Troops hid inside aid truck for deadly US-Israel operation in Nuseirat: war criminal Benny Gantz resigns from war cabinet
BREAKING: Israel war cabinet minister Benny Gantz quits Netanyahu’s government
Gantz’s departure will not endanger the parliamentary majority in the Knesset held by the ruling right-wing coalition.
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Israeli minister Benny Gantz has announced his resignation from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s emergency government, withdrawing the only centrist power in the embattled leader’s far-right coalition, amid a months-long assault on Gaza.
“Netanyahu is preventing us from advancing toward true victory. That is why we are leaving the emergency government today, with a heavy heart but with full confidence,” Gantz said at a televised news conference on Sunday.
YEMEN CLAIM: UK Warship "HMS DIAMOND" Directly Hit with Ballistic Missiles
Ansar Allah, the name of the group calling themselves Houthis , that run the country of Yemen, announced this morning the United Kingdom Destroyer "HMS DIAMOND" was directly hit during an attack today.
Houthi Spokesman Saree announced this latest operation is in response to U.S-Israeli Nuseirat massacre.
According to intelligence information, both US and Israeli Forces came ashore in Gaza via the Pier set up by the US. The troops then took/stole an aid truck, used it to drive to Nuseirat, where those troops opened fire upon Palestinians for an alleged hostage rescue.
Photos circulating on social media show IDF troops, being accompanied by troops in different uniforms, undertaking the operation. Allegations circulating on social media say they were American Troops.
'Bodies were in pieces, scattered in the streets': Nuseirat massacre
Gaza's Health Ministry confirms the loss of 274 Palestinians in cold blood, including many children after the Israeli massacre in the Nuseirat refugee camp on Saturday.
This child was killed by Israeli and USA special forces who infiltrated into Nuseriat via international aid convoys and massacred people at Nuseirat camp on Saturday. (ISMAIL JOOD/X)
Shock and grief have suffocated the streets of the Nuseirat refugee camp after 274 Palestinians, of all ages, yet mainly children, were massacred in cold blood on Saturday, as per Gaza's Health Ministry.
The harrowing images emerging from the recent massacre have reverberated across the globe, igniting a wave of widespread protests and demonstrations. From bustling city streets in Chicago to remote villages in Pakistan, people everywhere are united in their condemnation of the Israeli atrocities witnessed in Gaza.
CENTCOM denies US-built Gaza port used for Israel's Nuseirat massacre
A military helicopter extracting four Israeli captives took off from the beach at the site of the Gaza pier
US Central Command (CENTCOM) issued a statement on 9 June denying that the US-built pier off the coast of Gaza was used during the Israeli operation in Nuseirat camp that killed at least 274 Palestinians and rescued four Israeli captives.
Evidence of Israel's use of the pier came from a video shared on social media by an Israeli soldier. The video showed the helicopter used to extract the captives taking off from the Gaza Beach, where the pier is located.
"The humanitarian pier facility, including its equipment, personnel, and assets, were not used in the operation to rescue hostages today in Gaza. An area south of the facility was used by the Israelis to safely return the hostages to Israel," Centcom said in a statement posted to social media site X.
"Any such claim to the contrary is false. The temporary pier on the coast of Gaza was put in place for one purpose only, to help move additional, urgently needed lifesaving assistance into Gaza," the statement added.
However, the pier has provided only small amounts of humanitarian aid, and US officials acknowledged assisting Israel in the rescue operation. This suggests the US built the port to support Saturday's military operation and others that the Israeli army may carry out.
National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan said in a statement on the rescue operation that "The United States is supporting all efforts to secure the release of hostages still held by Hamas, including American citizens. This includes through ongoing negotiations or other means."
After bad weather damaged the pier late last month, causing aid to be suspended, Stephane Dujarric, spokesperson for UN Secretary-General António Guterres, said the pier "cannot replace" opening land crossings that had been blocked by Israel. While about 97 trucks of aid had come over the pier, Dujarric said, "it's just a small add to what we actually need."
From Zero Hedge
US Admits Role In Israeli Rescue Operation That Killed Over 200 Palestinians
The United States has denied ongoing allegations that it was militarily involved in Israel's Saturday raid on a central Gaza Hamas stronghold which returned alive four hostages who had been kidnapped on Oct.7.
"Well, the one thing I can say is that there were no U.S. forces, no U.S. boots on the ground involved in this operation. We did not participate militarily in this operation," US National Security advisor Jake Sullivan said in a CNN interview on Sunday. There have been widespread claims that US special forces advisers were on the ground in some capacity, but this hasn't been met with confirmation.
However, it has been reported that "A U.S. official told Axios the U.S. hostage cell in Israel supported the effort to rescue the four hostages." The precise level of 'support' and details of this involvement hasn't been revealed, but The New York Times has so far described that US officials in Israel had been "providing intelligence and other logistical support."
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Troops hid inside aid truck for deadly US-Israel operation in Nuseirat
The Palestinian resistance called the operation a 'complex war crime' and reported that the Israeli army killed a number of their remaining captives during a massacre that left over 200 dead
Israeli ground forces hid inside a truck used for the delivery of humanitarian aid to infiltrate the Nuseirat refugee camp on 8 June and perpetrate a new massacre of more than 200 Palestinians.
