(JTA) — A top Hamas leader called the Holocaust a "lie."
"The lie according to which they were a victim of a holocaust and the (Jewish) people are a victim — this lie has crumbled with the holocaust of Beit Hanun, the holocaust of Al-Fakhura and the other countless holocausts … committed by the Zionist enemy," Mahmoud Zahar was quoted as saying Jan. 6 by the the French news agency AFP.
Zahar was listing incidents during the Gaza War two years ago and marking the second anniversary of the landing of an Israeli shell near Al-Fakhura, a school run by the U.N. Relief and Works Agency in the Jabaliya refugee camp.
Hamas has said that 43 people, all but one of them civilians, were killed in the incident. Israel’s army has concluded that 12 people, nine of them combatants, were killed, and that its troops were returning fire.
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