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200 bodies at Nasser hospital in Gaza, say local authorities
When asked for comment, the Israeli military said: "We will come back to you on the matter."
PALESTINIAN TERRITORIES: Gaza's Civil Defence agency said Monday (Apr 22) that health workers had uncovered around 200 bodies over the past three days of people killed and buried by Israeli forces at a hospital in Khan Yunis.
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Mahmud Bassal, spokesman for Gaza's Civil Defence, told AFP that "civil defence crews are still recovering bodies from inside Nasser Medical Complex, and since Saturday bodies of nearly 200 martyrs have been retrieved".
Bassal said several of the recovered bodies had decomposed. "There is difficulty in the process of identifying them but civil defence efforts are ongoing," he said.
On Sunday, Bassal told AFP that some of those killed had been tortured. Ismail al-Thawabta, head of the Hamas government media office in the Palestinian territory, gave a higher figure of 283 bodies found at the hospital.
"We discovered mass graves inside Nasser Medical Complex" of people killed by "the occupation (Israeli) army", Thawabta told AFP.
"We demand an international investigation to closely examine these crimes against civilians, children, and women," he said.
