“Barbaric”: Palestinians condemn Israel’s attack on the Nuseirat refugee camp, Gaza

As Israel continues its attacks throughout the Gaza Strip, Palestinian authorities have reported that an Israeli strike on the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza killed at least 33 persons.

The incident on Thursday was described as a “barbaric and heinous massacre” by the Gaza Government Media Office.

According to the media office, the majority of those killed were members of the al-Sheikh Ali family.

“The (Israeli) occupation army knew that this is a residential block with many apartment buildings housing dozens of civilians, children, women and displaced people”, the office said.

The news agency Reuters were informed by medics that Israeli fire had damaged neighboring homes and a postal office in Nuseirat that was providing shelter to displaced Palestinian families.

Source disclosed that small toddlers were in debris of a fallen building, covered in blood and dust.

Reuters reported that over 50 more were injured, in addition to the 30 or more persons killed in the fatal strike.

As Israel’s war enters its second year, it is not unusual for aerial attacks to murder many members of the same family in Gaza.

According to the Government Media Office in Gaza, Israeli strikes had wiped out at least 902 entire families in the Strip as of October 2024, the one-year anniversary of the war.

Israeli forces have struck shelters and buildings for displaced families throughout the war.

The Israeli forces claimed without proof that they are being used as operational hubs for the Palestinian armed group Hamas.

Israeli officials have not yet responded regarding Thursday’s walkout in Nuseirat.

Since the conflict started in October 2023, when Hamas launched a horrific onslaught on southern Israel that killed over 1,100 people, the most of whom were civilians, Israeli forces have also been claimed to have been repeatedly targeting health facilities, journalists, and humanitarian workers.

More than 44,800 Palestinians have been murdered by Israeli attacks in Gaza since then, with women and children accounting for more than half of the total.

According to a report, Israel’s campaign in Gaza was “by far the most intense, destructive, and fatal conflict for civilians” that the organization had ever documented.

According to the research, the number of civilians killed by Israeli strikes in Gaza during the first month of the war was almost four times more than the number of deaths from “any conflict Airwars has documented since it was established in 2014” over a comparable time period.

The death toll in Gaza, according to experts and rights organizations, is probably much lower than the actual number, with thousands more people trapped behind mounds of debris and the health facilities in the region fighting to continue providing care.

The attack on Nuseirat on Thursday occurred in a predominantly residential section of one of Gaza’s eight historic refugee camps.

These camps were reportedly created in 1948 during the Nakba, or “catastrophe,” which saw the forced displacement of Palestinians from neighboring territories.

Throughout the day, Gaza saw multiple strikes, including this one. Israeli forces opened fire on Saeed Jouda, a renowned physician at the Kamal Adwan Hospital, as he was en route to treat patients in the Jabalia refugee camp.

The result was his death.

Since the war began, an estimated 1,057 healthcare workers have lost their lives.

In its comments on Thursday, the Gaza Government Media Office also emphasized the burden on the enclave’s healthcare system.

“This latest crime coincides with the Israeli occupation’s plan to topple the health system in the Gaza Strip, exerting massive pressure on medical teams”, the media office said.

“It is coupled with continued attacks on hospitals and medical centers, putting them out of service. Moreover, the occupation prevents the entry of medicines and medical supplies and equipment as part of the crime of genocide”.

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