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Egypt has accused Israel of deliberately hindering Gaza ceasefire talks after an air strike on a school that killed at least 90 people and injured dozens of others on Saturday morning, The National reports.

Israel's attacks on civilians showed “an unprecedented disregard for the provisions of international law and international humanitarian law”, Egypt's Foreign Ministry said in a statement issued after the attack on Al Tabaeen school in Gaza city, which was housing 2,400 displaced Palestinians.

“Egypt considers the continued commission of these large-scale crimes, and the deliberate killing of these huge numbers of unarmed civilians, whenever the efforts of mediators intensified to try to reach a formula for a ceasefire in the strip, is conclusive evidence of the absence of political will on the part of the Israeli side to end this fierce war,” the ministry said.

The air strike came amid a renewed push for the resumption of talks to end the war in Gaza. Leaders of the US, Qatar, and Egypt issued a call for Israel and the Palestinian group Hamas to return to ceasefire negotiations mediated by the three countries.