Posted on 05/15/2021 1:53:40 PM PDT by Presbyterian Reporter
Israel gave an hour warning and then destroyed the offices of Al Jazeera and Associated Press.
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — An Israeli airstrike on Saturday targeted and destroyed a high-rise building in Gaza City that housed offices of The Associated Press and other media outlets. Hours later, Israel bombed the home of Khalil al-Hayeh, a top leader of Gaza’s ruling militant Hamas group.
The Israeli military said Al-Hayeh’s home served as part of what it said was the militant group’s “terrorist infrastructure.” Al-Hayeh is a senior figure in the Hamas political leadership in Gaza, and the attack marked a further escalation, signaling that Israel is going after Hamas’ top leadership, and not just military commanders. His fate after the strike was not immediately known.
AP staffers safely evacuated the building after the military telephoned a warning that the strike was imminent within an hour. Three heavy missiles struck the 12-story building, collapsing it in a giant cloud of dust.
For 15 years, the AP’s top-floor office and roof terrace were a prime location for covering Israel’s conflicts with Gaza’s Hamas rulers, including wars in 2009 and 2014. The news agency’s camera offered 24-hour live shots as militants’ rockets arched toward Israel and Israeli airstrikes hammered the city and its surrounding area this week.
“The world will know less about what is happening in Gaza because of what happened today,” AP President and CEO Gary Pruitt said in a statement. “We are shocked and horrified that the Israeli military would target and destroy the building housing AP’s bureau and other news organizations in Gaza.”
The building also housed the offices of Al-Jazeera TV, as well as residential apartments. The Israeli military said Hamas was operating inside the building,, and it accused the terrorist group of using journalists as human shields.
WoW. The Israeli's imploded the building as if they were building detonation experts.
So sorry to see the Associated Press lose their vantage point. (sarc)
Dam Isreali’s! Left CNN and NY Times standing. FINISH THE JOB!
The building might have had Hamas antennas that tracked Israeli military activity.
Remove all terrorist supporting media, kkthx Israel.
A proud nation who fights. We could learn a lot from Israel.
From another report-—
“”Earlier, AP staffers and other tenants safely evacuated their office building after the military telephoned a warning that the strike was imminent within an hour. Three heavy missiles struck the 12-story building, collapsing it in a giant cloud of dust.””
LOL! If you were going to condemn anything the Israelis did, that would be it. WHAT!?!? You left the NYT and CNN in place? What were you thinking?
What better place for hamas terrorists to hang out thinking they’re safe.
So sorry Biden wasn’t in the building.
President Trump: “Why didn’t I think of that?”. LOL
Israel knows where they stage from. They use media, ambulances, hospitals etc.
In the old days the bad guys would use schools and hospitals as shields, now they use AP. That tells us something.
Too bad it wasn’t BLM headquarters. Gaza is a hellhole because the sand nazi’s can only control things via oppression.
Screw them.
What are the odds that one of the entrance to the “Metro” was in the basement of this building?
Looking at Google Map I noticed they had a lot of Hospitals in Gaza, I wonder how many of them have tunnels with weapons, ammunition and rockets?
It is a given that most if not all Mosque are part of the network of tunnels.
Errr, they are one and the same ain't they???? The AP kisses AJ's and Pravda and whatever the Commie Red Chinese calls their press, maybe Sex, Lies and Videotape destroyed, I guess maybe. Or maybe they call it Commie Joe and Son's Lying, Cheating, Thieving, Porn Tapes, and Moneymaking Schemes Red China Style.
You know what would be great revenge on the part of israeli citizens? Prank calling every phone in Gaza and telling them their building will be destroyed. Then, days later, calling and saying, “Sorry. Got the timing wrong. It’s going to be in one hour.”. Then, doing it again...and again.
Also got Hamas’ Intel Operations Center and maybe some rockets in the underground ‘parking’ garage.
I think Israel learned a lot from America. We defeated the Pirates of Tripoli. We defeated the Kaiser. We defeated Hitler. We defeated Saddam.
Evil must be defeated.
If only I had the time, and the numbers
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