
AT LEAST 274 Palestinians were killed and hundreds more were wounded in the Israeli raid that rescued four hostages held by Hamas, Gaza’s Health Ministry said today.
The news of the massacre and freeing of the hostages broke as tens of thousands of pro-Palestinian activists prepared to form a “people’s red line” around the White House in Washington DC on Saturday.
The Israeli rescue mission, deep into Nuseirat in central Gaza, was the largest rescue since the surprise October 7 attack by Hamas and other resistance fighters during which some 1,200 people were killed and about 250 taken hostage.

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