At least 30 killed by Israeli air strikes at a Gaza school

Israeli air strikes at a shelter in Sujaya, in downtown Gaza, killed at least 15 Palestinians and injured dozens more Thursday, according to Gaza Civil Protection.

Three rockets hit the Daal al-Mughrab School, where hundreds of displaced people had sought refuge, according to Gaza Civil Protection spokesman Mahmoud Basal. He added that attacks <x0 marked a school that houses a large number of civilians”.

There are many martyrs still under the ruins of that school. This school houses thousands of civilians and was completely destroyed”, he said.

The Israeli Army confirmed the attack, claiming that the school “used by Hamas as a shelter for commanders and operatives and to plan terrorist attacks against the state of Israel”. CNN cannot independently verify the IDF's statement.

The video provided by CNN filming the victims' arrival at Baptist Al-Ahli Hospital showed the donkey carts rushing through the yard to evacuate the dead and the wounded.

A recent Israeli military invasion into the neighbourhood had seriously damaged the Daal al-Mughrabi school and a adjacent school, but hundreds of desperate Palestinians had returned to build improvised shelters there.

In a separate attack, two children were reportedly killed in an Israeli air raid on Nusira, also in central Gaza. The bodies of two children were taken to the local Al-Awda hospital. /Telegraphy/