Palestinian medical officials say an Israeli strike on a school where displaced people were sheltering in the central Gaza Strip has killed at least 17 people, mostly women and children.

At least 16 people have been killed in an attack by the Israeli army on a former school building in the Gaza Strip, according to Palestinian hospital staff. Many others were injured in the attack, reported staff at the al-Awda hospital in the Nuseirat refugee camp in the centre of the coastal strip.

At least 17 people have been killed in an Israeli strike on a school sheltering displaced Palestinians in central Gaza, as Israeli forces carried out attacks across the enclave. Palestinian medical officials said the Israeli attack in the Nuseirat refugee camp killed mostly women and children,