The last 24 hours have been really overwhelming for the people of Gaza due to the ongoing bombardment, Al Jazeera’s Tareq Abu Azzoum reports from Deir el-Balah, central Gaza.

We have been observing a remarkable rise in the number of airstrikes targeting residential buildings in central Gaza and Khan Younis in the south.

The civil defence crew confirmed there is a clear intensification of targeting of homes. In the last 24 hours, at least eight houses were destroyed and at least 53 Palestinians were killed across Gaza.

In Rafah city, a residential building was destroyed by Israeli attacks. In the attack, a mother and her five children were killed. So we can see the systematic destruction of homes is still ongoing.