GAZA CITY, Gaza (CNN) — An Israeli missile struck near a U.N. school in northern Gaza on Tuesday, killing several people, Palestinian security and medical sources told CNN.
There are conflicting reports about the details of the strike, which comes after a U.N.-operated school in Gaza City was directly hit by an Israeli airstrike on Monday night, according to United Nations Relief and Works Agency director John Ging.
Ging told CNN that he understood several tank shells landed outside the U.N.-operated school in Jabalya on Tuesday, killing 10 people outside the school and injuring three people inside.
The school was being used as a shelter for civilians fleeing the ongoing Israeli military operation in the Palestinian territory.
Palestinian sources said 44 were killed in the strike, and it was unclear if it was the result of an Israeli airstrike, tank shell, or another missile.
The Israeli military told CNN it is checking the reports.
UNRWA said an elementary school in Gaza City took a direct hit on Monday night from an Israeli airstrike, although the agency said it had told Israel that the school was being used as a shelter. That strike killed three
Palestinian men, all members of the same family, according to the U.N. Relief and Works Agency.
UNRWA said 400 Palestinians were staying in the Asma Elementary school at the time of the Monday night airstrike.
