The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said a Hamas "command and control centre" had been embedded inside the compound in Gaza City, which it targeted in a "precise strike" on 21 September. It killed 22 people, including 13 children and six women, according to the Hamas-run health ministry.

The Palestinian Authority’s official news agency said the Israeli military operation had included an incursion by ground troops and airstrikes.

Palestinians said the school was sheltering displaced people but the Israeli army said it was being used as a command center by Hamas.

An Israeli airstrike killed seven people in a school sheltering displaced families in Gaza City on Sunday, Palestinian health officials said, with the Israeli military saying it had targeted militants operating from the compound.

At least 22 people, mostly women and children, have been killed in an Israeli strike on a school compound Saturday, Palestinian officials said, with Israel saying it targeted Hamas fighters sheltering there.

Gaza's civil defense agency said thousands of displaced people had sought shelter at the school in Gaza City. Israel's military said in a statement the air force had 'conducted a precise strike on terrorists who were operating inside a Hamas command.

Cairo: At least 13 Palestinians were killed by an Israeli strike that hit a school sheltering displaced people in southern Gaza City, the Palestinian news agency Wafa reported on Saturday. A number of other people were wounded in a separate strike that hit a school in the same neighbourhood, Wafa added.

An Israeli strike on a school in northern Gaza on Saturday killed at least 22 people, according to the Gaza Health Ministry.

DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip — An Israeli strike on a school in northern Gaza on Saturday killed at least 22 people, according to the Gaza Health Ministry, while the Israeli army said that it targeted a Hamas command center in what used to be a school.

The Israeli military confirmed it struck the school in the Jabalia refugee camp, saying it was targeting Hamas militants inside who were planning attacks on Israeli troops. The claim couldn't be independently confirmed.

An Israeli airstrike hit a school sheltering thousands of displaced Palestinians in northern Gaza on Thursday, killing at least 11 people and wounding 22, including women and children, the territory's Health Ministry said.