GAZA CITY, Palestinian Territories: Israeli warplanes struck Gaza, killing the wife and child of Hamas’s top military chief, the Islamist movement said on Wednesday after truce talks in Cairo collapsed in a storm of violence.

It was not immediately clear whether Mohamed Deif himself, who has topped Israel’s most wanted list for decades, was killed or wounded in the strike which hit a house in Gaza City late on Tuesday.

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