Six UN staff were among the dead at al-Jaouni Preparatory Boys School, where displaced Palestinian families are sheltering Israeli air strikes across Gaza overnight and Wednesday hit a UN school sheltering displaced Palestinian families as well as two homes,

At least 40 people including entire families were killed and 60 others wounded, Palestinian officials said, after an Israeli strike on a tent encampment in the designated humanitarian zone known as Mawasi.

Israel said it had launched a “precise strike” against Hamas militants operating from two school compounds in northern Gaza, as the family of a slain American lashes out at Israel.