At least 16 people have been killed in an air strike on a school in the Gaza Strip, Palestinian officials have said.
Dozens more have been injured in the attack on the building which was sheltering thousands of displaced people at Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza, according to the Hamas-run health ministry.
Video from the scene shows adults and children screaming in a smoke-filled street covered in dust and rubble, as they run to help the wounded.
Eyewitnesses told the BBC that the attack targeted the upper floors of the school, which is located near a busy market. The BBC understands that up to 7,000 people were using the building as shelter.
Many schools and other UN facilities have been used as shelters by the 1.7 million people who have fled their homes during the war, which has lasted almost eight months.
A previous attack in June on another packed UN-run school in Nuseirat killed at least 35 people.
Local journalists told the BBC at the time that a warplane fired two missiles at classrooms on the top floor of the school.
At least 38,098 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza as a result of Israel’s offensive, according to the territory’s Hamas-run health ministry.
Rawr
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