Israel also blocked the import of all food, medicine and fuel for 2 1/2 months before letting a trickle of aid enter last week, after experts’ warnings of famine and pressure from some of Israel’s top allies.

Two more children were missing, while her husband and one other child were injured in the strike on Friday, the officials said. Israel said it was checking if it had harmed “uninvolved civilians.”

A pediatrician and mother of 10 is mourning the deaths of nine of her young children after an Israeli airstrike hit their home in the war-torn Gaza Strip.