<div><span style="font-size: 1rem;">Palestinians reported a deadly Israeli strike on a Gaza City area school serving as a shelter today, as US secretary of state Antony Blinken was due to hear Arab demands for a ceasefire in a meeting in Jordan.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>Witnesses said an Israeli strike hit Al-Fakhoura school in Jabalia refugee camp, killing and wounding many of the evacuees who had taken shelter there.</div><div><br></div><div>At least 15 people died and dozens more were wounded, Mohammad Abu Selmeyah, the head of al-Shifa Hospital, said of the school incident.</div><div><br></div><div>Reuters pictures of the aftermath showed broken furniture and other belongings lying on the ground, patches of blood and people crying.</div><div><br></div><div>“People were preparing breakfast, when suddenly bombing started. I found my two girls, one of them was martyred and her head was hit, the second was wounded in her leg … the other girl as well was wounded with shrapnel,” one man said in video footage obtained by Reuters.</div><div><br></div><div>The ministry of health in Gaza said another Israeli missile strike killed two women at the door of the Nasser Children Hospital.</div><div><br></div><div>Several more people were injured, it said.</div><div><br></div><div>The Israeli military had no immediate comment on either reported strike and Reuters was not immediately able to verify any more details.</div><div><br></div><div>Hours earlier, Gaza health officials had said 15 people were killed in an Israeli air strike on an ambulance yesterday evening that was part of a convoy carrying injured Palestinians at Gaza’s biggest hospital, al-Shifa.</div><div><br></div><div>Israel’s military said they had identified and hit an ambulance “being used by a Hamas terrorist cell” and that a number of Hamas fighters were killed.</div><div><br></div><div>The Palestinian health ministry challenged Israel to provide proof that the ambulance was carrying Hamas fighters.</div><div><br></div><div>Israel said it intended to release additional information. According to Reuters reports&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>