The Israeli army announced, on Thursday, that three soldiers were killed during clashes in the northern Gaza Strip, as Israel has again intensified its bombing of the Palestinian Strip in recent days.

After shifting the center of gravity of its military operations towards Lebanon in mid-September with an intense aerial bombardment campaign followed by a “limited” ground attack against Hezbollah, Israel has once again intensified its bombing of the Palestinian Strip in recent days.

On Thursday, an Israeli raid on the Gaza Strip resulted in the killing of 28 people in a school housing displaced families, according to the Palestinian Red Crescent, while the army announced that it had targeted a command center for the Hamas movement.

The Israeli army said that it carried out an “accurate” air strike on “terrorists (...) in a command center (...) in buildings that were previously used” as a school.

The war broke out in the Gaza Strip following an unprecedented attack by Hamas on southern Israel on October 7.

The Israeli military response turned entire areas of the small and besieged Gaza Strip into rubble, forced the vast majority of the population of 2.4 million people to flee more than once, and caused a humanitarian catastrophe.

At least 42,065 Palestinians have been killed since the start of the Israeli offensive in Gaza, most of them women and children, according to the latest data from the Hamas-run Ministry of Health, which the United Nations considers reliable.

On the Israeli side, the Hamas attack led to the death of 1,206 people, the majority of them civilians, according to an Agence France-Presse count based on official Israeli figures that include hostages who died or were killed in captivity in Gaza.