Israeli strikes kill at least 17 Palestinians overnight in Gaza

Israeli strikes killed at least 17 Palestinians overnight in Gaza, eight of whom were at a school sheltering displaced families. 

Palestinian medics said eight people, including children, were killed in the Musa Bin Nusayr School that sheltered displaced families in Gaza City.

Elsewhere in Gaza City, four Palestinians were killed when an Israeli air strike hit a car.

At least five other Palestinians were killed in southern Gaza in two separate air strikes in Rafah and Khan Younis.

In the northern town of Beit Lahiya, Hussam Abu Safiya, the director of Kamal Adwan Hospital, said the Israeli army ordered staff to evacuate the facility and move patients to another hospital.

Abu Safiya said it was "next to impossible" because staff did not have ambulances to move patients.

Israeli forces have been widely accused of ethnically cleansing Palestinians from Beit Lahiya, Beit Hanoun, Jabalia and other parts of northern Gaza over the past three months.