At least 20 people were killed in the noted attack that occurred on Monday, among them rescue personnel and five journalists from among others Reuters, AP and Al Jazeera.
The attack was a so-called double attack. According to BBC and other media, a drone attacked first. About five minutes later, when rescue personnel and journalists were in the process of helping the victims, the second attack came.
After world leaders, the UN and human rights organizations condemned the incident, Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu went out on Monday evening and called the incident a "tragic misadventure".
On Tuesday, one and a half days after the incident, a statement came from the Israeli military where they claimed that the attacks occurred as a result of discovering a camera placed by Hamas in the Nasser hospital area and that the camera was used to follow Israel's forces' activities – and to direct terror attacks against them.
But this claim is now being dismissed in a statement from the hospital, reports Sky News.
"Nasser Hospital categorically rejects these allegations and all other allegations from Israeli authorities aimed at justifying attacks on hospital premises".
IDF, which also claims to have killed six "terrorists" in the double attack, has so far not presented any basis for its claims.
