The Israeli army said it struck a Hamas' “command and control center, which was embedded inside a compound that previously served” as a school.

Palestinians said an Israeli strike killed at least 22 people in a school sheltering displaced people in southern Gaza City on Saturday, while the Israeli military said the attack targeted a command centre of militant group Hamas.

Local authorities say the strike hit a school sheltering displaced women and children, while Israel says it was targeting a Hamas command centre.

The Hamas-run government media office said 13 children and six women were among the dead in the Israeli airstrikes on Saturday. The Israeli Army claimed to hit a Hamas command centre embedded in the compound that previously served as a school.

An Israeli strike has killed at least 22 people in a school sheltering displaced people in southern Gaza City, Palestinians have said, while the Israeli military said the attack targeted a Hamas command centre.

The dead included '13 children and six women', one of whom was pregnant

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

Israel said it hit a Hamas centre, while Palestinian officials said most killed were women and children.

Gaza health workers say an Israeli strike on a school in northern Gaza has killed at least 22 people.

Palestinians said an Israeli strike killed at least 22 people in a school sheltering displaced people in southern Gaza City on Saturday, while the Israeli military said the attack targeted a command centre of Hamas.

Hezbollah is in turmoil after Israel took out two leaders of its elite operations unit in a strike on a command meeting in a Beirut stronghold that Lebanese authorities said killed 31 people.

Israeli forces have killed at least 14 Palestinians in tank and air strikes on north and central areas of Gaza, medics said, as tanks advanced further into northwest Rafah near the border with Egypt.