Gaza officials have told AFP they have identified 75 of 93 Palestinians killed in an Israeli air strike on a school building, while Israel’s military said the weekend raid had “eliminated” 31 fighters.

AFP was unable to independently verify the death toll at the school, which the Israeli military said it targeted because it housed a Hamas command and control base.

“There are 93 dead in the Al-Tabieen school strike, 75 of them have been identified,” Gaza civil defence agency spokesman Mahmud Bassal told AFP.

“The others have not yet been identified because some bodies are torn and charred by the bombardment.” He said the dead included 11 children and six women.

Amjad Aliwa, an emergency doctor at Al-Ahli hospital in Gaza City, confirmed that 75 people killed in the strike had been identified.

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