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"Suddenly they told us to evacuate the camp. My husband is blind and started running barefoot, and my children were running. We were all confused and did not know where to go. We went out into the street and they asked that no-one stay here. Where do people go? We had settled down and gathered some things and settled in the camp. There is no place for a person to settle. Oh Arabs, oh countries, feel for us. Look what is happening to the people. By God, it is a sin that all this is happening."
Palestinians are once again fleeing for their lives as Israeli strikes and evacuation orders escalate throughout Gaza.
With at least 51 Palestinians killed by Israeli attacks in the past day, health officials in Gaza say the official death toll has now surpassed 50,000.
Israeli strikes on Nasser Hospital, the largest hospital in Khan Younis, have killed at least five people and injured even more.
In Rafah, Israel is ordering people to evacuate the Tel al-Sultan neighbourhood by foot as its troops surround the densely populated area.
Israel says it has encircled the neighbourhood to dismantle what it calls "terror infrastructure" in the area.
Ayda Abu Shaer was among those ordered to leave, she says she cannot take much more of this.
"We died tonight. Tanks are shelling us, our tents and houses, and they are shooting at us. We never slept. In the morning, they told us to leave. They threw leaflets. All the way, they were shooting at us and dropping shells and rockets. We threw ourselves into the streets and fell, asking for mercy. Enough is enough. We are exhausted. Our sons and daughters are dead, and the children have been orphaned. We don't know what to do."
Among those killed in the strikes were members of Hamas' political bureau, Salah al-Bardaweel and Ismail Barhoum.
The Palestinian Civil Emergency Service says 50,000 residents remain trapped in Rafah after the sudden raid, and warns their lives, and those of rescue teams, are at risk.
Israel says its renewed attacks and ground invasion in Gaza are part of efforts to force Hamas into releasing the remaining hostages before moving on to phase two of the agreement.
Since the ceasefire was officially called off last Tuesday, Israeli attacks on Gaza have killed at least 673 people.
United States Special Envoy Steve Witkoff says Hamas is to blame for the resumption of Israeli attacks.
"I thought we had a deal, an acceptable deal. I even thought we had an approval from Hamas. Maybe that's just me getting, you know, duped. But, I thought we were there and evidently, we weren't. So, this is on Hamas. The United States stands with the state of Israel. There's just - that's a 100% commitment. And we've expressed that. Hamas had every opportunity to demilitarise, to accept the bridging proposal that would have given us a 40 or 50-day ceasefire where we could have discussed demilitarisation and a final truce. There were all kinds of opportunities to do that, and they elected not to."
Hamas says Israel has repeatedly broken the terms of the ceasefire deal and refuses to begin negotiations for an end to the war and a withdrawal of its troops.
Hamas says it has followed the terms agreed upon in the original ceasefire deal, yet says it is willing to negotiate with Israel and is studying the "bridging" proposal put forward by Mr Witkoff.
During a stop in Egypt, European Union foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas held a press conference with Egyptian Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty.
On the future of Gaza, Mr Abdelatty says if both parties cannot proceed to phase two, there can be no acceptable outcome.
"The first point is political will. The second point is good faith, the presence of good faith. Without that, we cannot move forward. There is a ceasefire agreement that must be adhered to literally. We succeeded in the first phase in releasing more than 35 hostages. This means that the tunnels bore fruit in the first phase. We must continue and move on to the second phase of implementation."
Ms Kallas is in Cairo to attend a meeting of the Arab-Islamic Committee on Gaza, with representatives from Egypt, Jordan, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.
Egypt has proposed a committee of technocrats to administer Gaza for a transitional period, as part of its proposal for reconstruction.
Hamas says it has accepted the committee and that it won’t be part of Gaza's governance.
Ms Kallas says the plan must be concrete about the exclusion of Hamas.
"We welcome the Arab plan, but like I said it also has a lot of questions that need to be clarified. One question is the cost-sharing of the future reconstruction and very very important question is the governance of Gaza in the future and the security arrangements as well because the security concerns of Israel need to be also taken into account."
In Tel Aviv, protesters have been taking to the streets daily as fears for Israeli hostages and anger at moves to sack the head of the domestic intelligence agency bring different protest groups together.
Anti-government protesters like Michal Fruhmann say they have been met with extreme violence from the police.
"There has been extreme police violence. They're taking control of the police, they're taking control of the army. At the moment they went back to a war that has no necessity to be there, just in order to keep their seats and to bring the minister, the ex minister of police back, Itamar Ben-Gvir, who is a settler, in order to continue their take-over by bypassing the fiscal laws which are also totally against the law, so, and against the people."
