At least 30 Palestinians were killed and another 100 wounded in an Israeli airstrike on a school building in the central Gaza Strip, the Gaza Health Ministry said on Saturday.
The building is believed to have housed a makeshift field hospital, the Hamas-controlled ministry said, but the information could not be independently verified.
The Israeli military said it had carried out an airstrike on the Khadija school in Deir al-Balah to destroy a Hamas command center located there.
Fighters from the Palestinian organization Hamas used the building to coordinate attacks on Israeli forces and hide weapons, the report said.
Hamas systematically uses civilian objects for its own purposes and uses civilians as shields, it said. This information could also not be independently verified.
The war in Gaza was sparked by the unprecedented massacre of more than 1,200 people by Hamas militants and other groups in Israel on October 7 last year.
Israel responded with massive airstrikes and a major ground offensive. According to Hamas officials, some 39,000 people, mostly civilians, have been killed since the conflict began.
