The office of Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammad Mustafa has confirmed that Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas is seeking an emergency meeting of the UN Security Council following Israel’s attack on the Nuseirat refugee camp that killed 210 people.

International intervention is needed to “address Israeli aggression” against Palestinian people and to enforce UN resolutions calling for an immediate ceasefire, the president’s office said in a post on social media.

Kuwait has joined a chorus of voices denouncing Israel’s attack on the Nuseirat camp, which on Saturday killed at least 210 people and injured more than 400.

In a statement, the ministry called the attack a “heinous crime” that constitutes a “flagrant violation of international law”. It also called on the international community and UN Security Council to “shoulder their responsibilities in stopping that barbaric aggression” against Palestinians.

Turkey has condemned the killing of 274 Palestinians in Israeli raid on Nuseirat refugee camp to rescue four captives.

“With this latest barbaric attack, Israel has added a new one to the list of war crimes it has committed in Gaza,” said the Foreign Ministry in Ankara.

Israeli military carried out heavy air strikes and artillery fire on the Nuseirat refugee camp killing 274 people and wounding nearly 700 people triggering a global condemnation and end to eight months of “bloodbath” in Gaza.

Several scholars believe Israel’s violent occupation of Palestinian lands has sharp parallels with France’s 132-year colonisation of Algeria, which ended in 1962 after an eight-year war for independence.

France displaced Algerians, confined them to small spaces that could not sustain human life and armed French settlers against them.

Israel has done the same since the Nakba in 1948 when Zionist militias ethnically cleansed at least 750,000 Palestinians to establish Israel on top of the ruins of their homes and history.

“[In both contexts], we can talk about the disregard and dehumanisation of Arab life … either as part of Islamophobia or anti-Arab sentiment,” said Muriam Hala Davis, a historian of Algeria at the University of California in Santa Cruz.

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_{Four-year-old Merve has serious burns on her body due to phosphorus used by Israel, according to doctors, shown here being treated at El Arish Hospital in El Arish, Egypt on November 15, 2023}

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Saul Takahashi, professor of human rights and peace studies at Osaka Jogakuin University, tells Al Jazeera that the Western response to Palestinians’ killings shows a “double standard”.

“There is a huge, huge double standard when it comes to human lives: that Israeli lives, Ukrainian lives, white skin lives are important, but when it comes to Palestinians, people with brown skins, Arabs in general, they are not just as important, we do not really care,” Takahashi said from Toyohashi in Japan.

“As your correspondent mentioned, this is hardly reported at all … the loss of Palestinians’ lives in the Israeli media. It’s pretty much the same in the US media and many other international media outlets.”

Israel ‘does not care about international law’: Expert

More from Al Jazeera’s interview with Saul Takahashi, who is also a former deputy head of the office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights in Occupied Palestine:

“The claim that the Israeli attack on Nuseirat camp was justified is completely ignorant of international law. “Israel has shown itself time and time again that it does not care about international and humanitarian laws.

“There are clear standards of proportionality. The loss of any kind of civilian lives and objects has to be proportionate. And it’s pretty clear that these [attacks on the Nuseirat camp] were not proportionate. This is something we have seen over and over again. Not just since last October but in pretty much every single offensive that Israel has engaged in Gaza.”

What next?

Takahashi, from Japan’s Osaka Jogakuin University, says if Netanyahu cares about the hostages, he should do the ceasefire deal and engage in negotiations immediately. “They have managed to rescue a handful of captives through military force, and by the way, they have killed some on the way.

“Many, many more captives have been released through diplomatic means … That’s what really has to happen. “It’s not possible to get all the captives this way [militarily]. Think we are going to go back to the ceasefire deal because Biden needs a victory as well.”

Three brothers were arrested in a dawn raid in the occupied West Bank city of Hebron, Wafa reports, adding that the three were sons of a man already detained in an Israeli prison.

Four Palestinians were also arrested in Arrabeh town, located southwest of Jenin city, during a raid where the Israeli military fired on a vehicle, though there were no reports of injuries, Wafa said.

Raids were also reported in the following locations:

• The villages of Rummana, Zubaba, Taanak and the towns of Barta’a and Yabad in the Jenin governorate.
• A Palestinian man was assaulted before being arrested at a military checkpoint in Jericho city.
• A 16-year-old sustained bullet wounds in Salem village, east of Nablus, during confrontations with Israeli forces who stormed the area on Saturday night.
• Stun grenades and toxic gas were deployed by Israeli forces during a raid on Husan village, west of Bethlehem.
• Israeli settlers raided the outskirts of the Palestinian town of Deir Dibwan, east of Ramallah. Settlers also uprooted 40 olive trees and destroyed an agricultural building owned by a Palestinian in the Masafer Yatta area, south of Hebron.
• Towns and villages east and west of Ramallah were raided and stun grenades and noxious gas were used against local Palestinian youths who confronted the Israeli military incursion.

