Around 50 people have been killed in strikes that hit a Gaza City school, the director of Al-Shifa hospital, where the casualties have been taken, has said, AFP reports.

“About 50 martyrs were recovered from inside Al-Buraq school in the Al-Nasr neighbourhood in Gaza after missile and artillery strikes that targeted the school this morning,” hospital director Mohammad Abu Salmiya said.

AFP was unable to immediately verify the reported death toll.