the city sleeps not so quietly

was reading the news just now about some airstrikes by the Israeli army in Gaza city,
as i read the desription I realised they were talking about the building at the end of my road,
i looked out the window,
ahhh.....that would explain the noises being that little bit louder than usual.

things have been kinda heating up here,
lots of internal gunfights
and external ginfights,
navy shelling, tank shelling, airstrikes etc.

was invited out for a meal with a bunch of ex-pats the other night,
mostly journalists and UN people,
was really cool,
even had some Irish stew and some wine.

tv is broken which sucks

emmm...
since I started writing this the power cut and I went out
when I came back I found out that things had kinda escalted here
3 people were killed in shelling today,
Hamas removed all the israeli cameras at the border and the israeli's have threatened to shoot the place up tonight if they're not replaced,
also found out an american friend of mine got deported
and an american family i spent some time here just got a personal threat and are leaving Gaza tonight.

by all accounts it'll be a messy few days.....