Forty-eight people were killed, including at least seven children, in Israeli airstrikes on school compounds sheltering thousands of displaced Palestinians in Gaza, hospital officials said.

The Israeli army killed at least 16 Palestinians in new airstrikes Thursday in the Gaza Strip, one day after it killed 100 Palestinians in a 24-hour period, according to medics. Six victims were killed in three attacks targeting a group of civilians in Deir al-Balah and the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza, said a medical source.

The sources added that a girl was killed and four others were wounded in Israeli artillery shelling of the tents of displaced persons west of Khan Yunis, south of the Gaza Strip. A child was also wounded by Israeli gunfire in the foot near the Sumoud camp in Al-Mawasi.