Israel said it had launched a “precise strike” against Hamas militants operating from two school compounds in northern Gaza, as the family of a slain American lashes out at Israel.

At least 11 Palestinians were killed in an Israeli airstrike on a school sheltering displaced people in Gaza City.

The UN says most of dead are women and children. The school, sheltering displaced people, had a Hamas police outpost, a Gaza official said.

The Israeli military has killed at least 11 Palestinians in an airstrike on a school sheltering displaced people in Gaza City as school carnage in the war-wracked territory continues apace.

Palestinian officials said on Tuesday that an Israeli airstrike on a school-turned-shelter in Gaza City killed at least 10 people. (Production: Wafaa Shurafa)

Israeli strikes in Gaza killed more than a dozen people overnight Saturday, hospital and local authorities said, as health workers attempt to administer polio vaccinations amid potential rise in

Israel's military says it targeted a Hamas command and control centre inside the Gaza City school.

Residents said Israeli forces had also blown up several houses in the Zeitoun suburb of Gaza City 5 km from Jabalia. Medical teams said they were unable to answer desperate calls

Mughrabi CAIRO (Reuters) -Israeli military strikes killed at least 27 Palestinians across the Gaza Strip on Friday, medics said, as health officials resumed vaccination of tens of thousands more children in the enclave against polio.