The death toll from Israeli air strikes in the Gaza Strip on Wednesday has risen to 101, including 35 children, in the most serious test of the increasingly shaky US-brokered ceasefire. Mahmud Bassal, the Gaza civil defence agency spokesperson, told news agency AFP called it a "clear and flagrant violation of the ceasefire agreement", and described the situation in Gaza as "catastrophic and terrifying." "At least 101 fatalities were brought to hospitals, including 35 children and a number of women and elderly, as a result of Israeli air strikes in less than 12 hours," said Mahmud Bassal, spokesman for the agency, which operates as a rescue force under Hamas authority. Meanwhile, the Israeli military said that the ceasefire was back in effect after it completed a number of strikes in

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