These pictures were recorded minutes
after an Israeli air strike in central
Gaza in the early hours of this morning.
Carried out on a mattress, this man was
dusty but still alive.
Here, between the two kneeling rescuers,
you can see a hand.
At first they feared the worst, but then
a little digging revealed that the child
had also survived.
7-year-old Sada had been buried alive.
Wait, I want to straighten my leg. She
says it's tired. Ouch. It's sore.
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>> Zacharia, where is Zacharia? She asks.
He's 2 years old.
Zacharia is her nephew and he survived
the bombing on the skate.
>> They find Saja's phone and she says she
wants to speak to her mother. Our
cameraman tries to reassure her.
I'm a neighbor. Everyone is fine. He
says,
>> "Don't worry about speaking to anyone
else at the moment. You need to be
thinking how you will get out of there
and how you will help these men get you
out.
I've brought you a blanket. Don't be
scared."
Tonight, the child is in a field
hospital in Gaza. She has a broken hip
and shoulder.
Despite the talk of peace, this week has
seen no let up from the IDF, which has
concentrated much of its fire on Gaza
City. As we watched air strikes go in,
artillery pieces near our filming
position also opened fire.
The conquest of the strip's largest city
is Israel's latest stated goal in this
its longest ever war. And some of the
places in the IDF's crosshairs they have
taken at least three times before. It's
far from clear exactly what the IDF
hoped to achieve with this operation
inside Gaza City. Critics say this is
war for the sake of war and that for the
Israeli prime minister the objectives
are more political than military.
Before Israel announced the offensive
aimed at Gaza City, around a million
people were living there amidst the
bombed out buildings. This week has seen
many of them upsticks and head south.
These two young men described a night of
many air strikes and they didn't bat an
eyelid at the sound of another.
And then they were on their way, their
belongings piled on a bicycle and in
backpacks.
As they headed off, the reason for their
departure billowed into the blue sky.
John Irvine, News at 10, Tel Aviv.