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At least 6 injured in village near Nablus

Al Jazeera’s offices will remain shut in Israel for 45 more days, according to Israeli Communications Minister Shlomo Karhi, who says he is “convinced” the broadcasting ban will be extended in the future as well.

Announcing the development on X, Karhi thanked Prime Minister Netanyahu and the government for approving the extension.

“We will not allow the Al Jazeera terrorist channel to broadcast in Israel and endanger our fighters. I have now signed the extension of the orders banning Al Jazeera channel broadcasts in Israel,” Karhi said.

Al Jazeera has sent a comment to the minister through its lawyer, rejecting this decision and denying all accusations and justifications on which the minister based his decision.

The Doha-based news network in a statement last month condemned the shutdown, describing it as a “criminal act”.

“Al Jazeera Media Network strongly condemns and denounces this criminal act that violates human rights and the basic right to access of information. Al Jazeera affirms its right to continue to provide news and information to its global audiences,” the network said in a statement on May 5.

We knew that Israel’s information minister, Shlomo Karhi, was looking to get the cabinet to extend the ban on Al Jazeera. That cabinet approval has now been received, so the ban is back in place.

Al Jazeera has sent a response to Karhi via lawyers.

Internationally, the ban has been condemned. The Americans have spoken about press freedom. The European Union, the British and most Western nations that see themselves as Democratic have called into question the wisdom of the ban and asked Israel to lift it.

Israel considers itself a democracy. Democracies don’t ban freedom of speech.

Let’s see where we go after 45 days. This is going to take us to around August 5.

Yossi Mekelberg, associate fellow at Chatham House, says he doesn’t see how Al Jazeera is a “threat” to Israel’s national interests.

“Some of the things that are seen on Al Jazeera are unpleasant for Israel, maybe some of the commentators are saying things Israel is not pleased, and it’s entitled not to be pleased [with], but it needs to present counterarguments,” Mekelberg told Al Jazeera.

“I don’t think it’s good for Israel to be seen, especially considering what’s happening, as trying to curb freedom of speech.”

Mekelberg added that Israel is “entitled” to present its narrative on the war but due to some of the things that are shown on Al Jazeera “many Israelis don’t watch [that] on other channels”.

An Israeli attack on a family home in central Gaza’s Bureij camp has killed at least three people, reports the Wafa news agency. Several others were wounded in the attack, it said.

Earlier, we reported a separate attack on a home in the nearby ad-Dawa area that also caused casualties.

Israeli shelling in Rafah’s Tal as-Sultan neighbourhood has killed two Palestinians, report our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic.

As we reported earlier, Israeli warplanes also attacked Rafah’s Shaboura area overnight.

Four Palestinians killed just arrived at Al-Aqsa Hospital after civil defence teams pulled their bodies from the Maghazi refugee camp. There were also a couple of air strikes in the Darraj neighbourhood in Gaza City, as well as artillery shelling and air strikes in the eastern part of Deir el-Balah.

The continuous bombardment of Palestinians’ homes in Deir el-Balah, Bureij, and Rafah continues.

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Israel’s war on Gaza represents a “turning point in the history of the Middle East and the world”, according to Qatar’s Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al Thani.

Qatar’s top diplomat made the comments during a meeting of the Gulf Cooperation Council countries. “We are still waiting for the international community to stop the war,” Sheikh Mohammed said, adding that the GCC must push for a permanent ceasefire.

“The State of Qatar has worked since last October alongside its regional and international partners to achieve a permanent ceasefire and resolve the crisis to prevent the opening of other fire fronts in the region,” he said.

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The armed wing of Hamas has said three Israeli captives, including a US citizen, were killed as Israeli forces attacked the Nuseirat refugee camp.

The Qassam Brigades made the claim in a statement on its Telegram channel.

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Speaking on ABC’s “This Week” programme, US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan did not say whether the United States provided intelligence support to Israel or comment on how the operation might affect Hamas embracing a ceasefire agreement.

“The fact is that the whole world is looking to Hamas to say ‘yes’,” he said. “For all those people, for all these months who have been calling for a ceasefire, now is the moment.”

Sullivan also said the US doesn’t know how many Palestinians died in the incursion. Gaza’s health ministry said 274 Palestinians were killed.

Asked if Washington would back similar future Israeli raids even if such numbers of Palestinian civilians died, Sullivan replied: “The United States will support Israel in taking steps to try to rescue hostages.”

He also said Washington would keep urging Israel to minimise civilian casualties.

It's ok, they're urging Israel to kill less than 274 people next time.

Staggering number of children killed in Israel’s Nuseirat attack

Palestinians attempt to rescue people from rubble as Israel keeps targeting Nuseirat

_{Palestinians look at the aftermath of an Israeli air strike on the house of the el-Safi family in the Nuseirat refugee camp area in Gaza on Sunday}

_{Palestinians conduct a search-and-rescue operation after Israeli warplanes targeted the house. Injuries and casualties were reported after the attack}

_{A view of the destruction as Palestinians look for survivors among the rubble}

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.”

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.”

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.