Israeli military spokesman Lieutenant-Colonel Nadav Shoshani says UNRWA hasn’t provided the names of its workers killed in Wednesday’s air strikes “despite repeated requests”, Al Jazeera reports.

Shoshani said a military inquiry found “a significant number of the names [of the dead] that have appeared in the media and on social networks are Hamas terrorist operatives”.

In response, UNRWA spokeswoman Juliette Touma said the agency was “not aware of any such requests”, that it provided Israel each year with a list of its staff, and it “called repeatedly” on Israel and Palestinian armed groups “to never use civilian facilities for military or fighting purposes”.

She said the agency is “not in a position to determine” if the school had been used by Hamas for military purposes, but UNRWA has “repeatedly called for independent investigations” into “these very serious claims”.

Without providing evidence, Israeli government spokesman David Mencer said the school was “no longer a school” and had become “a legitimate target” as it was used by Hamas to launch attacks. The school currently shelters about 12,000 displaced Palestinian civilians.