Hamas claimed the attack on the Al-Ahli hospital in Gaza on Tuesday evening was an Israeli strike. Israel produced visual and audio evidence to claim that a rocket launched by Islamic Jihad -- a Hamas rival in the Gaza strip -- had misfired, hitting the hospital.
The jury is out on what really happened, but truth may be a victim in the fog of war.
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IMAGE: A girl carrying her belongings walks in the
Al-Ahli hospital the day after Palestinians were killed in a blast on Tuesday evening.
Photograph: Mohammed Al-Masri/Reuters
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IMAGE: People walk with their belongings on the hospital premises. Photograph: Mohammed Al-Masri/Reuters
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IMAGE: A view of the church within the hospital premises. Photograph: Mohammed Al-Masri/Reuters
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IMAGE: A photographer on the the hospital premises. Photograph: Mohammed Al-Masri/Reuters
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IMAGE: A view of the Al-Ahli hospital, here and below. Photograph: Mohammed Al-Masri/Reuters
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span class="credit">Photograph: Mohammed Al-Masri
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Photograph: Mohammed Al-Masri/Reuters
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IMAGE: The site of Israeli strikes in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip. Photograph: Ibraheem Abu Mustafa/Reuters
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IMAGE: Palestinians killed in Israeli strikes. Photograph: Mohammed Salem/Reuters
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IMAGE: Israeli strikes in the central Gaza Strip, here and below. Photograph: Mohammed Fayq Abu Mostafa/Reuters
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Photograph: Mohammed Fayq Abu Mostafa/Reuters
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Photograph: Mohammed Fayq Abu Mostafa/Reuters
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IMAGE: Palestinians, who fled their homes to escape Israeli strikes, shelter at a United Nations-run centre in Khan Younis, here and below. Photograph: Ibraheem Abu Mustafa/Reuters
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Photograph: Ibraheem Abu Mustafa/Reuters
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IMAGE: A weapon magazine on the floor of a house in Kibbutz Kfar Aza, which was attacked by Hamas terrorists, in southern Israel. Photograph: Violeta Santos Moura/Reuters
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IMAGE: An Israeli artillery unit fires near Israel's border with the Gaza Strip. Photograph: Avi Roccah/Reuters
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IMAGE: Fire and smoke seen over Lebanon as seen from Israel's border with the country. Photograph: Lisi Niesner/Reuters
Photographs curated by Manisha Kotian/Rediff.com
Feature Presentation: Aslam Hunani/Rediff.com