Palestinians said the school was sheltering displaced people but the Israeli army said it was being used as a command center by Hamas.

The Israeli army has continually accused Hamas of operating from within civilian infrastructure in Gaza, including schools and United Nations facilities

At least 22 people were killed in an Israeli attack on a former school building in Gaza City, Palestinian authorities said on Saturday. At least 30 people were injured, including women and children, the health authority in Gaza said.

At least 22 people, mostly women and children, have been killed in an Israeli strike on a school compound Saturday, Palestinian officials said, with Israel saying it targeted Hamas fighters sheltering there.

Israeli airstrike hit the Asqoula area in the Zaytoun neighborhood, causing casualties among those seeking refuge in the school.

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.

Cairo: At least 13 Palestinians were killed by an Israeli strike that hit a school sheltering displaced people in southern Gaza City, the Palestinian news agency Wafa reported on Saturday. A number of other people were wounded in a separate strike that hit a school in the same neighbourhood, Wafa added.

At least 22 Palestinians were killed and 30 others wounded on Saturday in an Israeli airstrike on a school housing displaced people in southern Gaza City, Gaza-based health authorities said. The school was in the Zeitoun neighborhood and most of the casualties were children and women, the health authorities said in a brief statement.

Video taken by The Associated Press showed dozens of people including children digging through the rubble of the building.