GAZA STRIP, Palestinian Territories: The health ministry in the Gaza Strip said an Israeli strike hit a school housing a field hospital on Saturday, killing at least 30 people and wounding more than 100.

The Israeli military said it carried out a strike on the school targeting Hamas operating from there.

"A short while ago, the targeting of Khadija school, which had a field medical unit inside it, in the Deir el-Balah area, resulted in 30 martyrs and more than 100 wounded," the health ministry said in a statement.

Gaza's civil defence agency said that the school was housing about 4,000 displaced people who had taken refuge there.

The Israeli military, in a statement, said that the strike was carried out following "precise... intelligence of Hamas compound and control centre inside the Khadija school".

"In parallel, Hamas developed and stored large quantities of weapons inside the compound."

The field hospital located inside the school belonged to the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir el-Balah, according to hospital director Khalil al-Daqran.

 -AFP