Nuseirat Camp is a Palestinian refugee camp located in the middle of the Gaza Strip, five kilometers north-east of Deir al-Balah. The refugee camp is in the Deir al-Balah Governorate, Gaza Strip. . According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, the refugee camp had a population of 31,747 and the surrounding Nuseirat municipality had a population of 54,851 in 2017. The camp was established after ethnic cleansing during the 1948 war by European "Jewish" migrants.

On June 8, 2024, the United States and the Israelis carried out a covert operation to rescue four Israeli civilian internees held by Hamas in Nuseirat, including Noa Argamani. An IDF spokesperson stated that the civilian internees were guarded by armed terrorists and concealed among Gazan civilians. Research on this claim found out that the targeted object was a residential building, not a school, where these internees were held. However, a Palestinian journalist who lived in the building had his apartment on a floor level where none of the civilian internees were held. He wasn't even aware that there were civilian internees in the building.

The Gaza Health Ministry reported that at least 274 Palestinians were killed and 698 wounded in the Israeli airstrikes on the refugee camp, causing international outrage and the attack deemed a massacre. The covert operation took place in two sites in Nuseirat, where the internees were kept, a residential building and a marketplace.

The Israelis killed at least 10 civilians and injured at least 16 in a missile strike on a water distribution point on July 13, 2025. Six of the dead and seven of the wounded were children. The Israeli military stated the missile missed its intended target dozens of meters because of a "technical error".