Israel’s war on Gaza live: Death toll passes 37,000 after ‘barbaric attack’

Israel’s raid on the Nuseirat refugee camp has caused outrage, with the EU calling it “a massacre”. The death toll has risen to 274 with more than 700 others injured, Gaza’s health ministry says. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Doctors describe the scenes inside Al-Aqsa Hospital in central Gaza as a “complete bloodbath”, with one medic saying the inside of the hospital “looks like a slaughterhouse”. Doctors Without Borders says Al-Aqsa and Nasser hospitals are “overwhelmed”.

“A short time ago, interceptors were launched at a suspicious aerial target that crossed into the country from Lebanon, the event is over,” it said in a post on X.

“Alerts for rocket and missile fire were activated in the Acre and Kiryat Bialik areas for fear of falling interceptor fragments.”

The violence comes as both Hezbollah and Israel increased cross-border fighting that has persisted since October of last year, with the Lebanon-based group saying it seeks to draw Israeli resources away from the war in Gaza.

Israeli officials have ratcheted up rhetoric in recent days, raising the prospect of a more destructive escalation along its northern border.

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WATCH: How plight of Israeli captives affects chances of a deal
Four captives were brought back from Gaza and hundreds of Palestinians were killed during the Israeli military’s operation.

On the streets of Israel, many are celebrating – but also demanding that all remaining captives be freed under a deal. It is one the US Secretary of State Antony Blinken is coming to Israel to push for this week.

Soon after the Israeli raid started at about 11am (08:00 GMT) in Nuseirat’s busy market area, bombs rained down and turned the neighbourhood into “smoke and flames”, said Muhannad Thabet, 35, a resident.

“People were screaming – young and old, women and men. Everyone wanted to flee the place, but the bombing was intense and anyone who moved was at risk of being killed because of the heavy bombardment and gunfire.

“Houses were destroyed with their occupants inside. There were also large numbers of displaced people and shops, stalls and cars were on fire because of the bombing.”

Israel sent in a special forces team of troops and Shin Bet operatives who simultaneously raided two buildings to extract the captives – Noa Argamani, 26, Almog Meir Jan, 22, Andrey Kozlov, 27, and Shlomi Ziv, 41.

Palestinians look at the rubble of the settlements after Israeli warplanes targeted the house of the El-Safi family in the Nuseirat refugee camp area in Gaza on June 09
Palestinians survey the debris after Israeli warplanes attacked the Nuseirat camp [Ashraf Amra/Anadolu]
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Battles rage as Israeli tanks advance further into Rafah
A column of tanks moved into two new districts in an apparent effort to complete the encirclement of the entire eastern side of Rafah, touching off clashes with dug-in Palestinian fighters, according to residents trapped in their homes.

Palestinian medics said an Israeli air strike on a house in Tal as-Sultan in western Rafah killed two people.

The Israeli military said troops of its 162nd division were raiding some districts of Rafah where they located “numerous additional terror tunnel shafts, mortars, and [other] weapons” belonging to Palestinian armed groups.

Israel’s war on Gaza has killed at least 37,084 Palestinians, the Health Ministry said, and thousands more dead are believed buried under the debris.

More than two weeks have passed since the graduates’ commencement ceremony for 2024 at Harvard University, but Asmer Asrar Safi is still waiting to receive the degree for which he spent four years studying.

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