An Israeli airstrike on a school building in central Gaza has killed at least 17 people, according to a local hospital. Al-Awda hospital told AFP and Reuters that the strike on Thursday hit the Al-Shuhada school in the Nuseirat refugee camp.

An Israeli airstrike on a school sheltering displaced people in the central Gaza Strip killed at least 17 civilians on Thursday, Palestinian medical officials reported on the day U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said ceasefire talks between Israel and Hamas would resume.

The Gaza civil defense agency said Israel struck a school building sheltering displaced Palestinians on Sunday, killing at least nine people.

An Israeli airstrike on a school housing displaced people in central Gaza has killed at least 17 people, including a number of children, according to Palestinian medical officials. At least 42 people were also injured in the attack at the Nuseirat camp, according to the Awda Hospital, which received the casualties.

CAIRO, Oct 24 (Reuters) - At least 17 Palestinians, including children, were killed on Thursday in an Israeli strike on a school in Nuseirat camp in the central part of the Gaza Strip, where people displaced by the fighting were sheltering, Nuseirat's Al-Awda hospital said.

The strike came as Blinken said Israel had accomplished its objective of “effectively dismantling” Hamas and that cease-fire negotiations would resume in the coming days.

Rescuers in central Gaza said an Israeli strike on Thursday killed at least 17 people at a school-turned-shelter, where the Israeli military said it had targeted Hamas militants.In recent months, Israeli forces have struck several schools-turned-shelters across Gaza,

Palestinian officials say an Israeli strike has killed 20 people in northern Gaza.