Israeli airstrike on Gaza school used for shelter kills at least 80

At least 80 people were killed in an Israeli airstrike early Saturday morning that hit a school being used as a shelter in Gaza City, local authorities said.

Israel said the school was being used as a command center for Hamas, a claim the militant group denied. The strike marks one of the deadliest since the onset of the war.

Fadel Naeem, the director of the al-Ahli hospital in the city, said his hospital had received 70 bodies from the strike and body parts from 10 other people killed, The Associated Press reported.