An Israeli air strike on a camp for displaced persons outside a school in southern Gaza has killed at least 29 Palestinians and wounded dozens, according to hospital officials.
Gaza’s Hamas-run ministry of health said the strike landed near the gate of a school in the town of Abasan al-Kabira, east of the city of Khan Younis, putting the initial death toll at 25.
A video captured over a dozen dead and severely wounded people, including several children lying on the floor of a local hospital.
The Israeli military said it was investigating the reports, which come days after it ordered civilians to leave Abasan al-Kabira and other areas in eastern Khan Younis,Â
The Israeli military said it was looking into the reports, which come a week after it ordered civilians to evacuate Abasan al-Kabira and other areas in eastern Khan Younis, prompting tens of thousands to flee, according to the BBC.
A source at the Nasser hospital, where the injured were taken, said the number of the dead was expected to increase.
This is the fourth attack on or close to schools sheltering displaced people in the past four days.
The Israeli military said the first three strikes were carried out because Hamas politicians, police officers and fighters were using them as bases from where they attacked Israeli forces.
On Saturday, the BBC reported that 16 people were killed in a strike on a UN-run school in the urban Nuseirat refugee camp, in central Gaza, which was home to about 2,000 displaced people, according to the Hamas-run health ministry.
A strike on a church-run school in Gaza City the following day killed a senior Hamas government official and three other people, local sources said.
And on Monday night, several people were reportedly wounded in a strike on another UN-run school in Nuseirat.
Source: BBC News 
