The past 24 hours in the northern parts of the Gaza Strip and Gaza City have been horrifying, Al Jazeera correspondent Hind Khoudary reports.

“Israeli forces began by targeting at least five houses in Beit Lahiya, where at least dozens of Palestinians remain under the rubble till this point. They also targeted a UN shelter school, where at least nine Palestinians were killed, among them three journalists and a nine-year-old child,” Khoudary reports.

“There is also a large number of people who are still trapped under the rubble and no one can reach the northern areas because of this siege on Beit Lahiya, Jabalia and Beit Hanoon,” she said.

“It’s still escalating, and people are trying to reach out, crying, feeling that they’ve been abandoned, asking for food, water and medicine,” she added.