Israel’s war on Gaza updates: Death toll from Nuseirat attack rises to 210

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• Gaza’s Government Media Office says 210 Palestinians were killed in an Israeli attack on the Nuseirat refugee camp.
• The Israeli military later said the attack was part of an operation to rescue four Israeli captives.
• 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.

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.

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 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”.

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”.

Gaza’s Government Media Office says 210 Palestinians were killed in an Israeli attack on the Nuseirat refugee camp. The Israeli military later said it rescued four captives during the attack.

We’ve been reporting on arrests at antiwar and antigovernment protests in Haifa and Tel Aviv in Israel.

Israeli police are now saying that the number of people arrested at protests in Tel Aviv has risen to 33, The Times of Israel is reporting.

Balakrishnan Rajagopal, the UN special rapporteur on the right to adequate housing, has taken to X to call out what he deems to be the hypocrisy of those congratulating Israel on its rescue operation that returned four captives while staying silent on the hundreds of Palestinian detainees held in arbitrary detention in Israeli prisons and the thousands killed in Israel’s war on Gaza.

He says those who ignore the suffering of Palestinians “have lost moral credibility for generations and don’t deserve to be on any UN human rights body”.

The United Nations is set to announce the addition of Israel to a blacklist of countries and groups that have violated the rights of children during armed conflicts.

Whether any action will be taken is the responsibility of the UN Security Council. Some say – at the very least – it could put more diplomatic pressure on Israel.

But would that be enough to bring about real change?

Watch Al Jazeera’s Inside Story to hear the debate:

Secretary of State Antony Blinken has said that the “United States will not rest until every hostage is returned home”.

“The proposal that President Biden outlined eight days ago would bring relief to both the people of Gaza and the remaining hostages and their families through an immediate ceasefire,” he said in a statement.

Blinked said the truce “could lead to the release of all hostages, a surge of humanitarian assistance, Gaza’s reconstruction, and an enduring end to the war”.

He blamed Hamas for allegedly not accepting the deal. “The only thing standing in the way of achieving this ceasefire is Hamas,” he said.

Thousands of Gaza war protesters have held a “red line” rally near the White House, voicing anger at US President Joe Biden’s tolerance of Israel’s bloody war in Gaza.

Chanting “From DC to Palestine, we are the red line”, the demonstrators held a long banner with the names of Palestinians killed by Israeli forces scribbled on it.

Biden has faced criticism for supporting the US’s key ally Israel’s actions in the war, which has entered its ninth month.

The White House said in May that a deadly Israeli strike on Rafah did not cross a “red line” that Biden had seemingly set two months earlier when asked about a potential invasion of the southern Gaza city.

The protesters – almost all wearing red clothing – held Palestinian flags and signs saying, “Biden’s red line was a lie” and “Bombing children is not self-defence”.

The White House stepped up security with an additional anti-scale perimeter fence ahead of the demonstration, which saw chartered buses ferrying in people from as far afield as Maine and Florida.

The Israeli police arrested at least three people during a demonstration in the city of Haifa in northern Israel to denounce the Nuseirat massacre in the Gaza Strip.

The police were seen breaking up the protest demonstration, in which a number of activists and citizens from the city of Haifa participated.

They chased some of them in one of the city’s streets, assaulted them, and arrested them.

The protest movement was demanding an end to the war on Gaza and denouncing the massacres committed by the occupation authorities in the Gaza Strip, the most recent of which was the Nuseirat massacre.

Israel’s attack on Gaza’s Nuseirat refugee camp, which killed at least 210 people and injured 400, will not affect the current prisoner-captive swap deal, says Mohammad al-Hindi, deputy chief of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad group, ally of Hamas.

Al-Hindi said that conditions for the deal remain the same, in comments to Hamas-affiliated Al-Aqsa TV.

Rishi Sunak says on X that the rescue of four Israeli captives from the Nuseirat area, where Israeli attacks killed at least 210 Palestinians and wounded 400, is a “huge relief”.

It is “heartwarming to see the pictures of them reunited with their families”, he continued, without mentioning the unusually high death toll from today’s Isralei attacks on the Gaza Strip.

“We will continue to strive towards an end to the fighting as well as safety and security for all”, he added.

Doctors Without Borders (MSF) has said its teams are working alongside medical staff at Al-Aqsa and Nasser hospitals “to treat an overwhelming number of severely injured patients, many of whom are women and children”, following Israeli bombings this morning in the middle area of Gaza.

“It’s a nightmare at Al-Aqsa. There have been back-to-back mass casualties as densely populated areas are bombed. It’s way beyond what anyone could deal with in a functional hospital, let alone with the scarce resources we have here,” said Samuel Johann, MSF coordinator in Gaza.

“How many more men, women and children have to be killed before world leaders decide to put an end to this massacre?” Johann said.

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz was giving a speech when he was heckled by pro-Palestine demonstrators.

He addressed the protesters saying they also belonged to a democracy that allows free speech, before saying that Hamas’s attacks on Israel were “inhumane”.