More than 20 people have died after an Israeli airstrike on a UN school in Central Gaza that was home to tens of hundreds of people who were displaced.
According to the Israeli military, it attacked a UN school that was home to a “Hamas compound”.
Two missiles fired by an Israeli warplane at classrooms on the upper floor of the school in the Nuseirat refugee camp were reported to the BBC by local journalists.
At least 27 people were killed, according to the Hamas media office, which also charged Israel with carrying out a “horrific massacre”.
The dead and injured have been rushed to a nearby hospital by ambulances and rescue crews.
Social media footage featured demolished classrooms and lifeless bodies at a morgue covered in shrouds.

“Enough fighting! Numerous times, we have been forced to relocate. “They murdered our kids while they were fast asleep,” a woman hurt in the assault cried out on camera.
Israel’s accusations that the UN school had a hidden Hamas command post were denied by Ismail al-Thawabta, director of the Hamas media office.
“The occupation uses … false fabricated stories to justify the brutal crime it conducted against dozens of displaced people,” he stated to Reuters.
According to the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), a “precise strike on a Hamas compound embedded inside a UNRWA school in the area of Nuseirat” was carried out by jets.
In a statement, the IDF claimed to have “eliminated” Islamic Jihad and Hamas “terrorists” involved in the attack on southern Israel on October 7, which claimed about 1,200 lives.