Gaza’s civil defence agency has said Israeli forces killed at least 25 people today, including 12 in an Israeli strike on a school sheltering Palestinians displaced by the ongoing onslaught, according to AFP.

Civil defence official Mohammad al-Mughayyir told AFP there were “12 martyrs, the majority of them children and women, and a large number of injuries in an Israeli air strike on the Mustafa Hafez School, which shelters displaced persons, in the Al-Rimal neighbourhood”.

AFP footage showed young children wandering through the charred, bombed-out building, as piles of burnt debris smouldered. Groups of Palestinians picked through the rubble and damaged furniture that littered the floor.

Contacted by AFP, the Israeli military said it was looking into the report as well as another incident, in central Gaza, where Mughayyir said Israeli gunfire killed people seeking humanitarian aid.

The civil defence official said the gunfire killed six people and resulted in “a large number of injuries” among a group of Palestinians near an aid distribution site.