Gazans flee another Israeli blitz

SMOKE and debris fill the skyline as Palestinian families flee in terror from the latest Israeli attack.

- BY SIMON MURPHY

They included a woman cradling a baby and an elderly woman walking with a stick being helped by others.

The terrifying scenes were captured yesterday in Deir al-Balah, in the centre of the war-torn Gaza Strip, as fresh UN pleas for a ceasefire fell on deaf ears.

Airstrikes destroyed at least 100 tents of people who had already been displaced by earlier fighting, according to the nearby Al Aqsa hospital.

Civil defence teams rushed to the site, fighting the flames that spread through the makeshift shelters.