A video shared widely by Zionist Telegram channels on June 8th shows that the Zionist 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 settler journalist Barak Ravid, a special US military unit specialized in rescuing captives “supported the effort” that decimated the Nuseirat camp.
Multiple Zionist 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 US-funded 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 Zionist 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.
Zionist ground forces hid inside a truck used for the delivery of humanitarian aid to infiltrate the Nuseirat refugee camp and commit the massacre.
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.
Zionist media confirmed the troops hid inside a truck described as being used for “furniture delivery.”
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.”
The military spokesperson of the Hamas Resistance movement, Abu Obeida, affirmed on Saturday that the occupation’s massacre in the Nuseirat refugee camp was a “complex war crime that harmed its captives first.”
In a statement, Abu Obeida revealed that “The enemy was able to retrieve some of the captives by committing a horrifying massacre, but killed a few others in the process.”
He stressed that the operation “will pose a grave danger to the enemy’s captives, and will negatively impact their circumstances and lives.”
Earlier today, the Hamas Resistance movement affirmed that the occupation army’s announcement of the retrieval of several captives, after eight months of aggression in which it used all military, technological, and security means, and committed all kinds of crimes, from massacres to genocide, starvation, and siege, “will not change its strategic failure in the Gaza Strip”.
In a statement, Hamas highlighted that it was still holding a large number of captives, noting that it could increase its yield of captives, just like it did during the latest operation in the Jabalia refugee camp in late May.
Resistance continues operations
For the 246th day since the Battle of Al-Aqsa Flood, the Palestinian Resistance, in all its different military factions, continues confronting the occupation across different combat axes in the Gaza Strip.
The Resistance on Saturday engaged in fierce clashes with the occupation forces that attempted to penetrate the Nuseirat camp from the northern side, under artillery and air fire cover.
Al-Qassam Brigades
The Martyr Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of the Hamas movement, managed to detonate a pre-prepared minefield in a engineering unit, causing casualties near the separation barrier with occupied territories east of Rafah city in southern Gaza.
Its fighters also engaged a Merkava 4 tank with an al-Yassin 105 shell, while simultaneously clashing with an infantry force around the tank, near the al-Awda Roundabout in Rafah.
To the east of the al-Zaytoun Neighborhood, in southeastern Gaza City, al-Qassam targeted two D9 bulldozers with a Tandem anti-tank shell and an Improvised Explosive Device (IED).
Al-Qassam and Martyr Abu Ali Mustapha Brigades
Al-Qassam Brigades and the Martyr Abu Ali Mustapha Brigades fighters were able to target an Apache helicopter with a SA-7 missile over the Nuseirat refugee camp, in the central Gaza Strip.
Al-Quds Brigades
In turn, the al-Quds Brigades, the military wing of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad movement, affirmed that its fighters targeted occupied Palestinian towns and settlements in the Gaza envelope with rocket barrages in retaliation to Israeli massacres against civilians.
The Brigades also targeted a Merkava 4 tank with an RPG shell near the al-Huda Mosque in the middle of the Yabna Camp, south of Rafah city.
Moreover, al-Quds fighters confirmed targeting a military vehicle with an RPG shell, igniting fires near the cultural center around the vicinity of the Tayba Mosque in the Saudi neighborhood west of Rafah city.
In the Saudi Neighborhood as well, al-Quds fighters targeted a fortified Zionist force in a house with machine guns and a TBG anti-fortification shell, resulting in casualties among the force.
They also destroyed a D9 military bulldozer with a penetrative explosive device and targeted a military vehicle with a tandem shell near the UNRWA clinic in the Saudi neighborhood west of Rafah.
The Brigades’ military media published a video documenting the targeting of the Raim military base with a rocket barrage.
Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades
The al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades violently clashed with occupation forces in eastern Deir al-Balah with machine guns.
Its military media also published footage of its fighters pounding advancing occupation forces in easternmost al-Bureij, using several heavy-caliber mortar shells.
Al-Mujahideen Brigades
On its part, the al-Mujahideen Brigades confronted the occupation in the central area of the Gaza Strip, confirming that several military vehicles were destroyed.
Earlier today, Resistance fighters guarding settler captives had clashed with an occupation force invading the Nuseirat camp, which led to the death of an occupation officer from the Yamam unit.
Hezbollah carries out nine attacks
The Islamic Resistance in Lebanon – Hezbollah – announced that its fighters carried out nine operations so far across the Lebanese-Palestinian border, declaring them in support of the steadfast people of Palestine and their brave Resistance, and in defense of South Lebanon, its villages, homes, and civilians, against the continuous aggression.
Operations Overview
The operations on Friday evening through Saturday, June 8, 2024, came as follows:
1. At 11:25 p.m. on Friday, Resistance fighters targeted a gathering of occupation soldiers at al-Tayhat Triangle with rocket weapons.
2. At 1:10 a.m., after careful monitoring and tracking of occupation forces at the al-Raheb site, and as a group of soldiers moved within the site, the Resistance fighters targeted them with artillery shells.
3. At an unannounced time, Resistance fighters launched an aerial operation with an assault drone on a newly established artillery bunker in the Sinim area in the occupied Lebanese Shebaa Farms, targeting the positions and locations of occupation officers and soldiers, and achieving direct hits.
4. At 10: 45 a.m., Resistance fighters targeted the Zarit Barracks with artillery shells, achieving a direct hit.
5. At 2 p.m., Resistance fighters targeted the al-Summaqa military site in the occupied Lebanese Kfar Shouba Hills with appropriate weapons, resulting in a direct hit.
6. In response to the aggression targeting civilians in the Southern Lebanese town of Aitaroun, resulting in the martyrdom of citizens and the injury of others, Resistance fighters bombarded the al-Malikiya settlement with a salvo of Grad rockets.
7. In response to the aggression on the town of Al-Khiam, Resistance fighters targeted a building used by occupation soldiers in the Kfar Yuval settlement with rocket weapons.
8. In response to the aggression on the towns of Markaba and Aitaroun, Resistance fighters targeted the command headquarters of the al-Sahl Battalion in Beit Hillel barracks with a salvo of Falaq-2 rockets.
9. In response to the aggression on the town of Aitaroun, resulting in the martyrdom of citizens and the injury of others, Resistance fighters targeted a building belonging to military intelligence in the Masgav Am settlement with appropriate weapons, hitting it directly. This led to its destruction, fires, and casualties among the occupation forces inside, leaving them dead and wounded.
Iraqi resistance attacks occupation regime
Saraya Awliya al-Dam [Blood Guardians] declared on Saturday a strategic strike on the Rabin electricity generating station in Qaisariya within the occupied Palestinian territories. The operation was conducted via drones and resulted in direct casualties.
In their official statement, the Saraya said their actions are a tribute to the innocent lives lost in Gaza and Rafah and an expression of solidarity across battlefronts.
This move unfolds amidst sustained efforts by the Islamic resistance in Iraq against the occupation, serving as a resolute backing for Gaza and a response to the egregious actions committed by the Zionist regime.
The latest actions unveiled by the Iraqi resistance targeted the occupied port of Haifa by employing drones in conjunction with the Yemeni armed forces, in two coordinated military endeavors.
Preceding these developments, the Iraqi Islamic resistance proclaimed a significant strike on a vital Israeli installation in Haifa using unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs).