TONY EASTLEY: Life too has been thrown into turmoil for people in the Gaza Strip where Israeli attacks are continuing.

Twenty-one year old Palestinian blogger and student Shaid Abu Salamah is terrified of stepping outside.

She says the hospitals are struggling to cope with the injured and many people have abandoned their homes as they search for somewhere safe.

Shaid, what's life like for you where you are living at the moment?

SHAID ABU SALAMAH: It's very freaky and very horrifying. And people here are very traumatised. They - you can't see anyone now in the street. People never leave their houses, they are just locked inside waiting as if like, everyone is fearing that he is going to be the next target.

We are hearing thumpings all the time, all the time, 24 hours a day. We can hardly sleep.

And ambulances of course. Ambulances are 24 hours transferring more casualties to the hospitals of Gaza. And the hospitals of Gaza are crowded with injuries and bodies of the martyrs, of the killed people in Gaza.

TONY EASTLEY: If you are unable to get out of your house Shaid, how do you know that the hospitals are crowded? How are you learning this?

SHAID ABU SALAMAH: When we have electricity, we can look at the TV for example. And the radios are 24 hours. And I am in touch also with some medics in the (inaudible) hospital and they tell me that the situation is very, very bad.

TONY EASTLEY: Do you have your family there with you?

SHAID ABU SALAMAH: Yes and we have also people who have already evacuated their houses because they had, there were shellings and some things (inaudible) their house.

TONY EASTLEY: If people are staying inside their houses for fear of the attacks, how long can they last without going out and getting extra food and extra provisions, is there going to be a problem for them?

SHAID ABU SALAMAH: When the attacks started on Wednesday, the people in Gaza knew that it's going to be a long term attack so they have, they rushed to the closest supermarkets to their houses and they brought food supplies.

But in this situation no-one has any appetite to eat or no-one feels like sleeping because it's horror, like you can't imagine the kind of horror we are living here. And civilians are attacked, children are dying.

If you see, if you see the images and the scenes of the dead bodies that are being pulled out from under the rubble, it's just too ugly, too inhumane. And Israeli is creating, they are crimes against humanity.

TONY EASTLEY: Twenty-one year old student Shaid Abu Salamah speaking there from Gaza strip.