Sunday 03 August 2014 16.14 The United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has described a deadly attack on a UN school as a "moral outrage and a criminal act".
Mr Ban called for those responsible for the "gross violation of international humanitarian law" to be held accountable.
In a statement, Mr Ban strongly condemned the shelling of the school in Rafah in southern Gaza that killed at least 10 civilians.
The school was sheltering 3,000 displaced persons and Mr Ban said the "Israel Defense Forces have been repeatedly informed of the location of these sites."
The Israeli military declined immediate comment on the attack, the second to hit a school in less than a week.
A missile launched by an aircraft struck the entrance to the school in the town of Rafah, the witnesses and medics said.
Hundreds of Palestinians in the area, where the Israeli military has been battling militants, had been sheltering in the facility.
A spokesman for the UN agency for Palestinian refugees Chris Gunness, said the school had been housing thousands of internally displaced people.
These were people who had been forced to flee their homes by the ongoing violence in Gaza.
Last Wednesday, at least 15 Palestinians who sought refuge in a UN-run school in Jabalya refugee camp were killed during fighting.
The UN said it appeared that Israeli artillery had hit the building.
The Israeli military said gunmen had fired mortar bombs from near the school and it shot back in response.
Earlier today, Israeli shelling killed at least 30 people in Gaza, a day after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed to keep up pressure on Hamas after the army completes its core mission of destroying a tunnel network that extends into Israel.
In Cairo, efforts to find a new truce were due to resume today.
A delegation from Palestinian militant groups Hamas and Islamic Jihad arrived in the Egyptian capital.
A quick breakthrough seemed unlikely in the absence of Israeli representatives.
After accusing Hamas of breaching a US and UN brokered ceasefire on Friday, Israel said it would not send envoys as scheduled.
In Gaza, Israel intensified attacks in the area of Rafah along the border with Egypt, where 23-year-old officer Hadar Goldin was feared captured.
The incident took place on Friday shortly after what was to have been a 72-hour truce began.
The military later said Lt Goldin, who was dragged by militants into a tunnel after two of his comrades were killed by a suicide bomber, had also died in action.
A military spokesman Lieutenant-Colonel Peter Lerner said: "The findings on the ground, the items that we found led us to the conclusion that he was killed in the initial attack."
Lt Col Lerner said ground forces were being redeployed in Gaza.
He gave no details of their new positions, and added that residents from a number of evacuated Palestinian neighbourhoods had been told by the military they could return.
More than 30 tunnels and dozens of access shafts have been unearthed and were being blown up.
Israel began its air and naval offensive against Gaza on 8 July following a surge of cross-border rocket salvoes by Hamas and other guerrillas, later escalating the operation into ground incursions.
The fighting today pushed the Gaza death toll given by Palestinian officials to 1,726, most of them civilians.
Israel says 64 soldiers have died in combat, while Palestinian rockets have also killed three civilians in Israel.
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