February 1, 2009

Israel bombing Gaza

Per Al Jazeera, "Israel has bombed several targets in the Gaza Strip, witnesses say, hours after the Israeli government vowed a 'disproportionate response' to rocket fire from the Palestinian territory."

Tweets are streaming in from the region, including word of a fresh strike from Gaza into Israel.

@ahmednaguib (Cairo, Egypt): crap, news is going to get ugly, Israeli warplanes drop bombs on the Egypt-Gaza border area, that's not going to be good at all :(


@QassamCount (Sderot, Israel): 5:31pm: 5 mortars land in western Negev; 2 lightly hurt http://tinyurl.com/aug2gq #Qassam #Gaza


@Okbah, a Syrian national, is live tweeting on developments in Gaza. His bio says he is in Saudi Arabia and that he is relying on government reports for his info.

@Okbah (Saudi Arabi):
مصر تدعو الوفود العربية والأجنبية بغزة للمغادرة قبل 5 فبراير #Gaza (Egypt calls for Arab and foreign delegations to leave Gaza before the February 5 # Gaza)


@Okbah (Saudi Arabi): الأن صاروخ أخر : قصف للمرة الثانيه في منطقة الحدود المصريه (Now another missile: bombed for the second time in the border area # Gaza)


@Okbah (Saudi Arabi): دخول طيران مروحي الان فى اجواء الشمال #Gaza (Now enter the helicopter flying in the skies over the north # Gaza)

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