An Israeli airstrike that hit a school housing thousands of displaced Palestinians killed at least 30 people, most of them women and children, in Deir al-Balah, central Gaza, on Saturday.

Israel claimed to have hit a Hamas command center, which the resistance faction denied.

Videos and eyewitness accounts point to civilians bearing the brunt of the attack.

Journalists with the Associated Press “saw a dead toddler in an ambulance and bodies covered with blankets,” the news agency reported.

“Shattered walls gaped and classrooms were in ruins,” the agency added. “People searched the rubble strewn with pillows and other signs of habitation.” …..more