Chilling live tweets as windows shatter around journalists in Gaza City

November 21st, 2012

FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda

Minutes later, with the power to the Deira hotel knocked out, she added: “Oh
my god MASSIVE explosion here. Okay, but really strong, shook us a lot. Hear
broken glass. #Gaza”.

NBC News correspondent Ayman Mohyeldin added: “window in my room has been
shattered by an Israeli airstrike on an open field next to our hotel in
#gaza @NBCNews”.

Journalists at the nearby Beach Hotel also reported that the windows in the
building had been shattered. Others posted images of journalists in flak
jackets and helmets inspecting the damage after the attack. No journalists
were reported hurt during the attack.

Meanwhile the IDF used its official Twitter account to warn journalists to
avoid being used as human shields. The Washington Post’s Cairo bureau chief
Abigail Hauslohner, who is also in Gaza, responded:

Also on Tuesday night, the Twitter and Facebook accounts of Israeli vice prime
minister Silvan Shalom were hacked by pro-Palestinian activists who
published a flood of posts supporting the Palestinian cause.

Earlier on Tuesday, the building housing AFP’s Gaza City office was struck by
three rockets. “I was in the office with a fixer and suddenly we heard
an explosion,” AFP photographer Mahmud Hams, who was in the
fourth-floor office at the time and was unharmed, said.

“I grabbed my cameras and left the office with the fixer and there was
smoke in the hallways. We ran out of the building,” he said.

The Israeli military confirmed targeting the eight-storey building in Gaza
City’s Rimal neighbourhood. “Minutes ago, we surgically targeted a
Hamas intelligence operations center on 7th floor of a media building in
Gaza. Direct hit confirmed,” the the army said via its Twitter account.

“The Hamas terrorists weren’t in the media building to be interviewed.
They were there to communicate with field operatives and plan attacks,”
it added.

“Warning to reporters in Gaza: Stay away from Hamas operatives and
facilities. Hamas, a terrorist group, will use you as human shields.”

The Tuesday night attacks came after three Israeli strikes on buildings that
house media offices, which the military defended, saying each raid targeted
militant facilities.

The first two strikes came on Sunday, when war planes bombed the Showa and
Housari building in the Rimal neighbourhood, causing extensive damage and
wounding six journalists, including one who lost a leg.

The building housed various media outlets, including international stations
and the Hamas-affiliated al-Quds channel.

The second raid hit the Shuruq building, which also housed various media
outlets, including the Hamas-affiliated al-Aqsa television station.

The Shuruq building was hit again on Monday, in a strike that killed a senior
Islamic Jihad militant, according to the Islamist faction.

Israel confirmed the attack, with its intelligence services saying the strike
had targeted “senior Islamic Jihad officials” who were on the
premises.

On Monday, the Israeli military said its initial strikes on the Showa and
Housari and Shuruq buildings had targeted rooftop operational communications
belonging to Hamas, adding that it had sought to minimise civilian
casualties.

But the strikes were condemned by the local Foreign Press Association as well
as international media watchdog Reporters Without Borders.

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