Gaza: Death toll could be more than reported in the media, says journalist

The number of deaths caused by Israeli air strikes could possibly more than the ones reported by the foreign media.

Gaza-based journalist and activist Omar Ghraieb said that the death toll in two days stand at 72 while, AFP reported that 70 were killed as the attack entered its third day.

“Israel amped up their policy of targeting houses. They targeted 50 houses the first day. Maybe 50 more yesterday. Hence, the death toll kept increasing by the minute, too much deaths and injuries.

"What was weird is how Israel would bomb again houses that got already bombed earlier or the day before, also the repeated bombing of Gaza International Airport that Israel bombed/destroyed/flattened years and years ago,” stated Ghraieb in his blog GazaTimes.blogspot.com as he shared his personal account of the situation in Gaza.

He added that the use of tanks, warships, drones and warplanes against Gaza is likened to a full-fledged open war.

“Israel bombed a media car in Rimal, Gaza’s downtown. [Israel] also bombed Palestinian Red Crescent Society’s ambulance center in Northern Gaza and three medical personnel got injured.

“Most of the killed and injured are women and children, which is personally heart breaking for me and obviously children and women are civilian,” he wrote.