CAIRO/JERUSALEM - At least 30 Palestinians were killed in an Israeli strike on a school that had been housing displaced people in Gaza on July 27, Palestinian health officials said, while Israel's military said it had struck a Hamas command centre in the school complex.

Fifteen children and eight women were among those killed in the strike on the school in the central town of Deir Al-Balah, the Hamas-run government media office said.

The media office and the Gaza Health Ministry said more than 100 people were wounded.

The Israeli military said in a statement it had targeted a "Hamas command and control centre inside the Khadija school compound in central Gaza". The statement said the school was being used to launch attacks against troops and as a weapons cache and that it warned civilians before the strike.

At Al-Aqsa Hospital in Deir Al-Balah, ambulances raced wounded Palestinians into the medical facility. Some of the wounded also arrived on foot, with their clothes stained with blood.

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