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Israel claims 210 Palestinian lives in Gaza to retrieve four captives
The Israeli forces directly targeted civilians, in including children, during “a barbaric and brutal aggression” against Nuseirat refugee camp, Gaza government media office said, adding that at least 210 people were left dead and over 400 others injured.
The injured 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 Palestinian 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.
A report by Reuters said that it was not immediately clear if the “captive releasing operation” and the Israeli air assault were part of the same operation but both took place in central Gaza’s al-Nuseirat, a densely built-up and often embattled area in the eight-month-old war on the besieged strip.
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.
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.
Israel’s war on Gaza has so far killed more than 36,801 people, according the Gaza health ministry.