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Russian TV office in Gaza destroyed in
Israeli air raids
Sunday November 18, 2012 07:13:27 PM,
Agencies
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Moscow: An
Israeli air strike on a media compound in the Gaza Strip has
destroyed the office of Russia Today TV channel.
The office of RT's Arabic-language channel Rusiya Al-Yaum was
shelled by the Israeli forces early Sunday, according to the RT
press office.
The TV channel's filming crew was not affected as they had left
the building about an hour before the Israeli planes delivered the
strike, the press office said.
RT's office was located on the eleventh floor of the building,
which also accommodates Britain's Sky News, Italian RAI, German
ARD, Kuwait-TV and Palestinian news agencies.
The crew has now moved to a less-affected floor of the centre to
continue their work.
On Saturday, Hamas movement's headquarters in Gaza
were destroyed in deadly Israeli air raids as the two sides continued to exchange missiles in
escalating violence in the region.
The five-storey building was hit by five or six missiles or bombs
in quick succession around 4 a.m., smashing windows in buildings
nearby and starting a huge fire, a witness told RIA Novosti.
Witness reports said extensive damage was done to the building, in
which Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haniye received Egypt's Prime
Minister Hisham Qandil during a visit Friday.
"The cabinet headquarters was targeted with four strikes and the
government stresses that it remains committed to its positions and
its stand alongside the people," the Hamas government said in a
statement.
Eyewitnesses and Hamas officials said the building located in the
Nasser neighborhood of Gaza City was virtually leveled in the
strike.
“The headquarters was completely destroyed and neighboring houses
were damaged as a result of the barbaric Israeli bombing,” a Hamas
official told AFP.
The government building had only recently been constructed after
an Israeli military operation in Gaza in 2008-09 in which over
1,000 Palestinians and 13 Israelis were killed.
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