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US involved in Israeli operation in Nuseirat that killed over 200 Palestinians
Four captives released and taken to hospital as Israeli bombs pound central Gaza
The Israeli military had US support in rescuing four captives from Gaza in a "complex daytime operation" in Nuseirat that killed over 200 Palestinians.
A US official told Axios that the US hostages cell in Israel had "supported" the effort to rescue the captives.
Earlier on Saturday, the army said it had been "targeting terrorist infrastructure in the Nuseirat area", north of the town of Deir al-Balah in the centre of the besieged enclave.
The Palestinian government media office in Gaza said the death toll from Israel's attack on central Gaza had reached at least 210, with 400 more wounded.
The Palestinian health ministry confirmed that a large number of dead and wounded Palestinian had arrived at Al-Aqsa Martyrs hospital. It said that most of them were children and women.
"The occupation has annihilated the Nuseirat refugee camp. Innocent and unarmed civilian were bombed in their homes. I've never seen anything like this. It's a catastrophe," local Nidal Abdo told Middle East Eye.
"I came from the camp to here in the hospital on foot. I can't describe how we fled. I saw dead children and body parts strewn all over as we fled. No one was able to assist them. I saw an elderly man killed on a animal-drawn cart.
"Nuseirat was being annihilated. It was hell."
Hamas released a statement on Saturday condemning US complicity in the operation.
It said: "American participation in the criminal operation that was carried out today proves once again the complicit role of the American administration, its full participation in the war crimes committed in the Gaza Strip, [and] the falsity of its declared positions on the humanitarian situation and its concern for the lives of civilians."
Hamas said that the announcement of the "release of a number of its prisoners" in Gaza, referring to rescued Israeli captives, would not change Israel's "strategic failure in the Gaza Strip" after eight months of "massacres, genocide, siege and starvation".
"Our valiant resistance still maintains the largest number in its possession, and is capable of increasing its yield of prisoners," the statement said.
The four Israeli captives rescued were named as Noa Argamani, Almog Meir Jan, Andrey Kozlov and Shlomi Ziv.
The four, who were reportedly in good health, were taken to Tel Hashomer hospital for further evaluation.
All four were captured by Hamas on 7 October from the Supernova music festival.
Pictures on Saturday appeared to show Argamani hugging her father after being released.
"The heroic operation by the [Israeli army] that freed and brought home Noa Argamani, Shlomi Ziv, Andrey Kozlov, and Almog Meir Jan is a miraculous triumph," the Hostages and Missing Families Forum said in a statement.
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