Shocking are the morning tweets from Al Jazeera journalist Maram Humaid, who lives in Gaza, from where she describes the sounds of the bombs getting “louder and closer”.

“This is torture. The sound of bombs is getting closer and closer. The smell of gunpowder is everywhere and dust fills the air. What breakfast in Gaza?’ writes on the X platform.

In a second tweet 50 minutes later, he wrote: “A huge bomb dropped very close to our house without warning. I woke up to broken glasses on my head. I immediately covered my two-month-old baby with my body, took him and ran away.”