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<h1>Calls to end Gaza ‘bloodbath’ after Israeli attack kills 274 Palestinians</h1><p class="gmail-article__subhead"><em>One of Israel’s worst attacks kills at least 274 Palestinians at Nuseirat refugee camp and leaves hospitals struggling to cope.</em></p><div class="gmail-featured-media__image-wrap"><div class="gmail-video-shadow"><div class="gmail-pre_video-wrapper"></div></div></div><div class="gmail-featured-media__image-wrap"><div class="gmail-video-shadow"><div class="gmail-pre_video-wrapper"><div class="gmail-responsive-image"><img src="https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/CLIP_AJ-report-Al-Aqsa-Hospital_WIDE-THUMB-CLEAN_2-1717929457.jpg?resize=730%2C410&quality=80" alt="Gaza" width="408" height="229" style="margin-right: 0px;"></div></div></div><div class="gmail-video-duration__brand-bar"><span class="gmail-screen-reader-text">Video Duration 01 minutes 37 seconds </span><span aria-hidden="true" class="gmail-video-duration__duration">01:37</span></div></div><div class="gmail-article-info-block"><div class="gmail-article-b-l"><div class="gmail-article-dates"><div class="gmail-date-simple gmail-css-1yjq2zp"><span class="gmail-screen-reader-text">Published On 9 Jun 2024</span><span aria-hidden="true"> -<font size="1"> </font></span><font size="1"><a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/6/9/bloodbath-israels-central-gaza-raids-condemned-as-274-palestinians-die">https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/6/9/bloodbath-israels-central-gaza-raids-condemned-as-274-palestinians-die</a></font></div></div></div><div class="gmail-social-share-buttons"><div class="gmail-update-reading-list"></div></div></div><div class="gmail-update-reading-list"><span class="gmail-update-reading-list__tooltip" role="tooltip"></span></div><a class="gmail-social-share-button" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" aria-label="Share on Facebook" href="https://www.facebook.com/sharer/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Faje.io%2Fu7w5ix"></a><a class="gmail-social-share-button" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" aria-label="Share on Twitter" href="https://twitter.com/intent/tweet?text=Calls%20to%20end%20Gaza%20%E2%80%98bloodbath%E2%80%99%20after%20Israeli%20attack%20kills%20274%20Palestinians&source=sharethiscom&related=sharethis&via=AJEnglish&url=https%3A%2F%2Faje.io%2Fu7w5ix"></a><a class="gmail-social-share-button gmail-copylink" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" aria-label="Copy link" href="https://aje.io/u7w5ix"></a><p>Several
countries and international organisations have condemned the Israeli
killing of at least 274 Palestinians during an operation to free <a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/6/8/israeli-army-says-it-rescued-four-captives-held-in-gaza">four Israeli captives</a> in central Gaza’s Nuseirat refugee camp.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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 <a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2024/6/9/israels-war-on-gaza-live-nightmare-as-hospital-copes-with-nuseirat-dead">more air strikes target</a> areas across the enclave.</p>
<p>“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.</p>
<img class="gmail-size-arc-image-770 gmail-wp-image-2962476" src="https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/AA-20240609-34823807-34823796-ISRAELI_ATTACKS_ON_GAZA_CONTINUE-1717928174.jpg?w=770&resize=770%2C493&quality=80" alt="Gaza" width="408" height="261" style="margin-right: 25px;">Palestinians including children injured after Israeli attack in Bureij refugee camp [Ashraf Amra/Anadolu Agency]
<p>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.</p>
<p>Prime Minister Mohammad Mustafa said the Palestinian Authority is
seeking an emergency session of the United Nations Security Council over
the Nuseirat attack.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p><img class="gmail-size-arc-image-770 gmail-wp-image-2962641" src="https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/INTERACTIVE-Gaza-Israel-kills-more-than-270-in-Nuseirat-attack-updated-1717931830.png?w=770&resize=770%2C770&quality=80" alt="INTERACTIVE - Gaza Israel kills more than 270 in Nuseirat attack updated-1717931830" width="408" height="408" style="margin-right: 0px;"></p>
<h2 id="european-union-norway">European Union, Norway</h2>
<p>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”.</p><p>“Reports from Gaza of another massacre of civilians are appalling. We condemn this in the strongest terms,” he said.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<h2 id="gmail-oic-arab-parliament">OIC, Arab Parliament</h2>
<p>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”.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>The Cairo-based Arab Parliament denounced the “massacre perpetrated
by the Israeli occupation” and held Israel and the US responsible.</p>
<h2 id="gmail-turkey">Turkey</h2>
<p>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.</p>
<p>“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.</p>
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<h2 id="gmail-iran">Iran</h2>
<p>Ministry of Foreign Affairs blamed the latest killing of hundreds of
Palestinians on “inaction” by world governments and the UN Security
Council.</p>
<p>“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.</p>
<p>“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.”</p>
<h2 id="gmail-jordan-egypt">Jordan, Egypt</h2>
<p>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”.</p>
<p>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”.</p>
<p>“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.”</p>
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<h2 id="gmail-united-nations">United Nations</h2>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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”.</p>
<p>“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.</p>
<p>“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.”</p>
<img class="gmail-size-arc-image-770 gmail-wp-image-2962402" src="https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/AA-20240609-34823807-34823803-ISRAELI_ATTACKS_ON_GAZA_CONTINUE-1717925813.jpg?w=770&resize=770%2C513&quality=80" alt="Gaza" width="408" height="272" style="margin-right: 25px;">Palestinians
injured in Israeli attack on Bureij refugee camp at Al-Aqsa Martyrs
Hospital in Deir al-Balah, Gaza [Ashraf Amra/Anadolu Agency]
<p>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”.</p>
<p>“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”.</p>
<p>“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.</p>
<h2 id="gmail-other-international-organisations">Other international organisations</h2>
<p>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.</p>
<p>“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.</p>
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<p>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”.</p>
<p>“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.”</p>
<h2 id="gmail-israel-and-its-allies-praise-operation">Israel and its allies praise operation</h2>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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 <a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/6/8/many-casualties-as-israel-escalates-attacks-across-gaza">the mass killing of Palestinians</a>.</p>
<p>“We won’t stop working until all of the hostages come home and a ceasefire is reached. It’s essential,” he said.</p>
<p>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”.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said the release of the captives was a “huge relief”, ignoring the unusually high death toll.</p>
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