Israeli strike on Gaza UN school kills at least 35

GAZA, June 06 (BBC): An Israeli air strike on a UN school packed with hundreds of displaced Palestinians in central Gaza has reportedly killed at least 35 people.
Local journalists told the BBC that a warplane fired two missiles at classrooms on the top floor of the school in the urban Nuseirat refugee camp. Videos showed the destruction and a number of bodies.
Israel's military said it had "conducted a precise strike on a Hamas compound" in the school and killed many of the 20 to 30 fighters it believed were inside. Gaza's Hamas-run Government Media Office denied the claim and accused Israel of carrying out a "horrific massacre".
Dead and wounded people were rushed to the al-Aqsa Martyrs' Hospital, in the nearby town of Deir al-Balah which has been overwhelmed since the Israeli military began a new ground operation against Hamas in central Gaza this week.
The circumstances of the strike in Nuseirat are still unclear and the BBC is working to verify the information coming in.
Local journalists and residents said it took place in the early hours of Thursday at al-Sardi school, which is run by the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (Unrwa) and is located in a south-eastern Block 2 area of the densely-populated, decades-old camp.
The school was full with hundreds of displaced people who had fled the fighting elsewhere in Gaza, according to the residents. Videos shared on social media showed the destruction of several classrooms at the school, as well as bodies wrapped in white shrouds and blankets.
"Enough war! We have been displaced dozens of times. They killed our children while they were sleeping," a woman injured in the attack screamed in one video.
Residents initially said that more than 20 people were killed in the attack. Later, an official at al-Aqsa hospital told a freelance journalist working for the BBC that it had received 40 bodies from the school.