Hamas says Board of Peace adopts misleading Israeli narrative on Gaza hospitals

Hamas on Thursday strongly rejected the Board of Peace’s adoption of what it called a misleading Israeli narrative about the use of hospitals in Gaza for military purposes, accusing the board of covering up Israeli violations against civilians and medical facilities in the besieged territory.

The movement’s statement came in response to a statement issued by the board on Thursday following an Israeli airstrike on Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, southern Gaza, which killed six Palestinians, including a child and a doctor, and injured around 30 others.

The board called for the immediate implementation of US President Donald Trump’s peace plan and condemned what it described as Hamas’s continued use of hospitals and other vital civilian infrastructure for military purposes, without providing evidence for the allegations, which Hamas denies.

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In its statement, Hamas said it categorically rejected the board’s position, accusing it of having “fully adopted the misleading narrative of the occupation” and seeking to “cover up the ongoing and unjustified aggression and the horrific and systematic violations targeting innocent civilians and civilian infrastructure, particularly hospitals in the Gaza Strip”.

Hamas said that “attempting to hold the victim responsible for the crimes committed against it by repeating the occupation’s allegations and lies about the use of hospitals for military purposes represents clear bias”.

It added that such a position was inconsistent with the responsibilities entrusted to the board and contradicted the most basic standards of objectivity and justice.

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