Israel said it struck an arms dump in Gaza on Wednesday, hours after the deadliest night of bombing since the start of a US-brokered truce, warning it would continue to operate to take out perceived threats.

The military announced it had carried out a precision strike on a site in the Beit Lahia area of northern Gaza where it said weapons were being stockpiled for “an imminent terror attack”.

Israeli troops, it said, would remain deployed in “accordance with the ceasefire agreement and will continue to operate to remove any immediate threat”.

Hamas-run Gaza’s civil defence agency told AFP that one Palestinian was killed in the latest strike — and that 104 — including 46 children and 24 women — had died in the previous night’s bombardment.

The Israeli military launched a wave of bombing

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