Israel says strike on Gaza school targets "dozens of terrorists," but children reportedly among those killed

More than a dozen Palestinians, including children, were killed Thursday in an Israeli airstrike on a school in Jabalia, in the northern Gaza Strip, that was sheltering displaced people, the health ministry in Hamas-run Gaza said. The Israel Defense Forces said in a statement that it had struck "a compound that previously served as the 'Abu Hassan' School," where it said "dozens of terrorists from the Hamas and Islamic Jihad organizations were present."

The health ministry said at least 15 people were killed, but it did not say how many could have been militants.

The IDF published a list of a dozen names of purported terrorists it said were among those using the compound as a command and control center. It said the men "involved in rocket attacks against Israeli territory, as well as in planning and committing terrorist attacks against IDF troops and the State of Israel in recent days" were targeted in an intelligence-based "precise strike."