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An attack on a house in central Gaza killed at least 13 people, according to Gaza's civil defence agency
At least 28 people, including children, have died in a wave of Israeli military strikes throughout the Gaza Strip, according to Gaza's civil defence agency.
A school sheltering displaced families was among the facilities struck, killing eight people including four children over the weekend, the agency said.
It comes as the UN issues a plea for Israel to cease its attacks in the vicinity of a hospital in Gaza's north.
The Israeli military claimed a Hamas command centre was inside the compound of the Musa bin Nusair school in Gaza City, and has not commented on reports of attacks by the hospital.
"Hamas systematically violates international law," the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said on social media, adding that Israel's response would be to "act with force and determination against the terrorist organizations".
Gaza's civil defence agency spokesperson Mahmoud Bassal told the AFP news agency that the school had been repurposed as a shelter for Palestinians displaced by the war.
One displaced man who had been staying at the school, Abu, told BBC Arabic that the attack came while he was asleep.
"We were sleeping peacefully, then suddenly we woke up to the sound of a very powerful explosion," he said.
Another man Mahmoud said he was asleep in a tent in the schoolyard when the attack took place.
"Stones and shrapnel were flying, the school's walls fell on our heads," he told BBC Arabic.
On Sunday, Pope Francis condemned the Israeli attacks on Gaza for a second day in a row.
He expressed pain thinking "of such cruelty, to the machine-gunning of children, to the bombing of schools and hospitals".
The director of the Kamal Adwan hospital, Dr Hussam Abu Safiya, said its generators had been hit and claimed the Israeli army was targeting the fuel tank.
The head of the World Health Organization (WHO), Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, issued a plea to the IDF to cease attacks in the vicinity of the hospital.
Saturday night's reports of "bombardment near Kamal Adwan Hospital and order to evacuate the hospital are deeply worrisome," he said in a statement on social media.
"We call for an immediate ceasefire in the vicinity of the hospital and to protect the patients and health workers."
The hospital's director also released a statement that said Israeli forces were treating the hospital "as if we were a military installation".
"Anyone who steps outside the hospital is at risk of being targeted," Dr Hussam Abu Safiya said.
He added that relocating the operations of the hospital would jeopardise the patients, and called for health staff "be allowed to operate without the threat of evacuation".
Israel has not commented on the reports of an evacuation order.
More than 45,000 Palestinians have been killed during the 14-month war between Israel and Hamas, according to figures from Gaza's Hamas-run health ministry.
The war began when Hamas-led gunmen carried out an unprecedented attack on southern Israel on 7 October 2023, during which about 1,200 people were killed and 251 others were taken hostage.
Watch: Homeland Security Secretary says CEO murder rhetoric 'extraordinarily alarming'
The rhetoric on social media following the murder of healthcare CEO Brian Thompson in New York earlier this month has been "extraordinarily alarming", US Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas says.
"It speaks of what is really bubbling here in this country, and unfortunately we see that manifested in violence, the domestic violent extremism that exists," he told CBS's Face the Nation on Sunday.
Some on social media have celebrated Luigi Mangione, the man accused of shooting dead Mr Thompson, and shared anger at America's private health insurers.
Mayorkas said he was "alarmed by the heroism that is being attributed to an alleged murderer of a father of two children on the streets in New York".
Mr Thompson, the 50-year-old CEO of the largest US health insurer UnitedHealthcare, was gunned down outside a Manhattan hotel early on 4 December triggering a massive manhunt for the killer.
Mr Mangione, 26, was arrested days later in Pennsylvania and flown to New York where he is facing both federal and state charges, including first-degree murder in furtherance of terrorism.
Investigators accuse him of carrying out a targeted killing, pointing to evidence that suggests a long-held animosity towards the US healthcare industry. On social media, support for Mr Mangione has often been accompanied by grievances and complaints with the health insurance sector.
