Palestinians in the battered northern district of Shujayea are struggling to survive after Israeli forces hammered the Gaza City neighbourhood during a two-week assault, Al Jazeera reports.

Resident Fares Amer Mushtaha said: “As you can see, Shujayea has been reduced to dust. It has been wiped out. They bombed us without warning, they did not drop leaflets or call. Missiles just started falling on civilians — women, children and elderly people. The occupation army told us to go to western Gaza, then they invaded and targeted it with their missiles.”

Another resident, Nael Alsousi, said Israeli forces attacked Shujayea’s water supplies and “one can say there is no water at all”.

“Wells were completely destroyed and so was the municipal water network. Even the tanker trucks that used to carry fresh water can no longer enter the neighbourhood because of the destruction of the infrastructure and the roads,” Alsousi told Al Jazeera.