These are only extracts referring to the bombing of Gaza Port. You can read the whole report posted on the ISM webpage on: January 1, 2009
Wednesday:
[...] The port, across from where I tried to sleep, was targeted, the Port Authority building destroyed and the dock repeatedly shelled, the impact of the shells some of the closest and most deafening I’ve felt yet, rivaling the shelling 30 m from my friends home in Jabaliya which we experienced three nights ago. The target: an olive orchard in the back yard of a fence-in neighbour’s house.
10:20 am: 6 more blasts, sets of 2, direction of the port
[...]
Tuesday:
8:57 pm
missile shot from Apache lands outside the apartment we are staying in tonight, hitting the Port Authority building just 150 m away.
9:18 pm
missile shot from an Apache hits the port, 400 m from the apartment we are staying in
*drones continue to fly over this building, and over the building which I visited one hour before (near the bombed Minister’s compound)
9:33 pm
2 shots from Israeli naval boats, targets as yet unknown
9:34
3 more shots
9:40
2 more shots; “They are aiming at the breakwater in Gaza’s harbour,” Mahfouz, a sailor living just down the road, tells me: “They are warning that they are out there. They want to show us their power. They did the same thing yesterday.” [Mahfouz received a shell beside his front yard two nights ago. His family –one teenage son and several young girls, is terrified.]
[the power cuts, I’m unable to continue updating and unable to know what is happening around me]
