Live blog: Gaza under attack - update 21st July 2014

Reports are circulating on social media that al-Qassam Brigades have announced an attack on an elite Israeli army unit that killed 10 soldiers.

According to reports, including one from the Gazan government official Abu ya-Mennazly, the soldiers were killed in an ambush east of Shejaiya district.

This news is as yet unverified, and Israeli officials have yet to comment on the allegations.