The deadly strike on the school in Deir al-Balah, central Gaza, killed one child and seven women, according to the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital. Witnesses, speaking anonymously, said the strike occurred while school managers were meeting aid group representatives in a room normally used by Hamas-run police. No police were present at the time.

At least four Palestinians taking shelter by a hospital were killed in a strike Israeli officials said was targeting a Hamas command center.

The United Nations is calling for an independent investigation into an Israeli airstrike on an apartment building in northern Lebanon that killed at least 22 people.

Palestinians in northern Gaza are describing heavy Israeli bombardment in the hours after airstrikes killed at least 22 people.

DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — An Israeli strike on a school sheltering displaced people in the Gaza Strip killed at least 27 people on Thursday, Palestinian medical officials said. The Israeli military said it targeted combatants, but people sheltering there said the strike hit a meeting of aid workers.

Displaced Palestinians make their way as they flee areas in northern Gaza Strip following an Israeli evacuation order, amid the Israel-Hamas conflict, in Jabalia, October 6, 2024. REUTERS/Hussam Al-Zaanin/File Photo CAIRO (Reuters) -Israeli forces tightened their squeeze around Jabalia in northern Gaza on Monday,

Mughrabi CAIRO (Reuters) -At least 10 people were killed and 40 injured in northern Gaza on Monday after Israeli tank shells hit people queuing for food, Palestinian medics said, as fears mounted in the enclave that Israel plans to displace all residents from the north.

At least 10 people were killed and 40 more wounded in an Israeli attack on northern Gaza when queuing for food at a UN distribution facility, according to unconfirmed reports from eyewitnesses. Eyewitnesses told dpa by phone that the line at the distribution centre operated by the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) in Jabalia was hit by Israeli grenades.