At least 30 Palestinians were killed in an Israeli airstrike on a school housing displaced people in Gaza on Saturday, Palestinian health officials said, an attack that Israel said targeted militants who were using the compound. Israel's military said it had targeted militants operating there and that it had taken steps to reduce the risk to civilians. The people sheltering in Khadija school are all wounded people, they are innocent and this should not happen to them," she said. Israel says Hamas uses Gaza's civilians as human shields by operating within densely populated areas, humanitarian zones, schools and hospitals, which Hamas denies. "Hamas terrorists used the (school) compound as a hiding place to direct and plan numerous attacks against IDF troops and the State of Israel.

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Persons: Israel, Um Hasan Ali, Ibtihal Ahmed Organizations: Hamas, Aqsa, Reuters Locations: Israel, Nuseirat, Gaza, Deir Al, Al, Egypt