Footage aired by Al Jazeera TV shows the truck inside Nuseirat accompanied by armored tanks.
“A truck arrived carrying humanitarian aid and clothes, and suddenly 10 soldiers got out and shot me, once in the chest and twice in the feet. The artillery shelling started, and I saw dozens of citizens on the ground, including people with their heads cut off,” a Palestinian man who survived the massacre told reporters.
“The truck came from the American port that the occupation established in the Gaza Sea,” he adds.
Israeli media confirmed the troops hid inside a truck described as being used for “furniture delivery.”
“Israeli forces, including Shin Bet and the Israel Police special counterterrorism unit, Yamam, utilized a furniture delivery truck as cover to infiltrate the area near Al-Awda Hospital,” Israel Hayom reported in the hours following the bloody operation that saw the recovery of four Israeli captives.
The captives were withdrawn to the US-built floating pier using the same truck.
Gaza health officials have reported that over 200 Palestinians, the majority women and children, were killed during the operation that was launched with the assistance of the US army.
“We confirm that what was revealed by American and Hebrew media about American participation in the criminal operation that was carried out today,” Hamas said in a statement, adding that Washington's involvement “proves once again the complicit role of the American administration and its full participation in the war crimes committed in the Gaza Strip.”
“We call on our Arab and Islamic peoples, and the free people of the world, to put more pressure and escalate the movement denouncing the aggression and genocide in Gaza … We must work to stop it and bring its perpetrators to justice to hold them accountable for their crimes and killing of children and civilians in cold blood,” the statement adds.
Dr Tanya Haj-Hassan, a pediatric intensive care doctor with Doctors Without Borders (MSF), told Al Jazeera that Al-Aqsa Hospital “is a complete bloodbath … it looks like a slaughterhouse.” “There is blood everywhere. There are many people missing, extremities. It was so horrific."
“We will not stop working until all hostages come home and a ceasefire is reached. It is essential that it happens,” US President Joe Biden said from France. “The United States is supporting all efforts to secure the release of hostages still held by Hamas, including American citizens. This includes through ongoing negotiations or other means,” National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan added from Washington.
The spokesman for Hamas' armed wing, the Qassam Brigades, said later on Saturday that the massacre in Nuseirat is a “complex war crime,” revealing that Israel also killed a number of the remaining captives.
“By committing horrific massacres, the enemy was able to free some of his captives, but at the same time, he killed some of them during the operation. The operation will pose a great danger to the enemy prisoners and will have a devastating impact on their conditions and lives,” the statement by Abu Obeida reads.
For their part, Israeli officials hailed their first successful captive rescue operation after eight months of a genocidal war.
“They said that this operation will be [under] very complicated and dangerous circumstances. I knew that, but without hesitation, I decided to do this operation because they were Israeli captives, and I trusted the heroes in Yamam and Shabak [special police commandos and internal security] who attacked and freed the captives,” Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu said.
The recovery of the four captives also prompted opposition leader Benny Gantz to delay his impending resignation from Netanyahu's emergency government.
US army aided Israel in bloody military op launched from Gaza 'Aid Pier'
The operation saw the mass killing of over 200 Palestinians, with health officials describing the inside of Al-Aqsa Hospital as a 'slaughterhouse'
A video shared widely by Hebrew Telegram channels on 8 June shows that the Israeli army made use of the US-built pier installed in central Gaza as part of a bloody rescue operation that saw the killing of at least 210 Palestinians in the Nuseirat refugee camp.
Furthermore, according to Israeli journalist Barak Ravid, a special US military unit specialized in rescuing captives “supported the effort” that decimated the Nuseirat camp.
Multiple Israeli media outlets reported on Saturday afternoon that a special forces unit penetrated deep into the Nuseirat camp to recover four living captives amid heavy bombing by Israeli warplanes.
They were then flown out of Gaza via the US-built pier, which had been reinstalled on the coast on Friday after undergoing tens of millions in repairs.
On Saturday, the Israeli army announced that it has started “securing the coastal area of the US military's Joint Logistics Over-the-Shore (JLOTS) pier in Gaza.”
Upon announcing the project earlier this year, Washington stated that the floating pier was built to serve as a “maritime corridor” to deliver desperately needed aid into Gaza.
“I’m directing the US military to lead an emergency mission to establish a temporary pier on the Gaza coast in the Mediterranean. This pier will facilitate the arrival of large ships loaded with food, water, medicine, and temporary shelters,” US President Joe Biden said earlier this year when announcing plans for the pier, purportedly to make up for an Israeli blockade of all land crossings into the besieged enclave.
Nevertheless, the Palestinian resistance repeatedly warned that the floating pier was built to deliver weapons to Israel.
“The pier is intended to provide cover for Washington’s support for the occupation state with weapons … International and regional talk about introducing aid has had no real impact on the famine in the strip,” Hamas said last month.
The Cradle columnist Suat Delgen recently questioned whether the US-built pier is meant to serve as a “smokescreen for political maneuvers.”
“The suspicion is that the project, while ostensibly ‘facilitating’ aid delivery, might also allow for increased control over the entirety of Gaza under the guise of humanitarian assistance. This control could potentially streamline Israel’s military operations and fortify its strategic positions within Gaza, ultimately influencing the broader geopolitical dynamics of the conflict.”