Part" of this was reported by CNN:
http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/meast/12/30/gaza.israel.airstrikes/index.html
Eyewitness account of Gaza strikes - university students killedSafa, Palestinian living in Gaza, *Posted on facebook and asked tocirculate,* 28 December 2008
It was just before noon when I heard the first explosion. I rushed to mywindow, barely did I get there and look out when I was pushed back by theforce and air pressure of another explosion. For a few moments I didn'tunderstand, then I realized that Israeli promises of a wide-scale offensiveagainst the Gaza Strip had materialized. Israeli Foreign Minister, TzpiLivni's statements following a meeting with Egyptian President HussniMubarak the day before yesterday had not been empty threats after all. What followed seems pretty much surreal at this point. Never had we imaginedanything like this. It all happened so fast but the amount of death anddestruction is inconceivable, even to me and I'm in the middle of it and afew hours have passed already passed. 6 locations were hit during the air raid on Gaza city. The images areprobably not broadcasted in US media. There are piles and piles of bodies inthe locations that were hit. As you look at them you can see that a few ofthe young men are still alive, someone lifts a hand here, and another raisehis head there. They probably died within moments because their bodies areburned, most have lost limbs, some have their guts hanging out and they'reall lying in pools of blood. *Outside my home, (which is close to the 2largest universities in Gaza) a missile fell on a large group of young men,university students, they'd been warned not to stand in groups, it makesthem an easy target, but they were waiting for buses to take them home. 7were killed, 4 students and 3 of our neighbors kids, young men who were fromthe same family (Rayes) and were best friends.* As I'm writing this I canhear a funeral procession go by outside, I looked out the window a momentago and it was the 3 Rayes boys, They spent all their time together whenthey were alive, they died together and now their sharing the same funeraltogether. Nothing could stop my 14 year old brother from rushing out to seethe bodies of his friends laying in the street after they were killed. Hehasn't spoken a word since. What did Olmert mean when he stated that WE the people of Gaza weren't theenemy, that it was Hamas and the Islamic Jihad who were being targeted? Wasthat statement made to infuriate us out of out state of shock, to pacify anyfeelings of rage and revenge? To mock us?? Were the scores of children ontheir way home from school and who are now among the dead and the injuredHamas militants? A little further down my street about half an hour afterthe first strike 3 schoolgirls happened to be passing by one of thelocations when a missile struck the Preventative Security Headquartersbuilding. The girls bodies were torn into pieces and covered the street fromone side to the other. In all the locations people are going through the dead terrified ofrecognizing a family member among them. The streets are strewn with theirbodies, their arms, legs, feet, some with shoes and some without. The cityis in a state of alarm, panic and confusion, cell phones aren't working,hospitals and morgues are backed up and some of the dead are still lying inthe streets with their families gathered around them, kissing their faces,holding on to them. Outside the destroyed buildings old men are kneeling onthe floor weeping. Their slim hopes of finding their sons still alivevanished after taking one look at what had become of their office buildings. And even after the dead are identified, doctors are having a hard timegathering the right body parts in order to hand them over to their families.The hospital hallways look like a slaughterhouse. It's truly worse than anyhorror movie you could ever imagine. The floor is filled with blood, theinjured are propped up against the walls or laid down on the floor side byside with the dead. Doctors are working frantically and people with injuriesthat aren't life threatening are sent home. A relative of mine was injuredby a flying piece of glass from her living room window, she had deep cutright down the middle of her face. She was sent home, too many people neededmedical attention more urgently. Her husband, a dentist, took her to hisclinic and sewed up her face using local anesthesia 200 people dead in today's air raid. That means 200 funeral processions, afew today, most of them tomorrow probably. To think that yesterday thesefamilies were worried about food and heat and electricity. At this point Ithink they -actually all of us- would gladly have Hamas sign off every lastbasic right we've been calling for the last few months forever if it couldhave stopped this from ever having happened. The bombing was very close to my home. Most of my extended family live inthe area. My family is ok, but 2 of my uncles' homes were damaged, We can rest easy, Gazans can mourn tonight. Israel is said to have promisednot to wage any more air raids for now. People suspect that the next stepwill be targeted killings, which will inevitably means scores more ofinnocent bystanders whose fate has already been sealed. This doesn't even begin to tell the story on any level. Just flashes ofthing that happened today that are going through my head
