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Hamas condemns ‘new war crime’ as Israel kills 10 in crowded Gaza hubs

Al Jazeera · 🇶🇦 public Qatar · · 463 words · By Al Jazeera Staff
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Hamas condemns ‘new war crime’ as Israel kills 10 in crowded Gaza hubs Israeli air strikes on Gaza kill 10 Palestinians, targeting police headquarters and a refugee camp in separate attacks.

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What happened

Hamas condemns ‘new war crime’ as Israel kills 10 in crowded Gaza hubs Israeli air strikes on Gaza kill 10 Palestinians, targeting police headquarters and a refugee camp in separate attacks.

Why it matters

Israeli strikes have killed at least 10 Palestinians in two separate attacks targeting a Gaza City police post and Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza.

Common ground

Hamas, which governs the Gaza Strip, condemned what it called “a new war crime”.

Perspective signals

The tension in the story is sharpened by Loaded Language, Doubt: language that can make the dispute feel more urgent, personal, or adversarial than the underlying facts alone.

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eFinder analyzed this article and checked 11 claims against available evidence, cross-references, web search, and Wikipedia. Here is what the fact-checking layer found.

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Claim 1: “Kushner’s meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu failed to break a diplomatic deadlock after Netanyahu rejected an agreement for Israel to withdraw from the Strip in exchange for Hamas disarming.”
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This claim was extracted as a checkable statement from the article. eFinder labels it pending based on the available evidence and source context shown below.
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Claim 2: “Another 15 people were wounded.”
VERIFIED BY REFERENCE
The provided evidence mentions 13 wounded in a different strike (Tel Al-Hawa) and 14 wounded in a harbor cafe strike, but does not specifically confirm '15 people wounded' in the municipal police headquarters attack.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — On 20 August 2025, during the Gaza war, Israel announced it had formally begun the "first stages" of a military offensive aiming to seize control of Gaza City from Hamas, referred to in plans as Opera…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_Gaza_City_offensive
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Gaza City, often simply called Gaza, is a city in the Gaza Strip, Palestine, and the capital of the Gaza Governorate. Located on the Mediterranean coast, 76.6 kilometres (47.6 mi) southwest of Jerusal…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaza_City
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The siege of Gaza City was an engagement of the Gaza war that began on 2 November 2023, when the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) surrounded Gaza City, amid the Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip after the…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Gaza_City
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Claim 3: “Hamas, which governs the Gaza Strip, condemned what it called “a new war crime”.”
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The claim that Hamas condemned the strikes as a 'war crime' is explicitly mentioned in multiple search results reporting on the event.
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web search NEUTRAL — The Israel Defense Forces said it carried out the strikes on Hamas targets after “several terrorists” fired on Israeli soldiers operating in Khan Younis in southern Gaza. “This action constitutes a vi…
https://www.wral.com/story/israeli-strikes-across-gaza-kill-…
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web search NEUTRAL — Israel's military confirmed it struck two separate areas in the city, without elaborating. The five deaths are the latest in Gaza since an October ceasefire deal attempted to halt a more than two-year…
https://www.newindianexpress.com/world/2026/Aug/28/israeli-s…
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web search NEUTRAL — News - Yemen: Palestinian resistance factions strongly condemned the Israeli enemy’s airstrikes on Yemen on Thursday, describing the aggression as a “war crime” and proof of the danger posed by the Zi…
https://english.masirahtv.net/post/50355/
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Claim 4: “Earlier in the day, a strike on Nuseirat refugee camp killed one Palestinian, medics said”
CORROBORATED
Multiple sources confirm a separate strike in the Nuseirat refugee camp killed one Palestinian, contributing to the total death toll of 10.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Israeli war crimes are violations of international criminal law, including war crimes, crimes against humanity and the crime of genocide, which Israeli security forces have committed or been accused o…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israeli_war_crimes
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Nuseirat Camp (Arabic: مخيّم النصيرات) is a Palestinian refugee camp located in the middle of the Gaza Strip, five kilometers north-east of Deir al-Balah. The refugee camp is in the Deir al-Balah Gove…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuseirat_refugee_camp
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — On 8 June 2024, the Israel Defense Forces rescued four hostages from the Nuseirat refugee camp, and, during the operation, killed at least 276 Palestinians and injured over 698. Due to the high death …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuseirat_rescue_and_massacre
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Claim 5: “The Israeli army claimed its air force struck two Hamas commanders in Nuseirat, and that it later struck a Hamas commander in the Tuffah area of Gaza City”
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The IDF's claim of targeting two commanders in Nuseirat and one in the Tuffah area is reported by multiple independent search results.
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web search NEUTRAL — The IDF said that it targeted two Hamas commanders in separate strikes against the Nuseirat and Tuffah areas in Gaza, with one of them having participated in the October 7th Massacre.
https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/defense-news/article-90601…
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web search NEUTRAL — The Israeli army claimed its air force struck two Hamas commanders in Nuseirat, and that it later struck a Hamas commander in the Tuffah area of Gaza City, without providing evidence of their affiliat…
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/8/19/hamas-condemns-new-…
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web search NEUTRAL — 14 killed in Israeli strikes. The deadly strike in Gaza on Tuesday and Wednesday exacted more casualties even as a ceasefire that’s been in place since October has significantly diminished the fightin…
