Dozens reportedly killed in Israeli strike on Gaza

Gaza’s Hamas-controlled civil defence agency says dozens of people have been killed in an Israeli air strike on a shelter in a school in Gaza City.Israel’s military said it had struck the location on Saturday, describing its target as a Hamas command centre embedded in the school.

According to Gaza’s civil defence agency, the strike in the Daraj district killed at least 90 people and injured dozens more. Earlier in a Telegram post he described the scene as a “horrific massacre” saying crews were trying to control a fire in order to rescue the wounded and retrieve bodies.

The strike hit when people sheltering at the school were performing dawn prayers, leading to many casualties, according to a statement from the Hamas media office quoted by Reuters.

Medics had not yet been able to reach all the bodies, the statement said. Israel’s military said it had “precisely struck Hamas terrorists operating within a Hamas command and control centre embedded in the Al-Taba’een school”.