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The death, destruction and chaos from the Israeli-Gaza conflict has been captured in striking photos on the ground, but even astronauts can see the fighting as it unfolds.
Alexander Gerst, a European astronaut working at the International Space Station, captured a photo of rocket fire and explosions apparently being exchanged between Israeli and Gaza as the ISS flew over the region Wednesday night.
My saddest photo yet. From #ISS we can actually see explosions and rockets flying over #Gaza & #Israel pic.twitter.com/jNGWxHilSy
— Alexander Gerst (@Astro_Alex) July 23, 2014
Gerst, from Germany, was assigned to join the ISS in September 2011. He set off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on a Soyuz spacecraft in May 2014. He will return to Earth in November.
His photo comes as the UN warned that Israel may have committed war crimes in its attack against Hamas in Gaza. “There seems to be a strong possibility that international law has been violated, in a manner that could amount to war crimes,” Navi Pillay, the UN high commissioner for human rights, said.
The conflict has been going on for over two weeks and so far over 700 people have been killed – more than 690 Palestinians, including at least 160 children, and 34 Israelis.
Agencies/Canadajournal
