Marwan al-Hams, an official at Gaza-based health authorities, told Xinhua that about 21 Palestinians were killed in an Israeli airstrike on a school for displaced people in Khan Younis, while dozens of others, mostly women and children, were injured.

CAIRO: Israeli strikes in Gaza killed at least 53 Palestinians, including a journalist and rescue workers, medics said, and the Israeli military said its air and ground forces in the north of the enclave killed dozens of militants and captured others.

At least 40 people have been killed in an Israeli attack in the northern Gaza Strip, the Hamas-run civil defence organization in the territory said on Sunday. A spokesman said Israeli troops targeted a former school in the town of Beit Hanoun that was serving as accommodation for displaced residents.