Officials in Gaza said at least 11 people were killed Sunday in a shelling by the Israeli air force on Palestinian police stationed at a school where dozens of families displaced by the war in the Hamas-ruled enclave had also taken refuge.

“Israeli shelling at the Safad school, which housed refugees in Gaza City, killed 11 people, including a woman and a little girl, and wounded dozens of others,” civil protection spokesman Mahmoud Basal told AFP.

The bombing was aimed at, according to a medical source in Gaza, “a police facility.”

For its part, the Israeli army announced that it targeted “Hamas terrorists, who were operating at a control center in the area where the Safad school was previously located.”

The war, which has entered its 332nd day, was sparked by an unprecedented incursion by Hamas’ military arm into southern Israel on October 7, 2023, which killed 1,205 people, mostly civilians, according to a count AFP based on official Israeli data.

Since then, the Israeli armed forces have been relentlessly bombarding the Gaza Strip, from the air, from the sea and from the land.

Their retaliatory operations have killed at least 40,738 people, according to Hamas’ health ministry, have caused a humanitarian and health disaster, and displaced almost the entire population of 2.4 million in the Palestinian enclave.

According to the UN, the majority of victims were women and children.