The Israeli army said it struck a Hamas' “command and control center, which was embedded inside a compound that previously served” as a school.

Gaza health workers say an Israeli strike on a school in northern Gaza has killed at least 22 people.

Palestinians said an Israeli strike killed at least 22 people in a school sheltering displaced people in southern Gaza City on Saturday, while the Israeli military said the attack targeted a command centre of Hamas.

The Hamas-run government media office said 13 children and six women were among the dead in the Israeli airstrikes on Saturday. The Israeli Army claimed to hit a Hamas command centre embedded in the compound that previously served as a school.

Sept. 21 (UPI) -- At least 22 people were killed, mostly women and children, and 30 others were wounded during a Israeli airstrike on a school for displaced children in Gaza, Palestinian health officials claimed Saturday.

The dead included '13 children and six women', one of whom was pregnant

An Israeli strike has killed at least 22 people in a school sheltering displaced people in southern Gaza City, Palestinians have said, while the Israeli military said the attack targeted a Hamas command centre.

An Israeli strike on a school in northern Gaza on Saturday killed at least 22 people, the Gaza Health Ministry said.

A spokesman for the civil defence agency said more than half the dead at the Gaza City school were children. According

Israel said it hit a Hamas centre, while Palestinian officials said most killed were women and children.

Local authorities say the strike hit a school sheltering displaced women and children, while Israel says it was targeting a Hamas command centre.

Palestinians said an Israeli strike killed at least 22 people in a school sheltering displaced people in southern Gaza City on Saturday, while the Israeli military said the attack targeted a command centre of militant group Hamas.