An Israeli air strike earlier today on a house in the Gaza Strip town of Deir el-Balah killed a pregnant woman, three young children and two male relatives, emergency services said.
They named the dead as Rafat Aloah, 32, three of his children, his brother Mohammed 21 and the woman, Nabilah Aloah. The strike came amid hectic efforts for an extension to the tenuous ceasefire that had halted Israeli strikes against Gazans.
