About 20 people have been killed in an Israeli airstrike on a former school building in the southern Gaza Strip, Palestinian sources said on Monday.
Palestinian news agency WAFA reported that children were also among the victims.
In contrast, the Israeli military said Sunday evening’s attack targeted a “command and control center of Hamas terrorists.” They claimed that these individuals were operating from the former school building in the so-called humanitarian zone in Khan Younis.
Both parties’ claims could not be independently verified.
The trigger for the conflict in Gaza was the massacre by Palestinian terrorists from the coastal strip on October 7, 2023 in Israel, resulting in 1,200 deaths and more than 250 kidnappings.
Since then, Israel has been fighting the Palestinian Islamist Hamas movement in Gaza, where about 45,000 people have been killed so far, according to Palestinian sources as of Sunday. These figures do not distinguish between combatants and civilians.
