Israel kills 210 Palestinians in Gaza refugee camp to retrieve four captives

Israeli military forces have carried out yet another massacre at a refugee camp in central Gaza, killing at least 210 Palestinians before they retrieve four Israeli captives.

Israeli forces carried out dozens of airstrikes in the besieged territory on Saturday, particularly in and around the Deir el-Balah and Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza.

The regime’s forces directly targeted civilians, including children, during “a barbaric and brutal aggression” against Nuseirat camp, Gaza government media office said.

They killed at least 210 people and left over 400 others injured, it added.

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas instructed Palestine’s ambassador to the United Nations to request an emergency session of the Security Council following the "bloody massacre" at Nuseirat.

Those injured in the air raids were taken to Al Awda Hospital in the camp and the Al Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir el-Balah.

A spokesman at Al-Aqsa hospital said the number of injured is so high that it is difficult to confirm the exact number.

"Dozens of injured people are lying on the ground and medical teams are trying to save them with the simple medical capabilities they have," the health ministry wrote on Facebook.

The ministry released images, showing patients, including children, who were lying in the corridors of the hospital as they were covered in blood.

No Israeli official mentioned the scores of Palestinians who were massacred in the camp. Instead, the military issued a statement, saying that they “rescued four captives” from the central Gaza Strip.

They were in “good medical condition” and were taken to hospital for medical checks following a “complex daytime operation” in Gaza’s Nuseirat, it said.

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The captives were held during Hamas unprecedented operation against the occupied territories on October 7.

The total number of Israeli captives still held by Hamas is now 116, of which at least 41 are dead.

Senior Hamas official Sami Abu Zuhri told Reuters news agency that “regaining four captives after nine months of fighting is a sign of failure not an achievement.”

Al-Aqsa hospital in ‘catastrophic situation’

The Gaza media office said  the regime’s forces launched airstrikes on several other places in central Gaza on Saturday, while warning about the "catastrophic situation" of al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital.

It said that al-Aqsa, the only hospital in Deir el-Balah, is working on only one electric generator; if the sole generator stops, “a real disaster” will ensue.

“This hospital provides health services to a million people and displaced persons, and it cannot accommodate this large number of martyrs and injuries.”

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The government’s media office called on the international community “to intervene immediately and urgently save the hospital and save the health situation” in central Gaza.

It said Tel Aviv and the United States are “fully responsible for this catastrophic crime in which the blood of dozens of innocent civilians was shed.”

President Joe Biden of the US, who is an staunch ally of Tel Aviv, has recently acknowledged that Benjamin Netanyahu is prolonging the savage military offensive in the Gaza due to his own political considerations.

He also rejected that there was evidence of Israel’s war crimes during the eight-month war against Palestinians in Gaza.

Israel’s war on Gaza has so far killed more than 36,801 people, according the Gaza health ministry.

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