Begun bombarding gaza, cutting off electricity and water, and building up troops along the border. More than 500 palestinians have been killed in almost two and a half thousand strikes. Our International Editor jeremy bowen, has been following the days of intense violence. Inside gaza it looks every bit as if palestinians are feeling the full force of Israeli Military power. Israel says hamas is responsible for the suffering of gazas civilians. And its retaliation for the hamas attack is only just begun. Hamas has threatened to start killing its israeli hostages. The air strikes rolled on, hour after hour. Palestinian armed groups undeterred, kept up their own barrage of israel. Our bbc team was in ashkelon in southern israel not far from the gaza border when a salvo came in. Ashkelon is so close to guard so that there is no more than a ten second warning. Israel is moving in more fire power. The next stage of the offensive against hamas looks certain to be a Ground Offensive, much big
Dauphin County commissioners on Wednesday approved an ordinance to offer a real estate tax credit for volunteer first responders who own property in the county.
don t know how many people may still be trapped under the rubble. you heard a bit from dr. george smith a moment ago, his face bloodied there. he s the ems director for the town of west and joins us now. also with us, jill jenkins, a triage nurse who rushed to the scene. thank you for being with us. first, how are you doing? i m doing all right. exhausted but doing all right. you got injured in the blast. you were a quarter to half mile away and still got injured. yes. from what? i was in the nursing home evacuating the station closest to the fire, because i was afraid of hazardous materials and smoke, and luckily we had gotten everybody on the other side of the building when massive explosion t ro. the roof fell in on me, glass. i thank god i m alive just looking at it. it s a volunteer fire department here, a volunteer ems. if you had been on the scene
all residents in that area have been evacuated and are in safe locations. i do not have an exact number of casualties at this time or hurt. we took over 160 to a waco hospital, area hospitals, for treatment. search and rescue teams have been working through the night combing the west rest haven as well as the fire the fertilizer plant and also a thorough check of the neighborhood. that is continuing as we speak. devastation, john, is going to be both physically and mentally by this community because, remember, volunteer fire departments, volunteer ems, friends and neighbors, they were the ones that responded first to this disaster. they were the ones right there when that plant exploded.