during a brief ceasefire she drove into shajia. only a few residents remain. this is in the middle of the neighbourhood. this is a u.n. school. it's been gutted. you can see how empty the neighbourhood is, and hear the sound of drones. across the street from the school you see this, a house that's been destroyed. >> on the way out we met a family. israel told everyone to leave. some are heeding the call. >> can you tell me what you saw. >> we heard shelling and artillery and the sound is terrible. we saw shelling and death. we saw the dead, with our own eyes. these days death comes often in gaza. it doesn't discriminate. >> reporter: that was the scene at shifa hospital before the conflict began, the hospital was oning out of supplies -- was running out of supplies because of the siege by israel. in the last 10 daze they received prosecutor days they received more than 200,000 wounded. if they don't get money and supplies by tomorrow, they will not be able to help all the people they expect to stream in, and as you hear, the striking conditions. >> it's a fasc

one was in shajia, a district in the east of gaza city. and here is one of those leaflets. translation from the arabic goes, "for your own safety, we request that you vacate your residence immediately. the israeli defense force does not wish to harm you or your family. those who disregard these instructions endanger their own lives and those of their families." hamas got on the local radio straight away and said, "don't believe it, don't move, it's propaganda. the israelis simply want you to move out so that they can move in." the residents of shaja-ir were not impressed. this man said he couldn't read. "where can we go," this man asks. "we can't go? where are we meant to go?" >> reporter: this evening, the four boys killed just down the beach were laid out in the abu hasira mosque. the imam was agitated. he said, "our battle with the enemy will never end." >> ifill: hamas" rejected a cease-fire yesterday. today, the militants fired several dozen more rockets into israel, but caused no major damage and no casualties. >> woodruff: syrian president bashar al-assad was sworn i