Gazans described a “real life horror movie” in the Gaza Strip’s north as Israeli air strikes continued across the Palestinian territory, a day after a ceasefire began in neighbouring Lebanon.

“We are living in a real-life horror movie, the situation is indescribable, the Israeli bombing doesn’t stop from the air or on the ground,” said Umm Ahmad Lubbad, 52, from Beit Lahia.

She told AFP by phone that she was scared to leave her house, but that she would go if the Israeli army asked people to evacuate their homes.

“We don’t know where we will go exactly,” she added.

Abu Muhammad Al-Madhoun, displaced from Jabalia camp to the central Gaza Strip, said the situation was “catastrophic”.

“It is getting worse every day,” he said, adding: “The bombing does not stop.”

Hossam Abu Safiyeh, director of the Kamal Adwan Hospital in the north, described the situation there as a “tragic and very difficult”.

“The occupation (Israel) does not allow anything to be brought into the area. The targeting has not stopped around the hospital,” he said.