DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Gaza’s health ministry said an Israeli strike on a five-story building housing displaced Palestinians in northern Gaza killed at least 34 people early Tuesday, more than half among them women and children.

The ministry’s emergency service said 20 others were wounded in the strike in the northern town of Beit Lahiya, near the border with Israel.

There was no immediate comment from the Israeli military.

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