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Tuesday, September 10, 2024
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Tuesday, September 10, 2024
After IDF disputed claim 40 dead in Gaza strike, Hamas health ministry now says toll is 19
Emanuel (Mannie) Fabian is The Times of Israel's military correspondent
Palestinians inspect the damage at the site of Israeli strikes on what the IDF says is a Hamas command center embedded in a makeshift displacement camp in Al-Mawasi in the Gaza Strip on September 10, 2024. (Photo by Bashar TALEB / AFP)
The Hamas-run health ministry in the Gaza Strip revises the death toll in an early-morning IDF strike in the Khan Younis area downward to 19.
Earlier, Hamas’s civil defense and government media office claimed that 40 people were killed in the strike, a toll that Israel has disputed.
The Hamas health ministry says over 60 are wounded, and the death toll may rise as some victims are still under the rubble and sand.
The IDF says it targeted three senior Hamas commanders embedded in a humanitarian zone, and disputes the original claimed death toll.
