At least 54 Palestinians were killed in Israeli strikes in different parts of Gaza on Sunday, including two schools, according to health officials in the besieged enclave.
An airstrike in the southern city of Khan Younis hit a school, killing at least 16 people including several children, according to Nasser Hospital where bodies were taken. There was no immediate Israeli military statement.
Footage verified by Sky News shows multiple ambulances at the scene of the attack as well as the top of a building ablaze.
In the north, an airstrike hit the Khalil Aweida school in the town of Beit Hanoun and killed at least 15 people, according to nearby Kamal Adwan Hospital where casualties were taken.
The dead included two parents and their daughter, and a father and his son, the hospital was quoted saying by the Associated Press.
The strike in Khan Younis is reported to have killed at least 16 people
People flee the scene in Khan Younis
In Gaza City, at least 17 people including six women and five children were killed in three airstrikes that hit houses sheltering displaced people, according to Al Ahli Baptist Hospital.
“We woke up to the strike. I woke up with the rubble on top of me,” said Yahia al Yazji as he grieved the loss of his wife, who he claimed was three months pregnant, and daughter in the attack.
“I found my wife with her head and skull visible, and my daughter’s intestines were gone.”
Israel’s military in a statement said it struck a “terrorist cell” in Gaza City and a “terrorist meeting point” from the air and on the ground in the Beit Hanoun area, killing dozens of militants and capturing others.