[News] Calls to end Gaza ‘bloodbath’ after Israeli attack kills 274 Palestinians

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 Calls to end Gaza ‘bloodbath’ after Israeli attack kills 274 Palestinians

*One of Israel’s worst attacks kills at least 274 Palestinians at Nuseirat
refugee camp and leaves hospitals struggling to cope.*
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Several countries and international organisations have condemned the
Israeli killing of at least 274 Palestinians during an operation to free four
Israeli captives
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in central Gaza’s Nuseirat refugee camp.

Authorities in the Gaza Strip on Sunday said at least 698 others were
injured in “an unprecedented brutal attack”, some in critical condition, as
hospitals struggle to cope with the flow of wounded or dead bodies.

Reporting from inside Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in central Gaza’s Deir
el-Balah, Al Jazeera’s Hind Khoudary on Sunday said civil defence crews are
still finding dead or wounded Palestinians from under the rubble in the
aftermath of the Nuseirat attack, as more air strikes target
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areas across the enclave.

“The bombardment continues intensely and it is very hard for the emergency
responders to reach the killed and injured Palestinians. They are telling
us that there are still people on the roads and under the rubble that they
could not reach,” she said.
[image: Gaza]Palestinians including children injured after Israeli attack
in Bureij refugee camp [Ashraf Amra/Anadolu Agency]

Since October 7, Israel’s military offensive has killed at least 37,084
Palestinians and wounded 84,494 others, Gaza’s Ministry of Health said in a
statement.

Prime Minister Mohammad Mustafa said the Palestinian Authority is seeking
an emergency session of the United Nations Security Council over the
Nuseirat attack.

Palestinian armed group Hamas said Israel’s release of four captives “will
not change the Israeli army’s strategic failure in the Gaza Strip”,
especially after taking eight months to enact the operation.

It also said reports that the United States facilitated the Israeli
operation prove again that Washington is “complicit and completely involved
in the war crimes being perpetrated” in the besieged coastal enclave.

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European Union, Norway

Josep Borrell, the foreign policy chief of the European Union, had a
stronger reaction, writing in a post on X that “the bloodbath must end
immediately”.

“Reports from Gaza of another massacre of civilians are appalling. We
condemn this in the strongest terms,” he said.

Andreas Motzfeldt Kravik, deputy foreign minister of Norway, wrote on X
that he was “appalled by reports of another massacre of civilians in Gaza”
and said the country condemns attacks on civilians while calling for the
release of captives and an immediate ceasefire.
OIC, Arab Parliament

The Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), representing 57 member
states, most of whom are Muslim-majority, condemned what it called “the
horrific massacre carried out by the Israeli occupation army, which
resulted in the murder and injury of hundreds of Palestinians, most of them
women and children”.

It called for an investigation, accountability and punishment in accordance
with international law, stressing the importance of the role of the
International Criminal Court in this regard.

The Cairo-based Arab Parliament denounced the “massacre perpetrated by the
Israeli occupation” and held Israel and the US responsible.
Turkey

In a statement, the Turkish Ministry of Foreign Affairs said the country
“deplores” the Israeli attack, which it called “barbaric” and another in a
long list of “crimes” committed by Israel in Gaza.

“We call on the institutions responsible for the maintenance of
international peace and security, the United Nations Security Council in
particular, to exercise their responsibility to put an end to the
commission of these crimes by Israel,” the statement added.

Iran

Ministry of Foreign Affairs blamed the latest killing of hundreds of
Palestinians on “inaction” by world governments and the UN Security Council.

“These horrific and shocking crimes… are the result of the inaction of
governments and responsible international bodies, including the United
Nations Security Council, in the face of eight months of war crimes and
violations by the Zionist regime [Israel],” spokesman Nasser Kanaani said
in a statement.

“The butchered and bloodied bodies of Palestinian civilians and children
are the result of the continued injection of American and European arms to
the arsenals of the Zionist regime, and the continued support of the US and
a number of European countries for the regime.”
Jordan, Egypt

The Jordanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates said in a
statement on X that the Israeli attack is “a practice that reflects the
systematic targeting of Palestinian civilians, the Israeli persistence in
violating international law and international humanitarian law, and
continuing to commit war crimes”.

