Hamas challenges Israeli account of Gaza hospital casualties
- Last updated: August 27, 2025 | 11:30
Equipment used by Palestinian cameraman Hussam Al Masri, who was a contractor for Reuters, lies at the site where he was killed, along with other journalists and people, in Israeli strikes on Nasser hospital, in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, in this still image taken from video, on Monday. Reuters
Hamas denied on Tuesday that any of the Palestinians killed in Israel's attack on Gaza's Nasser hospital on Monday were fighters.
Earlier, Israel said it had killed six fighters in the attack but it was investigating how civilians, including five journalists, were killed. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu described it as a "tragic mishap."
The Hamas government media office said in a statement that one of the six Palestinians who Israel alleged were fighters was killed in al-Mawasi some distance from the hospital, and another was killed elsewhere at a different time.
The Hamas statement did not clarify whether the two who were killed elsewhere were also civilians.
Reuters