panicked residents unable to flee January 4, 2009, 9:34 am
Just back in Gaza city with a ride from the ambulance (pogotowie), after a night at the Jabaliya Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS) station, in eastern Jabaliya, 1 km from the border, where we rode with the ambulances and endured a night of shelling, without armour, without safety, as did the population of northern Gaza.
From the news office in central Gaza, I cannot believe the sounds of bombing, though they are targeting the area from which I’ve just come, as they did throughout the night. From here it sounds like… like a massive sledgehammer smashing this land, smashing to pieces. ...
The hits are seconds apart, relentless. Somehow the drone’s buzz manages to be louder, its high pitch advertising that everything is still being surveyed, everything will still be bombed. ...
