Israel said it targeted Hamas fighters inside the hospital compound, where displaced people were living in tents. A separate strike killed several people at a Gazan school turned shelter.

The Israeli military said it was targeting a Hamas command center. The site was filled with tents erected by families displaced by fighting in the enclave.

Al-Shifa, Gaza's largest hospital, which once had 800 beds, weathered a nearly two-week raid in March, in what Israeli military officials at the time called one of the "single-largest operations in the war". WHO workers, who gained access to the facility in early April after the raid, called the hospital "an empty shell" of itself.