Top EU diplomat says ‘bloodbath must end’ after Israeli attacks killed at least 274, according to Gaza ministry

At least 274 Palestinians were killed and 698 wounded in Israeli strikes on the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza, Gaza’s health ministry said on Sunday. The Israeli military said its forces came under heavy fire during the daytime operation.

The EU’s top diplomat, Josep Borrell, called it a “massacre”, while the UN’s aid chief described in graphic detail scenes of “shredded bodies on the ground”.

“Nuseirat refugee camp is the epicentre of the seismic trauma that civilians in Gaza continue to suffer,” Martin Griffiths said in a post on X, calling for a ceasefire and the release of all hostages.

  • girlfreddy@lemmy.ca
    75·
    5 months ago

    Do you think that Israeli forces are indiscriminately bombing and shooting Palestinian civilians to the tune of almost 1000 killed or injured?

    • AmidFuror@fedia.io
      84·
      5 months ago

      Indiscriminately? No. Without adequate or acceptable levels of discrimination? Absolutely.

      That’s not what I was responding to, though. I was responding to your writing that the Israelis lied about coming under heavy fire because they didn’t take heavy losses. The IDF has been known to lie, but that doesn’t make everything they say a lie. And your rationale for saying it was untrue makes no sense.

      • Chaotic Entropy@feddit.ukEnglish
        2·
        5 months ago

        Bombing of Nuseirat’s busy market area began soon after the raid started at around 11am (9am BST), turning the neighbourhood into “smoke and flames”, Muhannad Thabet, a 35-year-old resident, told AFP.

        “People were screaming – young and old, women and men,” he said. “Everyone wanted to flee the place, but the bombing was intense and anyone who moved was at risk of being killed due to the heavy bombardment and gunfire.”

        At least one wave of heavy airstrikes was launched to secure the passage of the three men, who had been held together. Argamani was rescued alone, from a separate location.

        Not. Discriminate. Enough.

      • Doom@ttrpg.network
        13·
        5 months ago

        It makes everything they say extremely untrustworthy.

        So how many KIA do they have then?

        • SloppyPuppy@lemmy.world
          92·
          5 months ago

          1 by the way.

          But I dont understand why is it even a measure. You expected probably best commando unit in the world specifically trained for this type of rescues to get heavy losses?

          • Maggoty@lemmy.world
            11·
            5 months ago

            Best in the world? A world that also has, (checks notes) SFOD, SEALs, SAS, and whatever the CIA is cooking these days.

            All of whom would have taken more than one casualty in intense urban fighting. And have done so in the past. Something doesn’t add up here.

          • Doom@ttrpg.network
            56·
            5 months ago

            I expect the “best commando unit” (your propaganda words) to have a lower death toll.

            The fact one of them was killed means the fighting probably wasn’t intense enough to warrant that level of violence.

            Fuck Israel and their indiscriminate killing

                • SloppyPuppy@lemmy.world
                  85·
                  5 months ago

                  Its sad indeed. But why oh why in the holy fuck are the hostages held in places with so many kids and civilians. Heck why oh why are there hostages at all??

                  • Doom@ttrpg.network
                    32·
                    5 months ago

                    Oh we’re just ignoring the destruction of all infrastructure, the starving and abuse that brought us here? Smfh 200 innocents is no mistake only fools would think that.

                    smfh