Israeli warplanes bombed an Islamic university linked to the Palestinian movement Hamas in the Gaza Strip today, an official of the institution said.

“Heavy airstrikes completely destroyed some buildings of the Islamic university,” said Ahmed Orabi, an official of the institution.

“No one can enter because of the fires, stones and debris that are scattered on the streets around the university,” he added. Thick clouds of dust filled the sky when the buildings collapsed, he noted.

A little earlier, the Hamas government had announced that at least 30 people were killed and hundreds were injured by the hundreds of airstrikes launched by Israel during the past night against Gaza.

The raids hit dozens of residential buildings, factories, mosques and shops, according to Salama Marouf, head of the Hamas government’s press office.

For its part, the Israeli army pointed out that during the night it hit several Hamas positions, explaining that fighter jets destroyed “advanced tracking systems” of the Palestinian movement.

Twenty-four Hamas targets were hit in the Beit Hanun area of ​​the Gaza Strip, mainly two bank branches used by the Islamist Palestinian movement to “finance terrorism,” according to the military.

A weapons depot and an administrative center of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad group were also hit by the shelling, the same source added.