Seven large, loud, building-shaking bombs just heard outside Al Deira Hotel in #Gaza City. Start of something else?
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Jodi Rudoren (@rudoren) November 17, 2012New York Times Jerusalem bureau chief Jodi Rudoren is reporting hearing seven explosions in Gaza City in the pre-dawn hours of Saturday morning. Al-Jazeera is also reporting at least one explosion.
Loud explosion rocks #Gaza in pre-dawn hours as #Israel continues bombardment | aje.me/U5glRG—
(@AJELive) November 17, 2012
A loud explosion rocked Gaza in the pre-dawn hours on Saturday, following an Israeli air strike on the coastal enclave, Reuters news agency witnesses said.
They added a Hamas compound was hit. No casualties were reported. The Israeli army spokesperson unit confirmed that the Air Force was bombing Gaza.
Update:
Rudoren believes the explosions she heard were from Israel’s strike on Ismail Haniyeh’s headquarters in Gaza.
Witnesses report near-total destruction of the ofc of Hamas PM Ismail Haniyeh in predawn bombardment; likely what I heard at 4 am—
Jodi Rudoren (@rudoren) November 17, 2012
Targeted overnight in #Gaza: Ismail Haniyeh's HQ, Hamas Ministry of Interior, police compound, training facility, rocket launching squads—
IDF (@IDFSpokesperson) November 17, 2012
The New York Times reports, “Mr. Haniya’s office was destroyed, witnesses said, and the main police complex nearby was also hit.”
Photo: This is what is left of Hamas gov’t HQ in Gaza City (AP) http://t.co/NAYbUpd2—
Jon Passantino (@passantino) November 17, 2012
Video via the IDF.
Watch this video of an IDF pinpoint strike earlier today on a #Hamas commander's explosives-laden house in #Gaza: youtu.be/NB6LpbV99Pc—
IDF (@IDFSpokesperson) November 17, 2012
The IDF says secondary explosions in the video indicate explosives were stored in the building.
