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In rarity, Egyptian TV presses Hamas official on whether most Gaza casualties are military operatives or civilians
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleNurit Yohanan is The Times of Israel's Palestinian and Arab world correspondent
An anchor on Egypt’s Al-Qahera channel, seen as close to Cairo’s government, asks the spokesperson for Hamas’s Gaza health ministry at the start of an interview whether most of the casualties in the resumption of Israeli airstrikes have been civilians or member of “resistance factions,” an unusual question on an Arab channel.
The spokesperson, Khalil Dakran, responds that most of the injured arriving at hospitals are women, children, and the elderly.
Hamas figures routinely cast most of the casualties as women and children, and they don’t differentiate between members of terror groups and civilians.
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