An Israeli strike early Thursday on a school sheltering displaced Palestinians in central Gaza killed more than 30 people, including 23 women and children, according to local health officials in the Hamas-run Palestinian territory. The hospital treating victims said it had received the bodies of at least '37 martyrs' from the strike, according to Agence France-Presse. But a U.N.
. The school was filled with Palestinians who had fled Israeli offensives and bombardment in northern Gaza, they said.Ayman Rashed, a man displaced from Gaza City who was sheltering at the school, said the missiles hit classrooms on the second and third floor where families were sheltering. He said he helped carry out five dead, including an old man and two children, one with his head shattered open.
schools across Gaza have functioned as shelters since the start of the war, which has driven most of the territory's 2.3 million Palestinians from their homes. Israel launched its campaign in Gaza after Hamas' Oct. 7 attack in Israel, in which militants killed some 1,200 people and took about 250 others hostage. About 80 of those individuals are still believed to be alive and held captive in Gaza.
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