Israeli strikes kill 15 Palestinians in Gaza school, nine in West Bank

At least 15 Palestinians were murdered by an Israeli airstrike on a school in Gaza City that was housing displaced persons on Saturday, hours after two raids in the occupied West Bank killed nine fighters, including a local Hamas commander, according to Hamas.

Targeting a convoy of fighters it claimed was en route to launch an attack, the Israeli military said the first of two West Bank airstrikes struck a car in a town close to Tulkarm.

According to a statement from Hamas, one of the dead was a commander of the organization’s Tulkarm brigades; the other four individuals were identified as militants for Islamic Jihad, the organization’s affiliate.

A second bombing in the region, which struck another group of fighters, occurred hours later.