At least 22 people, mostly women and children, have been killed in an Israeli strike on a school compound Saturday, Palestinian officials said, with Israel saying it targeted Hamas fighters sheltering there.

Cairo: At least 13 Palestinians were killed by an Israeli strike that hit a school sheltering displaced people in southern Gaza City, the Palestinian news agency Wafa reported on Saturday. A number of other people were wounded in a separate strike that hit a school in the same neighbourhood, Wafa added.

Hezbollah has pounded northern Israel with 140 rockets, a day after the militant group’s leader vowed to retaliate against Israel for a mass bombing attack, the Israeli military and the

Video taken by The Associated Press showed dozens of people including children digging through the rubble of the building.

Gaza's civil defence agency reported 21 killed in an Israeli strike on Saturday, the latest attack on a school sheltering displaced Palestinians where the Israeli military said it targeted militants.A spokesman for the civil defence agency,

Some 13 Palestinian civilians were allegedly killed in the strike, Palestinian news agency WAFA claimed, citing local reports.

Palestinians said an Israeli strike killed at least 22 people in a school sheltering displaced people in southern Gaza City on Saturday, while the Israeli military said the attack targeted a command centre of militant group Hamas.

At least 22 people were killed in an Israeli attack on a former school building in Gaza City, Palestinian authorities said on Saturday. At least 30 people were injured, including women and children, the health authority in Gaza said.