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Hamas-linked outlets deny report that group started gathering slain hostages’ bodies
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleNurit Yohanan is The Times of Israel's Palestinian and Arab world correspondent
Media outlets affiliated with Hamas are denying the earlier report on Saudi-owned Al Arabiya that Hamas had begun collecting the bodies of hostages and agreed to hand over its weapons to a body under international supervision.
In statements circulated by outlets such as Hamas’s Al-Aqsa Radio, it says that these are false reports with no basis in fact.
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