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<h1 class="gmail-reader-title">'Bodies were in pieces, scattered in the streets': Nuseirat massacre</h1>
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<div class="gmail-reader-estimated-time" dir="ltr">June 9, 2024<br></div>
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Gaza's Health Ministry confirms the loss of 274 Palestinians in cold
blood, including many children after the Israeli massacre in the
Nuseirat refugee camp on Saturday.</p><img src="cid:ii_lx7nvz050" alt="b5fd59ac-5d78-4ddd-8493-98cfb68609f6.jpeg" width="408" height="240"><br><div><ul id="gmail-content-slick-0"><div aria-hidden="false"><li>
This child was killed by Israeli and USA special forces who
infiltrated into Nuseriat via international aid convoys and massacred
people at Nuseirat camp on Saturday. (ISMAIL JOOD/X)
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<p>Shock and grief have suffocated the streets of the Nuseirat refugee
camp after 274 Palestinians, of all ages, yet mainly children, <a href="https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/gaza-gov-t-media-office--210-martyred-in-nuseirat-refugee-ca#:~:text=In%20a%20statement%2C%20the%20office,of%20the%20Nuseirat%20Refugee%20camp." target="_blank" rel="noopener">were massacred in cold blood</a> on Saturday, as per Gaza's Health Ministry.</p>
<p>The harrowing images emerging from the recent massacre have
reverberated across the globe, igniting a wave of widespread protests
and demonstrations. From bustling city streets in Chicago to remote
villages in Pakistan, people everywhere are united in their condemnation
of the Israeli atrocities witnessed in Gaza.</p>
<p>On social media platforms and news outlets, the <a href="https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/dozens-of-martyrs-in-israeli-bombardment-of-nuseirat-refugee" target="_blank" rel="noopener">haunting scenes</a>
have captured the world's attention, prompting an outpouring of
solidarity and outrage with hashtag trends and amplifying voices of
dissent demanding justice for the innocent lives lost.</p>
<p>In cities around the world, crowds gathered, holding signs and
banners aloft, their chants echoing calls for an immediate ceasefire.</p>
<h2>A haunting aftermath</h2>
<p>In the Nuseirat, amid the ruins of the once vibrant neighborhoods,
the pain of loss and the echoes of agony are palpable, rendering words
inadequate to capture the depth of suffering endured by the
Palestinians. Here, the air hangs heavy with sorrow, thick with the
weight of bereaved parents and traumatized survivors.</p>
<p>As the dust heavingly settles, small tokens of a previous life emerge
alongside a child's toy, a family photo, and fragments of a life torn
apart by a brutal Israeli attack. Each serves as a torturous reminder of
all that has been stolen.</p>
<p>One eyewitness, Abdel Salam Darwish, recounted being in a market when
the IOF attack began, describing the devastation and carnage that
followed.</p>
<p>"Afterwards, people's bodies were in pieces, scattered in the streets, and blood stained the walls," he said, as quoted by <em>BBC</em>.</p>
<p>While the <a href="https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/retrieving-4-captives-does-not-change-iof-failure-in-gaza--h" target="_blank" rel="noopener">retrieval of four captives</a>
was celebrated in "Israel" and by world leaders, criticism mounted over
the high civilian death toll. European Union foreign affairs chief
Josep Borrell strongly condemned the operation, decrying reports of a
massacre. Images and videos from the Nuseirat refugee camp depicted the
aftermath of intense bombardment, with hospitals, mainly the Al-Aqsa
Martyrs Hospital, overwhelmed by the influx of casualties.</p>
<p>"Reports from Gaza of another massacre of civilians are appalling," he wrote on X.</p>
<p>Dr. Marwan Abu Nasser, the director of the Al-Awda Hospital,
described the increasing number of fatalities arriving and the lack of
space to accommodate them.</p>
<p>A man, who revealed that over 40 of his family members had been
killed since the Israeli aggression began in October, recounted, as
cited by <em>BBC, </em>his harrowing experience of being in a house struck by an Israeli bombing raid.</p>
<p>He detailed how the attack occurred just as children and women
entered the house, resulting in the tragic killing of everyone inside
except for him, his father, his wife, and one other survivor. This
house, initially accommodating around 30 individuals but later swelling
to 50, was decimated by the bombing.</p>
<p>"As soon as these children and women entered the house, the bombing
attack took place, claiming the lives of all those inside it," he said,
as quoted by <em>BBC</em>.</p>
<p>Doctors <a href="https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/intl--doctors-relay-the-horrific-scenes-from-al-aqsa-martyrs">operating at hospitals</a>
described the overwhelming influx of critically injured patients,
including children, who were soaked in blood with their organs outside
their bodies after the Israeli massacre in Nuseirat refugee camp on
Saturday.</p>
<p>Medical teams recounted the dire situation at the hospital amid the
nonstop arrival of martyrs and wounded individuals, with many sustaining
severe head injuries.</p>
<p>Even journalists with tents set up in the vicinity of the Al-Aqsa
Hospital in Deir al-Balah were forced to evacuate after receiving
threats that the area would be annihilated.</p>
<p>Unfortunately, this massacre is one of many since October 7, resulting in more than 37,000 fatalities to date. Meanwhile, the <a href="https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/skulls--burned-bodies--beheaded-children-among-horrors-in-ja" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Israeli carnage</a> seems to continue unabated.</p>
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