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Photos: Twitter screenshots taken by Palestine Crisis Map at 12:17 am, and ~12:45 am, Jerusalem time, Dec 2, 2012.

Photo: the site of the incident, with a destroyed subterranean water solid-state tank in a residential farming area, hundreds of metres from the border with Israel.


Update: 12/2/2012
Harry Fear via Facebook

On the supposed 'ceasefire breach' last night: a summary update

Reputable local news organizations and Palestinian journalists reported that an Israeli tank shell injured 4 in East Deir Al-Balah, Middle Gaza Strip at 10pm (local). I reported this and further details from these sources, including the nature of the sustained injuries.

During the night two international journalists brought doubt up
on the notion of it having been a tank shelling, suggesting that it could have been a fuel tank explosion. I can confirm that this incident was definitely not a benzine tank explosion or similar.

We have investigated, spoken to injured persons, as well as witnesses and residents. The incident was either a fresh attack (further ceasefire breach) or an incident from Operation Pillar of Cloud:

* Fresh attack by tank shell (initially reported universally in Gaza)
* Explosion of previously-unexploded bomb from Pillar of Cloud
* Fresh attack by drone strike
* Fresh attack by new military aircraft like F15

Photo: the site of the incident, with a destroyed subterranean water solid-state tank in a residential farming area, hundreds of metres from the border with Israel.

Our investigation of the scene and our interviewing of the witnesses constituted the only on-the-ground journalistic enquiry into what happened.

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~1am, Jerusalem time, Dec 2, 2012
Harry Fear ‏@harryfear
Israeli explanation: the shelled targets were too close to the border. So much for an erased no-mans-land buffer zone. #GazaUnderAttack

~12:45 am, Jerusalem time, Dec 2, 2012
Harry Fear ‏@harryfear
One of the critically injured (of 2) (of 4 altogether injured) is announced 'clinically dead' at Shifa Hospital, #Gaza City

~12 am, Jerusalem time, Dec 2. 2012
Harry Fear ‏@harryfear
Ceasefire 'broken proper': Israel bombs Deir Al-Balah in the Middle Gaza Strip area. Injuries report.