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Nuseirat Refugee Camp Massacre, 8 June 2024: Freed four Israeli hostages. Killed at least 274 Palestinians, including 64 children and 57 women. Injured over 700. Homes bombed 89. Israeli hostages were also killed.
EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Josep Borrell, said what happend in Nuseirat was a massacre.
Martin Griffiths, UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs, tweeted that Israeli forces left “shredded bodies on the ground”.
US President Biden “welcome[d] the rescue”, and Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant lauded the operation as “one of the most extraordinary operations” in his 50 years in the military.
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