The strike came just hours after US President Joe Biden’s national security adviser raised hopes about a ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas and that would end more than a year of war in the Strip.
ADVERTISEMENTAt least 33 Palestinians have been killed and dozens of others wounded in an Israeli air strike on central Gaza.
Photos from the scene of the blast circulated on social media showed a completely collapsed building with people walking through its mangled remains and smoke rising from the rubble.
Officials at two hospitals in Gaza, al-Awda Hospital in the north and al-Aqsa Hospital in the centre of the territory, said they had received a total of 25 bodies from the strike which hit a multi-storey residential building in the Nuseirat refugee camp.
Palestinian medics also reported that over 40 people, most of them children, were receiving treatment at both hospitals.
Al-Aqsa Hospital said that the Israeli attack also damaged several nearby houses.
There was no immediate comment from the Israeli military about the strike.
That strike came just hours after US President Joe Biden's national security adviser raised hopes about a ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas and that would end the war in the Strip.
Israel is trying to eliminate Hamas, which led the attack on southern Israel in October 2023 that sparked the war in Gaza.
The Israeli military says Hamas militants hide among Gaza's civilian population.
Israel's war against Hamas has killed over 44,800 Palestinians in Gaza, more than half of them women and children, according to the Gaza Health Ministry, which does not say how many were combatants.
The Israeli military says it has killed over 17,000 militants, without providing evidence.
The fighting has plunged Gaza into a severe humanitarian crisis, with experts warning of imminent famine.
Israel says it allows enough aid to enter Gaza and blames UN agencies for not distributing it or Hamas for stealing it.
The UN however says Israeli restrictions and the breakdown of law and order after Israel repeatedly targeted the Hamas-run police force, make it extremely difficult to operate in the territory.