'The strikes are everywhere' - The terrified Gazans who have been pushed south

Many Palestinians wonder if they would be better taking their chances at home

- Ruth Michaelson and Julian Borger

Even before Israel gave the order for a million Palestinians to leave their homes and flee south, Lubna took her four children and moved to a friend's house in Khan Younis, nearer the Egyptian border.

The family were able to share a room at first, but now in the wake of the Israeli edict and bombing campaign, that is no longer possible.

"We are not the only family at the house now. There are others. We are sleeping seven ladies in the same room and the men sleep outside," Lubna wrote in a series of texts from Khan Younis. "There is no electricity or water. The strikes are everywhere."

The implication behind the order for northern Gazans to move south to towns such as Khan Younis and Rafah was that it was for their own safety, but Lubna says the bombing in the south is constant. Her friend's house has been only narrowly missed. "When I say everywhere, it's literally everywhere," she said of the airstrikes.