 June 2024

    ‘An operation that will be written in history,’ says Netanyahu

    Netanyahu says the operation to rescue four Israeli captives from the Nuseirat refugee camp, where at least 210 Palestinians were killed, was “successful”, and the country will “do our best to get back the whole of them”.

    “They said that this operation will be [under] very complicated and dangerous circumstances. I knew that, but without hesitation, I decided to do this operation because they were Israeli captives, and I trusted the heroes in Yamam and Shabak [special police commandos and internal security] who attacked and freed the captives,” Netanyahu said at a news conference in the hospital the captives are being treated at.

    “Now the captives are with us. The captives are the gold and the diamond we are keen to return back. It is an operation that will be written in history, yes we know that we have to pay the price but I also know the heroes will be always mentioned in the book and the history of Israel.”

    US ‘commends’ Israeli operation, reiterates need for ceasefire

    National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan says the US commends the work of Israeli forces for rescuing the four captives from the Nuseirat area, where Israeli attacks killed at least 210 Palestinians and wounded 400.

    “The United States is supporting all efforts to secure the release of hostages still held by Hamas, including American citizens. This includes through ongoing negotiations or other means,” Sullivan said, adding the ceasefire proposal would secure the release of all the remaining captives.

    “Together with security assurances for Israel and relief for the innocent civilians in Gaza. This deal has the full backing of the United States and has been endorsed by countries from around the world.”

    PA’s Abbas seeks emergency UNSC session following Nuseirat massacre

    The Palestinian president instructed Palestine’s envoy to the UN to call for an emergency session of the Security Council following what he called a “bloody massacre” by Israeli forces in Nuseirat refugee camp in Gaza, Palestine’s official news agency Wafa reports.

    According to a statement, “President Abbas is engaged in intensive diplomatic efforts with Arab and international stakeholders to convene an emergency session of the UN Security Council.”

    “The aim is to address the ongoing Israeli aggression against the Palestinian people and compel the Israeli occupation to comply with international legitimacy resolutions, including those calling for an immediate ceasefire,” the statement said.

    Aftermath of Israeli attacks on Nuseirat refugee camp





    SvennoJ on 08 June 2024

    CNN's recap

    Israel rescues four hostages in operation Palestinian officials say killed more than 200 people

    https://www.cnn.com/2024/06/08/middleeast/four-israeli-hostages-freed-gaza-intl/index.html

    The Israeli military rescued four hostages in a special operation in the Nuseirat refugee camp, central Gaza, that Gazan authorities said killed 210 people and injured more than 400 others.

    Noa Argamani, Almog Meir Jan, Andrey Kozlov, and Shlomi Ziv, were rescued by the Israeli military, intelligence and special forces from two separate locations in Nuseirat, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said Saturday.

    “They are in good medical condition and have been transferred to the ‘Sheba’ Tel-HaShomer Medical Center for further medical examinations,” the IDF added.

    An Israeli policeman from a special counter-terrorism unit was killed in Saturday’s rescue operation, according to Israeli police.

    News of the rescue came soon after Israel’s military said it was operating in Nuseirat and other areas of central Gaza, where heavy shelling and artillery fire was reported.

    At least 210 people have been killed as a result of the rescue operation, the Government Media Office in Gaza said Saturday. The killed and wounded are arriving at two hospitals in Gaza, Al-Awda Hospital in Nuseirat and Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir Al-Balah, the media office added.

    CNN is not able to independently verify the media office numbers.


    The aftermath of Israeli bombing in Nuseirat refugee camp, Gaza Strip

    Nidal Abdo, was shopping in Nuseirat on Saturday when he described a “crazy bombardment” hitting.

    “There are children torn apart and scattered in the streets, they wiped out Nuseirat, it is hell on earth,” he said.

    Another local, Abu Abdallah, said the strike hit while people were sleeping, adding: “Dogs were eating people’s remains. We pulled out six martyrs, all torn up children and women, we risked our lives to get them to the hospital.”

    Hamas described the operation as a “heinous crime” in a press release Saturday, saying the Israeli military “committed a horrific massacre against innocent civilians.”

    Hostage rescues are rare: this is only the third such successful operation. IDF Corporal Ori Megidish was rescued in October last year from the northern Gaza Strip. In another operation on February 12 this year, Fernando Marman and Louis Har were rescued from southern Rafah.


    Noa Argamani speaks on the phone with Israeli President Isaac Herzog following her release on Saturday.

    One of the group, 25-year-old Noa Argamani, became one of the symbols of the October 7 attacks, after video emerged of her seen shouting and pleading from the seat of a motorbike as a group of Hamas fighters drive away with her in tow.

    In the video, Argamani’s boyfriend, fellow Israeli citizen Avinatan Or, is also led away and kidnapped by Hamas fighters.

    Of the others freed:

    – Almog Meir Jan, 22, is from the small city of Or Yehuda, outside Tel Aviv. He was due to start a new job at a technology company on October 8.

    – Shlomi Ziv, 41, was working as a security guard at the Nova festival when he was kidnapped on October 7. Ziv had been living in the local moshav or agricultural settlement for 17 years with his wife Miren.

    – Andrey Kozlov, 27, is a Russian citizen who move to Israel a year ago. He was also working as a security guard at the Nova festival.

    Rescuing hostages taken during the Hamas attacks of October 7 remains a major goal of the Israeli military campaign in Gaza. Following Saturday’s announcement, the total number of hostages still held in the Gaza Strip from October 7 is now 116, of which at least 41 are dead.



    Hamas military spokesman says Israeli army killed captives in Nuseirat operation

    The masked spokesman for the Qassam Brigades, who goes by nom de guerre Abu Obeida, says that the attacks carried out today by the Israeli military in central Gaza represent a “complex war crime”.

    He also said that ” the first to be harmed by [the Israeli army] are its prisoners”, in a reference to the around 120 captives still held in the Gaza Strip.

    • The enemy was able, by committing horrific massacres, to free some of his captives, but at the same time, it killed some of them during the operation.
    • The operation will pose a great danger to the enemy prisoners and will have a devastating impact on their conditions and lives