An airstrike on the Nuseirat refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip has killed 13 people and injured dozens of others, most of them women and children, the Palestinian news agency WAFA reported on Saturday.
The agency cited local sources as attributing the attack to Israeli forces. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) has not yet commented and the report could not be independently verified.
The building hit in the attack is believed to be a former school. Since the war began in October last year, the school has been used as a shelter for families who have fled elsewhere in the Gaza Strip.
In its latest update, the Hamas-controlled health authority said at least 38,098 people had been killed in the Gaza Strip and another 87,705 wounded since the war began. The figures included both fighters and civilians.
At least 87 people have died in the past two days, authorities said.
Earlier, the Israeli army said it was continuing its operations in various parts of the Gaza Strip.
According to the Israeli army, several armed Hamas members who attacked soldiers were killed in the Shejaiya neighborhood of Gaza city.
During an operation that began in late June, soldiers also discovered tunnels and longer-range missiles, indicating that the enemy has made “a new attempt to establish a base in the area,” the military said.
The Israeli army has previously attempted to drive the Palestinian Islamist Hamas out of the neighborhood.
The Israeli military also reported that fighting continued in Rafah, in the southernmost part of the Strip, and that “several terrorist cells that posed a threat” had been eliminated there.
In an area designated as a “humanitarian zone” in the central Gaza town of Deir al-Balah, the Israeli military said it had struck a Hamas rocket launcher hidden there.
Rockets continue to be fired at Israel from the coastal area, despite the ongoing Israeli offensive there. A rocket aimed at an Israeli town near the Gaza Strip recently fell in an open area, according to recent Israeli media reports.
During the October 7 attack on southern Israel, terrorists from Hamas and other extremist groups killed 1,200 people and took 250 hostages in the Gaza Strip. Israel believes there are still around 120 hostages, but many of them are probably dead.
The unprecedented massacre marked the beginning of the war in Gaza, with Israeli leaders saying they still want to eradicate Hamas.
