There are growing international concerns about the fate of civilians in Gaza as Israel has continued to pound the Strip with air strikes raising whole districts and killing Palestinians as it takes revenge for the Hamas attacks.
Hamas has also today continued to fire rockets into Israel, targeting the city of Ashkelon.
The World Health Organisation has called for a humanitarian corridor to be opened into the enclave.
Marilyn Garson of Alternative Jewish Voices worked in the United Nations Relief and Works Agency in Gaza through the war in 2014 and lived there for four years.
She now lives in New Zealand, and spoke to Charlotte Cook over the phone.
