Al Jazeera reports that the Jabalia refugee camp in the north of the Gaza Strip has been largely reduced to rubble after a 20-day Israeli military incursion had been fiercely resisted by Palestinian armed groups.

Residents of Jabalia, now returning to the area after Israeli forces partially withdrew on Thursday, say the level of destruction is overwhelming, with homes and public buildings decimated and decomposing bodies left in the rubble-strewn streets to be eaten by stray animals.

“Look at the scale of destruction in Jabalia. The Israelis have destroyed us. They are actually testing their missiles on us,” one resident returning to the city told Al Jazeera.