Israeli strike on Gaza UN shelter kills at least27, local officials say | BBC News

An Israeli air strike. On UN school packed withhundreds of displaced people in central Gaza haskilled at least 27 people, local officials say.

The Israeli military said it carried out a strike on a UNschool that housed a "Hamas compound".

Local journalists told the BBC that an Israeli warplanefired two missiles at classrooms on the top floor of theschool in the Nuseirat refugee camp.

The Hamas media office has accused Israel ofcommitting a "horrific massacre".

In a statement, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) saidjets had conducted a "precise strike on a Hamascompound embedded inside an Unrwa school in the area of Nuseirat".