GAZA CITY, Palestine: Gaza’s civil defence agency said an Israeli air strike Thursday hit a school sheltering displaced Palestinians, killing at least 12, mostly women and children.
Civil defence official Mohammad al-Mughayyir told AFP there were “12 martyrs, the majority of them children and women, and a large number of injuries in an Israeli air strike on the Mustafa Hafez School, which shelters displaced persons, in the Al-Rimal neighbourhood in western Gaza City”.
Contacted by AFP, the Israeli military told AFP it “will try to look into” the report.
