Palestinian health authorities say an Israeli airstrike hit a school-turned-shelter in Gaza City on Saturday, killing more than 100 people.
The Health Ministry's Ambulance and Emergency service said the strike on the Tabeen school in central Gaza City also wounded 47 people.
The Israeli military acknowledged the strike, claiming it hit a Hamas command centre within the school.
It did not provide evidence.
'The death toll is now between 90 to 100 and there are dozens more wounded,' agency spokesman Mahmud Bassal told AFP news agency.
'Three Israeli rockets hit the school that was housing displaced Palestinians.'
Relatives of Palestinian children, who lost their lives following the Israeli attack
A women cries over a dead body following the missile strike
Palestinian health authorities say an Israeli airstrike hit a school-turned-shelter in Gaza City on Saturday, killing more than 100 people
A young man mourns over the corpse of a person killed in an Israeli strike on a school used by displaced Palestinians as a temporary shelter in Gaza
The Health Ministry's Ambulance and Emergency service said the strike on the Tabeen school in central Gaza City also wounded 47 people
A young girl cries inside a school used as a temporary shelter for displaced Palestinians in Gaza City, following an Israeli strike
Injured Palestinians are brought to Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir Al-Balah after Israeli attack on the central part of the Gaza Strip
People gather in the yard of a school used by displaced Palestinians as a temporary shelter, after it was hit by an Israeli strike in Gaza City on August 10, 2024
People check the damage inside a school.The facility, like almost all of Gaza Strip's schools, has been used as a shelter for people who have been forced to flee their homes by the war
It is the latest Israeli strike on a school housing displaced people in Gaza since the Israel-Hamas war started some 10 months ago.
The facility, like almost all of Gaza Strip's schools, has been used as a shelter for people who have been forced to flee their homes by the war.
According to the United Nations, 477 out of 564 schools in Gaza have been directly hit or damaged in the war as of July 6.
In June, an Israeli strike on a school sheltering displaced Palestinians in central Gaza killed at least 33 people, including 12 women and children, according to local health officials.
The war was triggered by Hamas' October 7 attack, in which militants from Gaza stormed into southern Israel, killing around 1,200 people and abducting 250 others.
Israel's campaign in Gaza has killed more than 39,600 Palestinians and wounded more than 91,700 others, according to the enclave's Health Ministry.
More than 1.9 million of Gaza's pre-war population of 2.3 million have been driven from their homes, fleeing repeatedly across the territory to escape offensives.
A woman reacts after identifying a member of her family among the dead at the al-Maamadani hospital
People react as they transport the body of a family member from the al-Maamadani hospital for burial
An elderly man sits amid the rubble inside
People sift through the rubble inside a school
Most are now crowded into ramshackle tent camps in an area of about 50 square kilometres on the Gaza coast
People check the damage inside a school used as a temporary shelter for displaced Palestinians in Gaza
Displaced Palestinians watch as first responders prepare to transport corpses of people killed
Most are now crowded into ramshackle tent camps in an area of about 50 square kilometres on the Gaza coast.
This comes after the White House expressed their frustration with a lack of progress on ceasefire talks between Israel and Hamas last night.
Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich earlier described a ceasefire proposal as a 'surrender deal.'
Kirby, a spokesman for the National Security Council, accused him of not caring about the fate of hostages held by Hamas terrorists and said that President Joe Biden would not let 'extremists' push talks off course.
'Some critics, like Smotrich, for example, have claimed that the hostage deal is a surrender to Hamas, or that hostages should not be exchanged for prisoners,' he said on a briefing call with reporters.
'Smotrich essentially suggests that the war ought to go on indefinitely without pause and with the lives of the hostages of no real concern at all—his arguments are dead wrong. They're misleading the Israeli public.'
