Live From Gaza

>Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2000 04:40:27 -0800 (PST)
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>friends, you may have heard that the entire Gaza Strip came under extensive
>bombardment last night and is continuing today. Air strikes using 
>helicopter
>gunships and naval vessels. We don't know the full casualty count because
>too many people can't access hospitals because israeli troops have placed
>all towns under siege. They bombed our television building, but we got in
>online again and I went on air with a news broadcast. we were standing
>outside watching it all happen and it was terrifying. we evacuated the tv
>building and ran until we reached a residential area that might be safe. we
>could see rockets coming out of the sky and tried to guess their targets.
>you could see the sky light up bright blue before you heard or FELT the
>explosion rip through your ear drums and make the glass around you break.
>they bombed and bombed and bombed. glass everywhere...shrapnel. nothing 
>more
>terrifying than seeing a rocket head your way and not know where the fuck 
>to
>run. gaza has been under an electricity black out since the bombing last
>night. so imagine running around in the dark hoping they bomb near you
>enough so you can see the ground as you run. i'm writing this from the
>palestinian news agency where they're running on a generator. problem is
>that the generators here and at the TV run on diesel and israeli has cut 
>off
>totally our supplies of fuel, gasoline, and cooking gas.now we have no fuel
>and no power. it's fucking cold and soon we'll run out of everything and 
>not
>be able to drive or cook or heat our homes. our generators at the tv and
>news agency won't last long. as far as i can tell, the international media
>must be pretty quiet about this because no one contacted me saying they'd
>heard about this. They've never hit us with such an extensive bombing
>campaigh.They don't seem to be done yet. I can hear them bombing again now
>but we don't know where. No gasoline means ambulances can't reach victims.
>OUr telephones sometimes work but i thi..Shit bombing nearby noww evcuating
>now