Israel blows up Gaza’s only power station

Israel knocked out Gaza’s only power plant and pounded dozens of other high-profile targets yesterday, while Egyptian mediators prepared a revised proposal for halting its war with Islamist guerrillas.

Israel’s Channel Two TV said progress was being made on such a deal in Cairo, where a Palestinian delegation was expected, although the station retracted an earlier report that a truce had already been provisionally agreed.

Last night, people in the Jebaliya refugee camp in northern Gaza reported intense tank shelling. Ten members of an extended family were killed and 50 other people wounded in the area, Palestinian health officials said. Two brothers driving in a car with markings of a UN aid agency were killed by shrapnel, an area resident said.