Israel says it has a taped phone message backing up its account of how a British UNRWA official was killed last Friday in the Jenin refugee camp. In the message, recorded minutes before his death, Iain Hook told an Israeli officer that armed Palestinian gangs had broken into the UNRWA compound.
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