GAZA CITY: The Israeli army said it targeted Hamas militants in a strike on a UN building in Jabaliya refugee camp on Wednesday that Gaza’s civil defence agency said killed 19 people, nine of them children.
The army said in a statement that it struck the militants “inside a command and control centre that was being used for coordinating terrorist activity”. It separately confirmed to AFP the building housed a UN clinic.
The UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) said in a statement that the strike hit “two rooms on the first floor of an UNRWA destroyed health centre” which had been used as a shelter for 160 displaced families.