Rescuers in Gaza said Israel conducted a deadly air strike Thursday on a school housing families displaced by the war, though the Israeli military said it was a Hamas command centre. The Israeli army said the strike targeted Palestinian militants operating from a command and control centre "embedded inside a compound that previously served as the (Rafida) School".

Palestinian officials say an Israeli strike on a mosque in the Gaza Strip has killed at least 19 people. Israel meanwhile intensified its bombardment of northern Gaza and southern Beirut on Sunday in its widening war on Iran-allied militant groups across the region.

As the Israeli military campaign in Gaza intensifies, the humanitarian crisis in the enclave continues to deepen. Over the past 24 hours, at least 45 Palestinians were reported killed in Israeli airstrikes targeting the Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza,