Israeli forces stormed the dense civilian area of Nuseirat and shot Palestinians on sight, survivors said.
Israeli forces killed at least 274 Palestinians and injured 698 in a horrific surprise raid of Nuseirat refugee camp on Saturday — one of the most deadly single assaults by Israel so far amid its genocide in Gaza.
The Palestinian health ministry reports that Israeli troops killed 64 children and wounded 153 children during their daytime raid of the crowded civilian neighborhood; casualties from the attack have now overwhelmed the only remaining hospital in the central Gaza region, Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital.
In the operation, the Israeli army rescued four Israeli hostages who were captured by Hamas forces in October. In spite of — or perhaps because of — the sheer number of Palestinians who Israeli forces killed during the assault, Israeli officials described it as a “surgical operation, like a brain operation.”
Palestinians who survived the massacre, many just narrowly, recalled it as harrowing and indescribable. Israeli forces surrounded the targeted complex and prevented people from leaving as they unleashed bombs on the region and shot Palestinians on sight, witnesses told Mondoweiss.
“The street was full of people, and suddenly, all of them… They were on the ground, and smoke and blood filled the place. Everywhere we looked, shelling and shrapnel were flying,” 11- year-old Tawfiq Abu Youssef told Mondoweiss.
