Israeli air strikes kill 38 people in Gaza within 30 mins

At least 38 Palestinians were killed in a series of Israeli airstrikes across the Gaza Strip in just half an hour, according to Palestinian medics.

A spokesman for the Hamas-run civil defence agency said Israeli warplanes struck a school in eastern Gaza City; an abandoned fuel station sheltering displaced families in the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza; and a three-story residential building in Deir al-Balah in southern Gaza.

He added that rescue teams were facing major difficulties reaching the wounded due to a lack of equipment and the intense pace of the bombardment.

According to local activists in Gaza City, 10 people were killed when an Israeli airstrike hit classrooms at the Musa bin Nusayr School, where hundreds of displaced people were sheltering.

In central Gaza, 15 people were reported killed in a strike on tents at an abandoned fuel station in Nuseirat.

Meanwhile, local journalists said 13 Palestinians were killed in an airstrike on the Abu Samra family’s three-story home in central Deir al-Balah.

Separately, Israeli jets launched a "fire belt" of 10 airstrikes on the Shejaiya neighbourhood in eastern Gaza City.

(With inputs from BBC)