Israel-Gaza war live: eight reported killed at Gaza school shelter as Israel says it hit Hamas command centre

Wafa news agency says the dead were in refugee tents in Jabalia, northern Gaza, while Israeli army says militants were embedded in the compound

Hello and welcome to the Guardian’s live coverage of the Israel-Gaza war and the wider crisis in the Middle East.

At least 13 Palestinians were killed and 15 wounded in Israeli strikes on a school sheltering refugees and a residential building in Gaza, the Palestinian Authority’s official news agency reported early on Saturday.

Israeli forces battled Hamas-led militants in the Zeitoun suburb of Gaza City, where residents said tanks have been operating for more than a week, as well as in eastern neighbourhoods of Khan Younis and in Rafah, near the border with Egypt, where residents said Israeli forces blew up several houses.

Residents of Khan Younis and displaced families from Rafah continued to crowd medical facilities, bringing their children to be vaccinated against polio. The UN agency for Palestinian refugees said at least 160,000 children received the drops on Thursday in southern areas of Gaza, where medical staffers began the second stage in the huge immunisation campaign.

The White House said it was “deeply disturbed” by the death of an American woman who, according to Palestinian officials and witnesses, was shot in the head by Israeli troops during a protest against Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank. The White House also called for Israel to investigate her killing, which has caused strong reactions across the international community. The US state department confirmed the death of Ayşenur Ezgi Eygi, 26, a US-Turkey dual national who was a volunteer peace activist with the anti-occupation International Solidarity Movement (ISM).

Israeli forces withdrew from the occupied West Bank city of Jenin, the Palestinian news agency Wafa reported, after a 10-day raid in which 21 people were killed, according to the Palestinian health ministry. A Reuters witness said the Israeli forces left behind extensive damage to infrastructure. In a statement on Facebook, the Palestinian foreign ministry accused Israel of transferring to the occupied West Bank its brutal destruction in Gaza.

The UN said the humanitarian situation in Gaza was “beyond catastrophic”, with more than a million Palestinians not receiving any food rations in August and a 35% drop in people getting daily cooked meals. Continue reading...