Saturday's attack happened as negotiators prepared to meet international mediators to discuss a proposed cease-fire.
Israeli airstrikes hit a school being used by displaced people in central Gaza on Saturday, killing dozens of people, as the country's negotiators prepared to meet international mediators to discuss a proposed cease-fire.
Earlier, Israel's military ordered the evacuation of a part of a designated humanitarian zone in Gaza ahead of a planned strike on Khan Younis on Saturday. It's the second evacuation order issued in a week that has included striking part of the humanitarian zone, a 60-square-kilometer blanketed with tent camps that lack sanitation and medical facilities and have limited access to aid, United Nations and humanitarian groups say. Israel expanded the zone in May to take in people fleeing Rafah, where more than half of Gaza's population at the time had crowded.
"Referring to the orders as evacuation orders don't do any justice to what this means," said Juliette Touma, the agency's director of communications."These are forced displacement orders. What happens is when people have these orders, they have very little time to move."
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