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Hamas challenges Israeli account of Gaza hospital attack that killed 21

A journalist holds the blood-covered camera belonging to Palestinian journalist Mariam Abu Daqqa, who was killed in an Israeli strike on Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip, during her funeral on Monday [AFP]

Hamas has said that none of the 21 people killed in an Israeli attack on Nasser Hospital was a member of the Palestinian movement, after the Israeli military claimed it had targeted a Hamas surveillance camera and killed six fighters in its attack on the medical facility.

In a statement reported by the Reuters news agency on Wednesday, Hamas challenged the Israeli government’s account that claimed to name six fighters killed in the attack, which has drawn global condemnation for targeting journalists, medics, rescue workers and civilians.

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