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The Israeli military has denied a claim by Hamas’ armed wing that its fighters had captured Israeli soldiers during fighting in Gaza’s Jabalia, Reuters reports.
“The IDF [Israeli Defence Forces] clarifies that there is no incident in which a soldier was abducted,” the military said in a statement.
A spokesman for Hamas’ armed wing had said its fighters had captured Israeli soldiers during fighting in Jabalia but did not say how many soldiers had been abducted.
“Our fighters lured a Zionist force into an ambush inside a tunnel ... The fighters withdrew after they left all members of the force dead, wounded, and captured,” Abu Ubaida, the spokesman for al-Qassam Brigades, said in a recorded message broadcast by Al Jazeera on Sunday.
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