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Nine Palestinians have been killed in an Israeli air strike on a police station in northern Gaza, health officials and first responders say.

On Tuesday night, 10 people were killed in an Israeli air strike on a school in the north-eastern Tuffah neighbourhood of Gaza City that was being used as a shelter for displaced families, according to the Hamas-run Civil Defence agency.

A security guard was killed and nine other people were injured in an air strike on a field hospital in Khan Younis, the hospital said.

The World Health Organization has said conditions at hospitals in Gaza are "beyond description", after a major facility was put out of service by an Israeli air strike.