{"id":68780,"date":"2024-06-08T23:14:04","date_gmt":"2024-06-08T23:14:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/06\/08\/scores-killed-in-central-gaza-after-israeli-strikes-hospital-officials-say\/"},"modified":"2024-06-08T23:14:05","modified_gmt":"2024-06-08T23:14:05","slug":"scores-killed-in-central-gaza-after-israeli-strikes-hospital-officials-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/06\/08\/scores-killed-in-central-gaza-after-israeli-strikes-hospital-officials-say\/","title":{"rendered":"Scores Killed in Central Gaza After Israeli Strikes, Hospital Officials Say"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1050\" height=\"550\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2024\/06\/08\/multimedia\/08live-israel-nuseirat-operation-jcmw\/08live-israel-nuseirat-operation-jcmw-facebookJumbo.jpg?resize=1050,550&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"Scores Killed in Central Gaza After Israeli Strikes, Hospital Officials Say\" title=\"Scores Killed in Central Gaza After Israeli Strikes, Hospital Officials Say\" \/><\/div><p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The Israeli operation to rescue four hostages in the town of Nuseirat in central Gaza on Saturday unleashed a heavy aerial bombardment and ground operations that killed more than 200 people, according to two hospital officials in the area.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Residents there said it was the heaviest onslaught they could recall during the eight-month-old war. One hospital official said Israel struck a busy market, and video footage from the immediate aftermath of the attack showed bloodied bodies on the ground in what appeared to be a market that was struck.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Other video footage showed people running for cover as a powerful airstrike exploded near them.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Dr. Khalil Daqran, the spokesman for Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in nearby Deir al-Balah, and Marwan Abu Nasser, the acting administrative director of Al-Awda hospital in Nuseirat, said their two hospitals had received a total of more than 200 dead and many of the wounded from the attack on Saturday. Many of those killed were women and children, the hospital officials said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Israel\u2019s military spokesman, Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari, estimated the number of casualties to be under 100, without specifying whether these were dead or wounded or both.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The New York Times could not independently verify the death toll and it was not clear how many were civilians and how many were Hamas militants.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Hours later some of the dead had already been buried by their families while others had yet to be claimed, according to Dr. Daqran.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cThe martyrs who have yet to be identified are still in the morgue. It is difficult to identify them,\u201d he said. \u201cIt is difficult to identify them because some of the martyrs who arrived are nothing more than torn limbs from children and women and elderly.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Tens of thousands of Palestinian residents of Gaza have fled to Nuseirat in recent weeks to escape Israeli bombardments in other parts of the embattled territory such as the southern city of Rafah, where Israel launched a new offensive recently.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Khaled al-Saadouni, a young man who witnessed the Israeli operation in Nuseirat, told Reuters he had seen Israeli special forces arrive in an Apache attack helicopter and he also saw a white car with Israeli forces.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cThe Apache started to bomb and fire directly at people,\u201d he said, according to Reuters, adding that there were many dead and injured. \u201cPeople fled,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">He said there were many displaced Palestinians sheltering in the area that came under attack.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cWe brought 10 injured people in one ambulance. One of them was shot directly. We barely made it out through the alleyways,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Khitam Awad, a 35-year-old teacher, said she was at home teaching 25 young students and distributing gifts when the Israeli attack began nearby.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cWe were near the strikes,\u201d she told The New York Times. \u201cWe don\u2019t know how we escaped unharmed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The strikes went on for two hours in an \u201cinsane way\u201d and they couldn\u2019t move from the house, she added. One of her colleagues, another teacher, later found out that two of her relatives had been killed. They huddled in one room with the students, she said, as around them homes were being struck.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cWe were hearing the sound of the tanks,\u201d Ms. Awad said. \u201cOur nerves were frayed, we didn\u2019t know what was happening around us, bombs and rockets and tanks.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">At Al Aqsa hospital, the wounded and bodies of those killed filled the wards and corridors, according to the Gaza Health Ministry.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cThe situation is catastrophic,\u201d Dr. Daqran said. \u201cWe don\u2019t have enough beds for all the wounded. We have five times as many injured than we have hospital beds.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">As a result, many of the dead and wounded had to be sent to another nearby hospital, Al Awda, in Nuseirat.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cAl Awda Hospital is a maternity hospital but it has been transformed to receive the injured that we don\u2019t have space for in Al Aqsa hospital,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Abu Nasser, the acting administrative director of Al-Awda hospital, said the medical facility\u2019s capacity to hold bodies was limited and by the end of the day, some 100 bodies that had been brought to the hospital had been taken for burial by family members.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cWe\u2019re a small hospital,\u201d he said. \u201cWe simply don\u2019t have the space.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In a news conference outside Al Aqsa hospital, Dr. Daqran called on Palestinians in Gaza to donate blood and on the international community to help Gaza\u2019s hospitals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The flood of victims into the hospitals came at a time when the few still functioning hospitals in Gaza are struggling to continue operating as a result of continued Israeli strikes and a lack of medicine, medical equipment and overworked generators.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-798hid etfikam0\">Bilal Shbair<!-- --> contributed reporting.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/06\/08\/world\/middleeast\/israel-strikes-central-gaza.html\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Israeli operation to rescue four hostages in the town of Nuseirat in central Gaza on Saturday unleashed a heavy aerial bombardment and ground operations that killed more than 200 people, according to two hospital officials in the area. Residents there said it was the heaviest onslaught they could recall during the eight-month-old war. 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