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Israeli airstrike in Gaza destroys building with AP bureau

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Why are all the articles about this "[flagged]"?

Edit: Looks like https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27166482 is sticking to the front page.

Edit 2: Nope! Also flagged

According to Al Jazeera (who's offices were also in that tower), there were sixty residential apartments in there. Sixty families at least have lost their home, possessions and memories.

Hundreds of Israeli families lost their homes, hit by over 2,000 Hamas rockets deliberately targeting civilians. Israel warned this building's residents so none got hurt by airstrike. However, just two hours ago an Israeli building was hit by Hamas rockets and a man was killed:

https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/one-person-said...

So far 10 Israeli people were killed in these rocket attacks over the past week alone.

Im confused at the nerve of the comparison everytime.

What hope do you have when you had the misfortune to be born and live in gaza ?

Literally what ELSE do you have to do when you are basically jailed in 5km^2, other than building and sending rockets to the entity jailing you. Of course they are going to rebel. Its literally the plot of the movie "the maze". What else would you do ?

Mexicans in Juarez also have a pretty bad life compared to Americans in San Diego. If Mexican in Juarez fire 2,000 rockets at San Diego killing and wounding dozens of Americans, the US should just let it slide because those Mexicans are poor and unhappy?

This comparison makes no sense. Mexicans in juarez are not blocked to go ANYWHERE, BY the us.

Someone born in gaza the past 30 years or more is literally blocked BY ISRAEL to go anywhere else in the world.

With no hope, literally anyone would start rebelling and building rockets.

Once again another myopic view of the situation.

Let us not forget all of the Palestinians displaced (and killed) due to the state sponsored settlements...

Let's not forget all the thousands of innocent Jews massacred by Arabs since 1880, long before there were any "settlements".

The building was destroyed after providing notice to the occupants, allowing the AP staff to take their computers and leave. So it was not an attempt to silence reporting in the region, as the article claims.

That's not a very sound line of reasoning... What has having ones computer got to do with not being silenced by your office being leveled in an airstrike?

>The building was destroyed after providing notice to the occupants

Thanks I've been looking for this

I watched the BBC live reports where it collapsed https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-middle-east-57114168

But then I was searching around and found this video (and others) where people were standing with cameras and such as if they knew it was going to be destroyed https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mAEoOZ_Oxsw

So yeah I didn't know IDF gave early warning

Thanks for posting the youtube link. Very interesting to me how precise the targeting is... I guess rocket/bombing tech has gotten super good since I was a kid eh?

Context:

> Since Monday, more than 2,000 rockets have been fired by Hamas and Islamic Jihad — both groups designated as terror organizations by the United States — from Gaza in addition to unmanned attack drones and anti-tank missiles. Three missiles were also fired from Lebanon on Thursday.

> Nine people in Israel have been killed, according to the Magen David Adom emergency service, including a 5-year-old, Ido Avigal, who was killed Wednesday in Sderot, a small town on the Gaza border that has been regularly attacked by rockets for years.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/weary-israelis-endure-mor...

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