More than 75,000 Gazans displaced as Israeli forces push into Khan Younis

In northern Gaza, an Israeli air strike on Friday killed at least 93 people at a religious school housing displaced Palestinians, according to civil defence rescuers, sparking international condemnation.
Israel said it targeted militants operating out of Gaza City’s Al-Tabieen school and mosque with “precise munitions”, declaring that “at least 19 Hamas and Islamic Jihad terrorists were eliminated”.
The death toll, which AFP could not independently verify, would be one of the largest from a single strike since the war began.
Mahmud Bassal, spokesman for the civil defence agency in Hamas-run Gaza, said on Sunday that identifying the victims could take at least two days as “we have many bodies torn into pieces” and “shredded or burnt by the bombs”.
The Gaza war began with Hamas’s Oct 7 attack on southern Israel which resulted in the deaths of 1,198 people, mostly civilians, according to an AFP tally based on official Israeli figures.
Militants also seized 251 people, 111 of whom are still held captive in Gaza, including 39 the military says are dead.
Israel’s retaliatory military offensive in Gaza has killed at least 39,790 people, according to the territory’s health ministry, which does not provide details on civilian and militant deaths.
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz told Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in a phone call on Sunday that “an end to the war in Gaza would be a decisive step towards a regional de-escalation”.
Hamas officials, some analysts and critics in Israel have said Netanyahu has sought to prolong the fighting for political gain.