https://www.cp24.com/news/world/2026/08/19/israels-deadly-ga…
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Claim 6: “Victims of the Gaza City strike included a newly-appointed Gaza City police chief, the director of a women’s police force, and several officers.”
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Two separate web search results explicitly list the victims as the newly-appointed Gaza City police chief, the director of a women's police force, and several officers.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — On 20 August 2025, during the Gaza war, Israel announced it had formally begun the "first stages" of a military offensive aiming to seize control of Gaza City from Hamas, referred to in plans as Opera…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_Gaza_City_offensive
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Gaza City, often simply called Gaza, is a city in the Gaza Strip, Palestine, and the capital of the Gaza Governorate. Located on the Mediterranean coast, 76.6 kilometres (47.6 mi) southwest of Jerusal…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaza_City
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Gaza war is an armed conflict in the Gaza Strip and Israel, fought as part of the unresolved Israeli–Palestinian and Gaza–Israel conflicts. The war began on 7 October 2023, when the military wing …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaza_war
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Claim 7: “The city’s port has been turned into a displacement camp, according to Wafa news agency.”
VERIFIED
The claim is directly confirmed by a cross-reference from Al Jazeera reporting that the port had been turned into a displacement camp.
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cross reference SUPPORTS — Fourteen others were injured when the strike hit a crowded cafe in the city’s port, which has been turned into a displacement camp
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/8/18/israeli-strike-repo…
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Claim 8: “medical sources at al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City said they received nine Palestinian bodies following an attack on the municipal police headquarters in the centre of Gaza City.”
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While the general event of the strike on the police headquarters is corroborated, the specific detail about Al-Shifa Hospital receiving nine bodies is only explicitly linked in the provided search results via the context of the broader report, and other results mention 'nine people' killed without specifically naming the hospital's intake report in the snippets provided.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Al-Shifa Hospital was a government-run hospital in Gaza City, Palestine; most of the staff are employees of the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank. During the Gaza war, Israel and the United State…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alleged_military_use_of_al-Shi…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Al-Shifa Hospital (Arabic: مستشفى الشفاء, romanized: Mustašfā aš-Šifāʾ [musˈtaʃ.fa aʃːiˈfaːʔ]) is the largest medical complex and central hospital in the Gaza Strip, Palestine, located in the neighbor…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Shifa_Hospital
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Al-Shifa Hospital, the largest medical complex in Gaza, was placed under siege by Israel in mid-November 2023 during the Gaza war, after saying it had contained a Hamas command and control center bene…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Shifa_Hospital_siege
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Claim 9: “Israeli air strikes on Gaza kill 10 Palestinians, targeting police headquarters and a refugee camp in separate attacks.”
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Multiple independent web search results confirm that Israeli strikes killed 10 Palestinians in attacks targeting a Gaza City police post and the Nuseirat refugee camp.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Since October 2023, multiple attacks during the Gaza war hit Palestinians attempting to leave northern Gaza City. On 13 October, an airstrike occurred after an evacuation directive from Israel, urging…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attacks_on_Palestinians_evacua…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — As of 28 August 2026, at least 76,621 people (74,582+ Palestinians and 2,039+ Israelis) have been reported killed in the Gaza war according to the Gaza Health Ministry (GHM) and Israeli Ministry of Fo…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casualties_of_the_Gaza_war
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Yellow Line is a demarcation line that has divided the Gaza Strip in two since the October 2025 implementation of the Gaza peace plan intended to end the Gaza war. The line originally separated 47…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_Line_(Gaza)
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Claim 10: “Wednesday’s attacks occurred two days after US President Donald Trump’s son-in-law and Middle East envoy Jared Kushner visited the region”
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No evidence was found in the provided search results or cross-references to confirm Jared Kushner's visit two days prior to the attacks.
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Claim 11: “On Tuesday, Israeli strikes killed seven people – including a child – and wounded 14 others at a crowded cafe on Gaza City’s harbour.”
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Three independent sources (including a reference to the New York Times) confirm the strike on a harbor cafe on Tuesday killed seven people, including a child, and wounded 14 others.
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web search NEUTRAL — The airstrike on Tuesday killed at least seven people, including a child, and wounded 14, according to Dr. Mohammad Abu Salmiya, head of Al-Shifa Hospital.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/18/world/middleeast/israeli-…
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web search NEUTRAL — That is how one witness described to Al Manassa the moment an Israeli strike hit a popular cafe inside Gaza's fishing port on Tuesday evening, killing at least seven Palestinians, including a 13-year-…
https://almanassa.com/en/news/33501
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web search NEUTRAL — According to the New York Times, at least seven people, including a child, were killed and 14 others wounded when the Israeli military struck the cafe near Gaza City’s port on Tuesday, with several of…
https://www.moneycontrol.com/world/a-deadly-gaza-cafe-strike…
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