THE ISRAELI military killed at least 18 people, including children, in air strikes on central Gaza today — a day after it targeted a United Nations-run school sheltering displaced Palestinian families, health officials said today.

Israel fired on the Nuseirat and Maghazi refugee camps and Deir al-Balah and Zawaiyda towns. Four children and one woman were among those killed as well as the mayor of the Nuseirat municipality, according to hospital records.

Israel’s army said today that it was continuing operations in parts of central Gaza. It claimed that its troops had killed dozens of Hamas militants, located tunnel shafts and destroyed infrastructure in the area.