"We have been concerned about the rhetoric on social media for some time," Mayorkas said on Sunday. "We've seen narratives of hate. We've seen narratives of anti-government sentiment. We've seen personal grievances in the language of violence."
Mayorkas, whose homeland security department is in part responsible for protecting Americans from domestic terrorism, said his department sees a "wide range of narratives" that "drive some individuals to violence."
"It's something that we're very concerned about," he said. "That is a heightened threat environment."
But the 65-year-old, whose time at the helm of the department will end next month, stressed that Mr Thompson's killing was "the actions of an individual [and] not reflective of the American public".
Watch: Mangione's extradition to New York explained in 73 seconds
Mr Mangione will remain behind bars in New York as his lawyers said last week that they would not present an application for bail. He is in federal custody at the Metropolitan Detention Center Brooklyn, the same facility where Sean 'Diddy' Combs is being held.
He will likely be assigned a roommate and have daily visits from medical and psychological services, law enforcement sources told the BBC's US partner CBS.
While New York does not have the death penalty, he faces four federal charges, including murder and stalking, which could make him eligible for the punishment. He also faces multiple state charges.
He is expected to be arraigned on those state charges in New York on Monday. Mr Mangione faces 11 counts, including murder in the first degree and murder as a crime of terrorism.
President-elect Donald J. Trump repeated false claims about immigration and the border, slammed diversity initiatives and discussed the Panama Canal in the 90-minute address.
An attack on a house in central Gaza killed at least 13 people, according to Gaza's civil defence agency
At least 28 people, including children, have died in a wave of Israeli military strikes throughout the Gaza Strip, according to Gaza's civil defence agency.
A school sheltering displaced families was among the facilities struck, killing eight people including four children over the weekend, the agency said.
It comes as the UN issues a plea for Israel to cease its attacks in the vicinity of a hospital in Gaza's north.
The Israeli military claimed a Hamas command centre was inside the compound of the Musa bin Nusair school in Gaza City, and has not commented on reports of attacks by the hospital.
"Hamas systematically violates international law," the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said on social media, adding that Israel's response would be to "act with force and determination against the terrorist organizations".
Gaza's civil defence agency spokesperson Mahmoud Bassal told the AFP news agency that the school had been repurposed as a shelter for Palestinians displaced by the war.
One displaced man who had been staying at the school, Abu, told BBC Arabic that the attack came while he was asleep.
"We were sleeping peacefully, then suddenly we woke up to the sound of a very powerful explosion," he said.
Another man Mahmoud said he was asleep in a tent in the schoolyard when the attack took place.
"Stones and shrapnel were flying, the school's walls fell on our heads," he told BBC Arabic.
On Sunday, Pope Francis condemned the Israeli attacks on Gaza for a second day in a row.
He expressed pain thinking "of such cruelty, to the machine-gunning of children, to the bombing of schools and hospitals".
The director of the Kamal Adwan hospital, Dr Hussam Abu Safiya, said its generators had been hit and claimed the Israeli army was targeting the fuel tank.
The head of the World Health Organization (WHO), Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, issued a plea to the IDF to cease attacks in the vicinity of the hospital.
Saturday night's reports of "bombardment near Kamal Adwan Hospital and order to evacuate the hospital are deeply worrisome," he said in a statement on social media.
"We call for an immediate ceasefire in the vicinity of the hospital and to protect the patients and health workers."
The hospital's director also released a statement that said Israeli forces were treating the hospital "as if we were a military installation".
"Anyone who steps outside the hospital is at risk of being targeted," Dr Hussam Abu Safiya said.
He added that relocating the operations of the hospital would jeopardise the patients, and called for health staff "be allowed to operate without the threat of evacuation".
Israel has not commented on the reports of an evacuation order.
More than 45,000 Palestinians have been killed during the 14-month war between Israel and Hamas, according to figures from Gaza's Hamas-run health ministry.
The war began when Hamas-led gunmen carried out an unprecedented attack on southern Israel on 7 October 2023, during which about 1,200 people were killed and 251 others were taken hostage.
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