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At least 60 people have been killed in an Israeli airstrike on the Tabeen school in central Gaza City on Saturday morning – the facility was being used as a shelter
An Israeli airstrike hit a school-turned-shelter in Gaza City on Saturday morning, killing more than 60 people, health authorities have said.
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 has acknowledged the strike and claimed it hit a ‘Hamas command centre’ within the school, but has not provided any evidence.
It is the latest Israeli strike on a school housing displaced people in Gaza since the Israel-Hamas war started some 10 months ago.
Displaced Palestinians gather in the yard of a school hit by an Israeli strike ( Image: AFP via Getty Images)
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.
The strike hit without warning in the early morning before sunrise as people were praying at a mosque inside the school, according to Abu Anas, a witness who worked to rescue people.
Abu said: "There were people praying, there were people washing and there were people upstairs sleeping, including children, women and old people.
"The missile fell on them without warning. The first missile, and the second. We recovered them as body parts."