Scale of atrocities emerges as Gaza bombardment goes on

Gaza streets destroyed beyond recognition by Israeli airstrikes

Nowar Diab, 20, was sleeping with her mother and younger siblings when she first heard the loud thud of Israeli airstrikes pounding near her home in northern Gaza.

“It was really loud in seconds,” Diab recalled in a phone interview to NBC News from her grandparents’ home. She rushed over there, along with her nine year old sister and teenage brother, as the bombardment began.