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Israel hit a Gaza school on Thursday with what it described as a targeted airstrike on up to 30 Hamas fighters inside..
A Hamas official said 40 people, including women and children, were killed as they were taking shelter in the UN site...
Video footage showed Palestinians hauling away bodies after the attack, which took place at a sensitive moment in mediated talks on a ceasefire that would involve releasing hostages held by Hamas and some of the Palestinians held in Israeli jails...
Ismail Al-Thawabta, the director of the Hamas-run government media office, rejected Israels assertion that the UN school in Nuseirat, in central Gaza, had hidden a Hamas command post...
Meanwhile, the Israeli military has warned the government its policy of cutting off funds to the Palestinian Authority could push the occupied West Bank into a third intifada, public broadcaster Kan Radio reported on Thursday...
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