The Gaza Civil Defense Directorate says at least 17 people were killed, including women and children, in an Israeli missile strike Saturday in central Gaza.
The dead included eight children, and more than 30 people had been wounded, according to Civil Defense spokesman Mahmoud Basal, who added that people were still missing.
Basal said there was an Israeli missile strike on Al-Zaytoun School “which shelters thousands of displaced people from Al-Zaytoun neighborhood, southeast of Gaza City.”
The Israel Defense Forces said that aircraft carried out a strike Saturday on a school compound in central Gaza being used by Hamas as a command center.
The military said its aircraft conducted a “precise strike on terrorists” who were operating inside a Hamas command and control center, and that numerous steps were taken to mitigate the harming of civilians.
