Gaza’s civil defence agency said an Israeli air strike targeting a school-turned-shelter for displaced Palestinians has killed at least three people, while the military reported it struck a Hamas command centre, AFP reports.

“Three martyrs and more than 20 wounded people were retrieved after an Israeli warplane fired two missiles at a prayer room and a classroom at the Amr Ibn al-Aas School, where refugees were sheltering in the Sheikh Radwan neighbourhood in northern Gaza City,” Mahmud Bassal, spokesman for the civil defence agency, told AFP.

The Israeli military said it conducted a “precise strike” at the school. The strike targeted “terrorists who were operating inside a Hamas command and control centre… embedded inside a compound that previously served as Amr Ibn al-Aas school,” the military said in a statement.