The Egyptian Ministry of Foreign Affairs called the Nuseirat attack “a
blatant violation of all provisions of international law and international
humanitarian law, as well as all values of humanity and human rights”.

“Egypt holds Israel legally and morally responsible for this flagrant
assault, demanding that Israel comply with its obligations as an occupying
power and cease the indiscriminate targeting of Palestinian civilians,
including those in areas where they have been displaced.”

United Nations

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said in a post on X that “scores of
Palestinian civilians” continued to be killed in Israeli attacks after the
organisation this week paid tribute to a record 188 UN staff killed in Gaza.

Martin Griffiths, the UN relief chief, called the Nuseirat refugee camp
“the epicentre of the seismic trauma that civilians in Gaza continue to
suffer” and said all remaining captives must be released and the war ended.

Saul Takahashi, former deputy head of the office of the UN High
Commissioner for Human Rights in Occupied Palestine and professor of human
rights and peace studies at Osaka Jogakuin University, told Al Jazeera 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.”
[image: Gaza]Palestinians injured in Israeli attack on Bureij refugee camp
at Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir al-Balah, Gaza [Ashraf Amra/Anadolu
Agency]

Francesca Albanese, the UN special rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian
territories, said the release of the captives should not have come at the
cost of more than 200 Palestinian lives, with foreign soldiers
“perfidiously hiding in an aid truck”.

“Israel could have freed all hostages, alive and intact, eight months ago
when the first ceasefire and hostage exchange was put on the table,” she
wrote on X, adding that the fact that Israel kept killing Palestinians
while refusing a deal lays bare Israel’s “genocidal intent turned into
action”.

“Countries that celebrate the release of four Israeli hostages without
saying a word about the hundreds of Palestinians killed and thousands held
in arbitrary detention by Israel, have lost moral credibility for
generations and don’t deserve to be on any UN human rights body,” wrote
Balakrishnan Rajagopal, another UN special rapporteur.
Other international organisations

Doctors Without Borders, known by its French initials MSF, which has teams
operating in Al-Aqsa Hospital where most of the casualties were taken on
Saturday, described a “nightmare” at the facility running out of medicine,
fuel and food.

“How many more men, women and children have to be killed before world
leaders decide to put an end to this massacre?” said Samuel Johann, MSF
coordinator in Gaza.

Kenneth Roth, former executive director of Human Rights Watch and visiting
professor at Princeton University, told Al Jazeera that a daytime operation
meant that “some of the bombs clearly fell either on or right adjacent to a
market in Nuseirat which was filled with people”.

“And in those circumstances, you predictably will get larger numbers of
civilian casualties than if it had been a night-time operation. That is
inconsistent with the duty to take all feasible precautions to spare
civilians harm.”
Israel and its allies praise operation

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the Nuseirat operation “will
be written in history” and the Israeli military praised its commandos for a
“daring” daylight operation.

Israel’s top diplomat rejected unspecified accusations of “war crimes” in
the operation. “We will continue to act with determination and strength, in
accordance with our right to self-defence, until all of the hostages are
freed and Hamas is defeated,” Foreign Minister Israel Katz said.

US President Joe Biden, who was hosted by French President Emmanuel Macron
in Paris during a state visit on Saturday, welcomed the release of the
captives without commenting on the mass killing of Palestinians
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.

“We won’t stop working until all of the hostages come home and a ceasefire
is reached. It’s essential,” he said.

The US military denied that its floating pier off Gaza or any equipment,
personnel or assets were used in the operation, saying “an area south of
the facility was used by the Israelis”.

Macron also lauded the rescue mission and called for a permanent political
solution to the war on Gaza, but did not mention the large number of
civilian deaths.

British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said the release of the captives was a
“huge relief”, ignoring the unusually high death toll.
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