Incredible Photographs Capture Israeli Missiles
-a Split Second Before they Reduce Gaza Buildings to Rubble in Front of Palestinians
- Young men and children cower in street as four missiles smash into apartment block a few hundred yards away
- Family of 35 fled the building moments earlier after being warned by the Israeli military of the impending strike
1 August 2014
Gazing skywards with their hands over their ears, these astonishing pictures capture the moment terrified Palestinians watch Israeli missiles falling from the sky before smashing into an apartment block.
As young men and children congregate in the street, Israeli drones target the building with three strikes, sending thick plumes of smoke billowing into the air just a few metres away.
An F-16 fighter jet then roars overhead to drop the final, knock-out missile, obliterating the building with an almighty boom that rocks the district.
The images, which captured the missiles from different points in the street, were taken earlier this week in Gaza City which has been under constant bombardment since the conflict began three weeks ago.
Incoming: Palestinians brace themselves as an Israeli missile falls from the sky towards an apartment block a few hundred metres away
Detonation: Residents in central Gaza City watch as an Israeli air strike destroys
an apartment block in a pinpoint strike that is not thought to have killed or injured anyone
Palestinians gaze skyward and clasp their ears as another missile homes in
on the building. Afterwards, residents walk nonchalantly past the explosion
Just a few minutes earlier, the owner of flats had been told of the impending strike after the Israeli military phoned his son to warn them.
Bashir al-Ramlawi, 58, said he scampered out of the building with 35 of his relatives just in time to see his home reduced to rubble, it was reported by Sudarsan Raghavan
Many of his relatives - like some 200,000 other Gazans - had already fled their own houses and now they were homeless again.
As the dust settled, Mr al-Ramlawi said: 'I don’t know why they hit my house. We don't know where we will go.'
Afterwards, people gathered to take take pictures of the devastation on their mobile phones.