Israel’s war on Gaza updates: Death toll from Nuseirat attack rises to 210
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Rescue workers try to put out a fire after an Israeli attack on a residential building in Nuseirat, Gaza [Ali Jadallah/Anadolu Images]
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The Al-Aqsa and Nasser hospitals are treating an “overwhelming number of severely injured patients”, the aid group Doctors Without Borders (MSF), which has staff at the hospitals in central Gaza, said.
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken welcomed the release of captives, saying a truce deal “could lead to the release of all hostages… and an enduring end to the war”.
The EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell condemned reports of “another massacre of civilians” in Gaza and underscored support for the truce deal outlined by Biden.
Israel’s attack on Nuseirat will not affect the current prisoner-captive swap deal, says Mohammad al-Hindi, deputy chief of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad group, an ally of Hamas.
Israeli police arrested 33 people at protests in support of captives held in Gaza and against the government’s handling of the war in Tel Aviv.
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About 492 metric tonnes of humanitarian aid were transferred via the pier on Saturday, an unnamed US official told the Associated Press (AP) news agency, after the floating dock was reinstalled on Gaza’s coast on Friday.
The $320m pier, titled the “Trident Pier”, took about 1,000 US military personnel to build but operated for little more than a week before parts of it broke off last month during bad weather, requiring it be towed to Israel for repairs.
Though it was supposed to last until September, it facilitated the landing of just 1,000 metric tonnes of food aid while it was in operation.
Brad Cooper, the deputy commander of US Central Command, told reporters on Friday that the goal now was to get 450 tonnes of food and other supplies moving through the pier into Gaza every two days.
Aid agencies have said that only Israel’s reopening of land border crossings with Gaza – which its military has closed – can quickly deliver the quantities of fuel, food, clean water and medical supplies desperately required in the war-torn territory.
A satellite image shows an overview of trident pier, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, on the Gaza shoreline, May 18, 2024. Maxar Technologies/Handout via REUTERS THIS IMAGE HAS BEEN SUPPLIED BY A THIRD PARTY NO RESALES. NO ARCHIVES. MANDATORY CREDIT. MUST NOT OBSCURE LOGO
People have taken to the streets in Nablus in the occupied West Bank to protest after more than 200 Palestinians were reportedly killed in an Israeli attack on the Nuseirat refugee camp, the Wafa news agency is reporting.
Participants in the march called on the international community to do more to end Israel’s war crimes and for Palestinian unity against Israeli aggression, Wafa reported.
UN chief says ‘scores of Palestinians’ killed since memorial to UN staff on Thursday
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has shared a post on X about a memorial to UN staff killed in 2023, held earlier this week.
Guterres noted that 135 of the “188 UN colleagues who lost their lives in the line of duty last year” worked for UNRWA, and said that this was “by far the highest number of our personnel killed in a single conflict”.
Guterres also noted that “scores of Palestinian civilians continued to be killed in Israeli military operations” since the memorial was held on Thursday.
“This horror must stop,” he said.
At the time of the wreath-laying memorial on Thursday, Guterres said the UN was unable to reach the family members of many UNRWA staff to confirm they gave consent for their names to be read out, “because they have either been killed or forced from their homes by Israeli military operations”.
Norwegian diplomat condemns ‘massacre’, calls for remaining captives’ release
Norway’s Deputy Foreign Minister Andreas Motzfeldt Kravik has responded to reports of “another massacre of civilians in Gaza”, in a post on X.
“Norway condemns attacks on civilians in the strongest terms,” Kravik said.
In a separate post, Kravik also welcomed the news that four Israeli captives were “now free and safe” and called for the “immediate and unconditional release of all remaining hostages”.
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