Gaza City:An Israeli airstrike that toppled a high-rise building in central Gaza City on Wednesday startled a Gaza-based journalist as she was reporting for Al Jazeera.
The journalist, Youmna Al Sayed, continued providing details of the strike even as loud explosions forced her to move away from a rooftop position just dozens of meters from the site of the airstrike.
Youmna Al Sayed, a Gaza-based journalist reporting for Al Jazeera said: "Like almost all the media offices are in this tower, along with Johara Tower, which was directly targeted yesterday." UPSOUND of explosion.
"As you can hear now, the raids are the raids are directly targeting the tower. Just a while ago as well. I'm sorry, I'm sorry. Again?" UPSOUND of explosion
"Oh, my God, yes, yes, yes, I need to go down.. I can't, I can't .... If you can hear me ...We're going to… we're going to direct the camera right now towards those explosions. Can you hear me? Yes, I've directed the camera now towards the explosion. This is, this is, Al Shourouk Tower that has been brought down as you can see. I was standing right opposite to it when I was talking to you. The destruction is massive. This is one of the… this is one of the biggest buildings. The building has not fallen yet, it has not fallen yet, which means that more rockets right now will be fired towards it."