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Gaza: Israel bombs tower housing international media, AP agency "horrified"

2021-05-16T06:37:23.075Z


The army had warned a few minutes before bombarding the building, allowing the occupants of the tower to evacuate.


The images are impressive.

We see the thirteen-story building collapsing dead in seconds.

On the maneuver?

The Israeli army.

A strike targeted this tower in Gaza City, which housed several international media including the Associated Press (AP) news agency and the Qatari news channel Al-Jazeera, on Saturday.

"We are shocked and horrified that the IDF is targeting and destroying the building housing the PA office and other news agencies in Gaza," AP wrote in a statement.

“They had known the location of our office for a long time and knew that journalists were there,” the news agency continued.

Israeli occupation forces destroyed the evacuation tower in Gaza, which housed the headquarters of media institutions including


Al-Jazeera and the Associated Press pic.twitter.com/mtNK7WolCC

- MahaSerag مهاسراج (@mahaserag) May 15, 2021

“We ran up the stairs from the 11th floor and now look at the building from a distance, praying that the army will eventually retract,” tweeted shortly before the raid Fares Akram, correspondent for AP in Gaza.

The strike had been announced a few minutes before by the army, allowing the occupants of the tower to evacuate.

AP confirms, in its press release, to have "received a warning indicating that the building would be affected", allowing its dozen journalists on the spot to evacuate in time.

And now bombs could fall on our office.

We ran down the stairs from the 11th floor and now looking at the building from afar, praying Israeli army would eventually retract.

https://t.co/WU2eLEX7kn

- Fares Akram (@faresakram) May 15, 2021

The Israeli air force had already destroyed on Thursday a tower of more than ten floors housing the offices of the Palestinian channel Al-Aqsa, created a few years ago by Hamas.

"It is a terrible thing, very sad, to target the office of Al-Jazeera and the press offices," Wael Aldahdouh, head of the office of the Qatari channel there, told AFP.

UN Council Meeting Sunday

In a statement, the Israeli forces confirmed the strike on this building which, according to it, housed "entities belonging to the military intelligence of the terrorist organization Hamas" and accused the Islamist organization of "deliberately installing military targets in ultra-remote areas. populated ”, using civilians as“ human shields ”.

"We are seeking information from the Israeli government and we are working with the US State Department to try to find out more," writes The Associated Press.

"The world will know less about what is happening in Gaza because of what happened today", also denounces the press agency, evoking "an incredibly worrying development".

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In the Middle East, the situation remains tense, while the UN Security Council is due to meet this Sunday. Despite intensified diplomatic efforts to end five days of fighting between Israel and Palestinian militants in Gaza, nearly 300 rockets were again launched overnight from Friday to Saturday from Gaza into Israel. , according to the Israeli army, which continued its raids, some deadly, on several sites in the coastal enclave under blockade.

Ten Palestinians, including two women and eight children, members of two cousin families, were killed at dawn in one of these strikes in the Al Shati refugee camp, located in the capital of the enclave. , where two million Palestinians live under Israeli blockades. Hamas, which had already fired around 300 rockets overnight according to the army, responded to the raid in the morning by firing a salvo of rockets at central Israel, to avenge the strike "against women and children. ".

Source: leparis

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