The Israeli strike hit a mosque where displaced people were sheltering in the Gaza town of Deir al Balah. A year after Hamas' Oct. 7 attack on Israel, a new front has opened in Lebanon.

The Hamas-run health ministry in Gaza says 26 people have been killed in Israeli air strikes on a mosque and school housing displaced Palestinians in the centre of the territory. Dozens of people were also injured in strikes that hit Ibn Rushd school and Al-Aqsa Martyrs mosque in Deir al-Balah early on Sunday morning, the ministry said.