Over 100 Killed in Gaza School Airstrike

More than 100 Palestinians were killed and dozens wounded in an Israeli strike on a Gaza school sheltering displaced people, the Hamas-run Gaza government said, an air strike the Israeli military said had targeted a Hamas command center.

The strikes hit when people sheltering at the school were performing dawn prayers, leading to many casualties, the Hamas media office said in a statement. Medics had not yet been able to reach all the bodies, it said.

There was no immediate information from Gaza health authorities.

Videos showed Palestinians clearing debris and moving dead bodies from the strike scene.

The Israeli military said in a statement that its air force targeted a command and control center where Hamas fighters were hiding.

The military said it had taken steps to reduce the risk of harming civilians, "including the use of precise munitions, aerial surveillance, and intelligence information." It did not immediately comment on the casualty reports from Gaza.

Hamas said the strike was a horrific crime and a serious escalation. Israel says the militant group embeds among Gaza's civilians, operating from within schools, hospitals and designated humanitarian zones - which Hamas denies.

Meanwhile thousands of protesters flooded the streets in Amman, Jordan, waving Palestinian flags and displaying placards with images of the late Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh, who was assassinated in Tehran on July 31.

Demonstrators raised placards and chanted, demanding attention to the ongoing conflict affecting Gaza.

Israel says it has killed or incapacitated more than 14,000 Hamas fighters, roughly half the number it estimated it faced at the start of the war, and broke the group's organized fighting structure.