Palestinians walk through smoke and dust following an operation by the Israeli Special Forces in the Nuseirat camp, in the central Gaza Strip on June 8, 2024. (Photo by Bashar Taleb / AFP)
Doha, Qatar: With more than 200 killed and over 400 wounded, Israel's raid on Nuseirat has been described as "complete bloodbath" by doctors working on site at Al-Aqsa Hospital in central Gaza. Doctors without borders say Al Aqsa and Nasser Hospitals are 'overwhelmed'.
Israeli attacks in Gaza have killed 283 people and injured 814 in the past 24 hours alone, according to Gaza’s health ministry.
The vast majority of those casualties — 274 killed and 698 injured — were caused by Israeli’s operation in Nuseirat, the ministry said.
The latest casualties in Gaza bring the total toll there since October 7 to 37,084 killed and 84,494 injured, according to the ministry.
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[9:07 Doha Time] Staggering number of children killed in Israel’s Nuseirat attack
Among the 274 dead from Israel’s army incursion are at least 64 children, 57 women, and 37 elderly people, Gaza’s health ministry says. Another 798 Palestinians were wounded in the Israeli raid.
The Palestinian death toll is the worst over a 24-hour period of the Gaza war for months.
“My child was crying, afraid of the sound of the plane firing at us,” said Hadeel Radwan, 32, recounting how they fled the intense attack as she carried her seven-month-old daughter.
“We all felt that we wouldn’t survive. This brutal occupation will not let us live.”
[8:15pm Doha Time] Gaza children suffering ‘unimaginably’: UNRWA
The UN agency for Palestinian refugees cites UNICEF report that nine out of 10 children in the Gaza Strip are experiencing severe food poverty, with Oxfam reporting that many spend entire days without food.
“No child should face such horrific conditions,” UNRWA said, reiterating its call for a ceasefire in the besieged coastal enclave.
Children in #Gaza continue to suffer unimaginably from this war.@UNICEF reports 9 out of 10 children in #GazaStrip are experiencing severe food poverty, with @Oxfam reporting that many spend entire days without food.
— UNRWA (@UNRWA) June 9, 2024
No child should face such horrific conditions: #CeasefireNow pic.twitter.com/cOAqoOMMjP
[8:13pm Doha Time] Scenes of horror at Gaza hospital
Medics describe scenes of chaos and carnage after the deadly Israeli army raid. Overwhelmed hospitals were already struggling to treat the wounded from days of heavy Israeli strikes in the area.
“We had the gamut of war wounds, trauma wounds, from amputations to eviscerations to trauma, to TBIs [traumatic brain injuries], fractures and, obviously, big burns,” said Karin Huster from Medicins Sans Frontiere, working in al-Aqsa Hospital in Deir el-Balah.
“Kids completely gray or white from the shock, burnt, screaming for their parents. Many of them are not screaming because they are in shock.”
[2:55pm Doha Time] Fifty Palestinian children suffer from malnutrition, starvation in northern Gaza Strip
Palestinian medical sources announced Sunday that 50 children are suffering from malnutrition and starvation in the north of the Gaza Strip.
Medical sources at Kamal Adwan Hospital in Jabalya camp reported that roughly 50 undernourished children have been confirmed in one week only, with the specter of famine haunting the Strip. The sources added that signs of malnutrition in children have been recorded with a limited medical service being resumed amid shortage of fuel compounded by the catastrophic situation in the Strip.
The United Nations World Food Program said that 9 out of 10 children in the Gaza Strip suffer from acute food poverty.
The catastrophic situation in the Strip, specifically in the north, is exacerbated by the closure of Rafah and Kerem Shalom border crossings after the remaining food items ran out amid shortage of aid.
[1:05pm Doha Time] Turkiye criticises Israel’s deadly operation to free captives as ‘barbaric’
Turkiye has called Israel’s operation to free its captives a “barbaric attack” with at least 226 Palestinian deaths.
“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.
During the Israeli military’s operation to free four captives, the Nuseirat refugee camp came under heavy air strikes and artillery fire, leading to mass casualties and injuries.
[12:30pm Doha Time] Strikes keep pounding central Gaza
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, reported Al Jazeera.
[11am Doha Time] Israel exploits hostages issue to legitimize massacres in Gaza: UN Special Rapporteur
UN Special Rapporteur on the Occupied Palestinian Territories Francesca Albanese said that the Israeli entity is exploiting the prisoners' issue to legitimize the killing, wounding, mutilation, starvation, and trauma of Palestinians in Gaza, and is intensifying acts of violence in the rest of the occupied territories.
Albanese added on the X platform that the Israeli entity could have released the prisoners eight months ago when the first ceasefire and prisoner exchange was proposed. However, the Israeli entity refused to continue destroying Gaza and the Palestinians as a people.
On Saturday, the occupation forces committed a massacre in the Nuseirat camp, resulting in the death of 210 citizens and the injury of more than 400 others, under the pretext of liberating four Israeli prisoners.
[10am Doha Time] Several Palestinians injured as Israeli occupation aggression continues for 247th Day
Several Palestinians sustained various injuries Sunday morning as the Israeli occupation forces continue their relentless aggression on the Gaza Strip, now entering its 247th day.
Numerous injuries were reported and transported to Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital following an Israeli airstrike on the Abu Daqqa family home east of Deir al-Balah, central Gaza, the Palestinian news agency (WAFA) quoted local sources as saying.
In the southern Gaza Strip, loud explosions and gunfire from Israeli forces were reported in various areas of Rafah city, WAFA said.
Meanwhile, neighborhoods such as Al-Zaytoun, Tel al-Hawa, and Al-Sabra in Gaza City experienced artillery shelling and gunfire from occupation tanks positioned south of the city.
[9am Doha Time] US resumes aid deliveries to Gaza from temporary pier: CENTCOM
The United States has resumed aid deliveries to Gaza from a temporary pier, the country's military said Saturday, after the structure suffered storm damage and underwent repairs in a nearby port.
"Today at approximately 10:30 am (Gaza time) US Central Command (USCENTCOM) began delivery of humanitarian assistance ashore in Gaza. Today, a total of approximately 492 metric tons (~1.1 million pounds) of much needed humanitarian assistance was delivered to the people of Gaza," CENTCOM said on social media platform X.
"No US military personnel went ashore in Gaza," the military command responsible for the Middle East added.
[8am Doha Time] Colombia to suspend coal sales to Israel over Gaza war
Colombian President Gustavo Petro announced Saturday that his country will suspend coal exports to Israel as a rebuke against its deadly war in Gaza.
Colombia is Israel's main coal supplier with exports of some $450 million in 2023, according to the Israeli embassy in Bogota, which remains operational despite Petro's government severing diplomatic ties in May.
Petro, Colombia's first leftist president and a fierce critic of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, said Saturday on X that coal exports to Israel would be suspended "until the genocide stops."
A government decree specified that the restrictions would remain "until the orders of provisional measures issued by the International Court of Justice (ICJ)... are fully complied with."
