In Beit Lahiya, 65 people have been killed, 17 of them children below the age of 12, Al Jazeera’s Hani Mahmoud reports from Deir el-Balah, Gaza.

“Al-Awda Hospital, a facility in the northern part of the Strip, still somehow operational and offering medical care, is unable to accommodate the large number of injuries.

“More people are being pulled out of the rubble. They are in critical condition. They are severely bleeding or simply were crushed by the heavy weight of the large pieces of concrete that collapsed on their heads while they were sleeping,” Mahmoud reports.

“There are other people who actually have gone missing, as some people are talking about other members of their families who do not exist any more.

“They are simply pulverised by the intensity of the explosion because we’re talking about a building that at some point was standing five storeys now turned into a pile of rubble.”