As we watch events unfold in Gaza on social media and on our television screens, we are only getting one per cent of the information from the ground, Palestinian student Aseel Safi says. Now with electricity being cut, less information will be getting out, and Palestinians will be unable to find out what is happening either.

The Israeli assault on the besieged Gaza Strip enters its sixth day and reports of intense bombings of apartments buildings, schools, hospitals and business continue to roll in. The majority of Gazans have little to no electricity, water supplies have been cut and supplies are not getting through. Entire neighbourhoods have been decimated and the remains of those killed are scattered in the streets, according to eyewitnesses. MEMO in conversation is joined by Gazan-based activist, poet and writer Aseel Safi. 

Aseel Safi is an English literature student at Al-Aqsa University.