Agency spokesman Mahmud Bassal told AFP the death toll had risen to 25, with more than 100 others wounded in the strike on Dar al-Arqam School in the Al-Tuffah neighbourhood, northeast of Gaza City.
The Israeli military when contacted did not provide an immediate response, but said in a statement that it had struck a "Hamas command and control centre in the area of Gaza City".
"The command and control centre had been used by the terrorists to plan and execute attacks against Israeli civilians and IDF troops," the military said.
It was unclear whether it was the same attack that targeted the school.
The military, when contacted by AFP, said that it was unable to confirm whether the strike had hit the school.
Hamas condemned the attack, accusing the Israeli government of continuing its "targeting of innocent civilians as part of the ongoing genocide in the Gaza Strip".
Since the outbreak of the war in the Gaza Strip triggered by Hamas's attack on Israel on October 7, 2023, tens of thousands of displaced Palestinians have sought refuge in schools and other facilities to escape the deadly violence.
The health ministry in Hamas-run Gaza said on Thursday that 1,163 people have been killed in the Palestinian territory since Israel resumed large-scale strikes on March 18, bringing the overall death toll since the war began to 50,523.
Israel says struck Hezbollah operative in south Lebanon
Jerusalem (AFP) April 3, 2025 -
Israel's military said it carried out an air strike targeting a member of Hezbollah in south Lebanon on Thursday, its latest attack on the country in recent days.
"A short while ago, an IAF (Israeli air force) aircraft struck a Hezbollah terrorist who operated" in the area of Alma Al Shaab, a military statement said.
Lebanon's official National News Agency (NNA) reported that one person was wounded in an Israeli drone strike on a car in the village near the border with Israel.
It had also reported two wounded in Bint Jbeil in south Lebanon by an Israeli drone strike that targeted a car.
An Israeli strike on Beirut on Tuesday killed a Hezbollah official handling Palestinian affairs, the second such raid since a November ceasefire between Israel and the Lebanese militant group.
The health ministry reported four dead in the strike, including a woman.
Israel and Hezbollah separately said the strike killed Hassan Bdair, who a source close to the Iran-backed group identified as its "deputy head for the Palestinian file".
Israel also attacked the Hezbollah stronghold in the Lebanese capital's south on Friday in response to rocket fire, after it issued an evacuation warning.
Hostilities between Israel and Hezbollah spiralled into all-out conflict last September, and the group remains a target of Israeli air strikes despite the November 27 ceasefire.
Under the terms of the ceasefire, Israel was due to complete its withdrawal from Lebanon by February 18 after missing a January deadline, but it has kept troops in five places it deems "strategic".
The agreement also required Hezbollah to pull its forces north of the Litani River, about 30 kilometres (20 miles) from the border, and dismantle any remaining military infrastructure in the south.
The Lebanese army has deployed in the south as the Israeli military pulled back.
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