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
a girl had also survived.
Her name is Sada, and she'd 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 Sajgera'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, Saja 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 up sticks 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, ITV News, Tel Aviv.