“Harrowing” reports are emerging from aid workers inside Gaza as Palestinians are “crammed in a smaller and smaller area” that is being bombarded from Israeli forces, the secretary-general of the Norwegian Refugee Council has said. 

Jan Egeland told Sky News there are no safe areas in southern Gaza, despite calls from the Israeli military for Palestinians to move to them. 

There is “no functional aid” for the civilian population and it’s an “illusion” the IDF is taking precautions, he said. 

Mr Egeland said 50 of his colleagues on the ground in southern Gaza received leaflets dropped by Israel’s military telling them to go to “known shelters” and “safe places” with no mention of where they were.

There is a map that can be accessed online but the internet is not working, he said. 

The secretary-general described the Israeli offensive as the “worst possible way to wage war against terror” and said it had created conditions which were “unliveable for two million people”.