Health officials have said at least 45 people were killed by an Israeli air strike on houses in Deir al-Balah in central Gaza.

“We have received 45 martyrs from the Israeli bombing on the houses of three families in Deir al-Balah in the past hour,” Dr Eyad Al-Jabri, head of the Shuhada Al-Aqsa Hospital in Deir al-Balah, has told Reuters.