CAIRO — An Israeli air strike hit two schools in Gaza City on Aug 4, killing at least 25 people, the Palestinian official news agency said, while the Israeli military said it struck a Hamas military compound embedded in the schools.

Earlier in the day, an Israeli air strike hit a tent camp inside a hospital in central Gaza. Gaza health officials said at least 44 Palestinians were killed on Aug 4, the day after a round of talks in Cairo on a possible ceasefire ended without a result.

Footage circulated on Palestinian media showed bodies scattered inside the yard of one of two blast-wrecked schools as residents rushed to carry casualties, including children, and loaded them into ambulance vehicles that took them to nearby hospitals.

The Palestinian official news agency and Hamas media said dozens were wounded in addition to the 25 fatalities in the schools of Hassan Salama and Al-Nasser, which housed displaced Palestinian families. They said the strike destroyed several structures inside the facilities.

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