Hospital blast kills hundreds in Gaza, Israel and Palestinian militants blame each other | ABC News

About 500 Palestinians have been killed in a blast at a Gaza hospital crammed with patients and displaced people.
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Israel and Palestinian militants are blaming each other, with Palestinian health authorities saying the explosion was caused by an Israeli air strike.

The Israeli military blamed it on a failed rocket launch by a Palestinian militant group.

The blast was the bloodiest single incident in Gaza since Israel launched an unrelenting bombing campaign against the densely populated territory in retaliation for a deadly cross-border Hamas assault on southern Israeli communities on October 7.

Reuters could not independently verify who was responsible for the blast.

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