DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Hospital officials say Israeli airstrikes across Gaza have killed at least 34 people, including 19 women and children. The strikes hit a U.N. school sheltering displaced Palestinian families as well as two homes. The head of the U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees says six staffers were among the dead. The Israeli military says it targeted the school in central Gaza because Hamas militants were planning attacks from there. The claim could not be independently confirmed. Israel has also carried out new raids in the occupied West Bank, saying it was targeting militant groups. The war in Gaza is now into its 11th month, with tens of thousands of people dead.
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