Eight Palestinians were killed on Sunday in an Israeli airstrike on a training college near Gaza City being used to distribute aid, Palestinian witnesses said, as Israeli tanks pushed further into the southern city of Rafah.

The strike hit part of a vocational college the U.N. Palestinian refugee agency the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) runs that is now providing aid to displaced families, the witnesses said.

¡°Some people were coming to receive coupons, and others had been displaced from their houses, and they were sheltering here,¡± said Mohammed Tafesh, one of the witnesses.