An overnight Israeli attack on a school in Gaza killed at least 20 people, including children, according to local officials. 

The school in central Gaza’s Nuseirat was sheltering Palestinians displaced by the war. 

Casualties were taken to two local hospitals operated by the Hamas-run Gaza health ministry. 

Meanwhile, an Israeli strike on Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir al-Balah, central Gaza, killed at least three people and wounded around 50 others.

Footage on social media showed tents and cars set ablaze by the strike as people attempted to put out the flames with hose pipes and buckets of water. 

Later footage showed rescue crews searching for survivors among smouldering tents and burnt out vehicles. 

The attacks came as US defence secretary Lloyd Austin warned Yoav Gallant, Israel’s defence minister, that action must be taken to address the “dire humanitarian situation” in Gaza. 

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