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- Dozens of people were also wounded in the Israeli strike that hit the Al-Hurreya School in the Zeitoun neighborhood
GAZA CITY: Palestinian civil defense agency in Gaza said Tuesday that 22 people were killed in Israeli air strikes and shelling of the Palestinian territory, including 11 killed by a strike on a school-turned-shelter for displaced civilians.
“At least 11 Palestinians were killed and more than 40 injured in an Israeli air strike that targeted Al-Hurriya School, which houses thousands of displaced people," the medics said.
Israeli forces said it struck “Hamas... command and control center in Gaza City,” adding that it “was embedded inside a compound that previously served as the ‘Al-Hurriya’ School." Palestinian armed group Hamas described the Israeli strike as a “new crime.”
Earlier on Tuesday, the civil defense said 11 people were killed in overnight Israeli air strikes and shelling.
In the northern city of Jabalia, seven Palestinians were killed and several wounded in an air strike on a residential building, civil defense spokesman Mahmud Bassal told AFP.
Another person was killed in a strike on a house in nearby Beit Lahia, which along with Jabalia has been the focus of a major Israeli military operation since October 6.
Two people were killed in shelling of Nuseirat camp in central Gaza, Bassal said.
In the southern city of Rafah, an air strike killed one person and wounded several, he added.
The Gaza war began with Hamas’s cross-border attack on Israel on October 7 last year, which resulted in the deaths of 1,207 people, most of them civilians, according to an AFP tally of Israeli official figures.
The figure was updated after an Israeli soldier wounded in the attacks died from his injuries on Tuesday.
Israel’s retaliatory campaign has killed 44,249 people in Gaza, nearly 70 percent of them are women and children, according to figures from the Palestinian health ministry in the enclave that the United Nations considers reliable.