In the Sheikh Zayed neighbourhood of northern Gaza, residents were in shock a day after an Israeli air strike killed six people. The four apartments wrecked in the five-storey building were among 600 housing units left destroyed or damaged, according to the Ministry of Housing.
"I have never seen in my life more horrifying images than I saw yesterday. I saw dismembered bodies, burnt up bodies," said 60-year-old Ziyad Hammash, who lives in the building across the street.
Sumayya Usruf, whose cousin, husband and four-month infant child were killed in an apartment in the northern Gaza Strip, said: "This is a very tough Ramadan. We will not feel festive."
As she spoke, dozens of men brought the body of the baby home for farewell. Inside the ambulance was a coffin filled with flesh and body parts.
"This round is over but I am afraid another will soon begin. We aspire to a day when nothing of this will happen," said 55-year-old Adel Mohammad-Ali at one funeral.
