More than a dozen people were killed in Israeli strikes on two schools housing displaced people in Gaza City on Thursday, Palestinian officials said, the latest in a series of attacks on education centers Israel says are being used by Hamas to plan its operations.

       At least 16 people died and 37 were wounded when missiles slammed into the Abdul Fattah Hamoud and al-Zahra schools nearly simultaneously, according to the Gaza civil defense force. The schools are located less than a mile apart in the city’s eastern neighborhoods.