Thriller Journey Toward Gaza City

TUESDAY (20/11) afternoon, suddenly the Egyptian authorities at the Rafah city immigration permit reporters enter the Gaza Strip. A total of 12 journalists from several countries, including the Compass, who was at the gate of the Rafah border crossing, immediately welcomed the decision.
Compass was accompanied by Al Azhar University student from Indonesia, Saiful Ridjal Ajib.
An official press center in the town of Rafah immigration named Adel Muhammad then immediately called the reporter and asked for the passport to be processed enter the Gaza Strip. Within about 45 minutes, completed passport affair. Adel then ask all journalists to sign a letter stating that their own responsibility for everything that happens on the journalist concerned over Gaza.
After signing the papers, and then invited journalists to cross into the Gaza Strip, Palestinian territories subjected to heavy Israeli air strikes since last week.
Arriving on the Palestinian side, the journalists had to undergo immigration checks in Palestine which takes about an hour.
After immigration ended and we prepared to go to Gaza City, Compass had asked a Palestinian police officer about the safest way to Gaza City. The police simply raise your hands up, saying, "Only God can protect us here." Compass immediately understand that there is nothing to guarantee security in the Gaza Strip.
Compass Direct public taxi, a yellow old Mercedes car that was in front of the Palestinian immigration. Taxis are driven by a driver named Mohammed (52) drove to the main road quickly scour Rafah-Gaza City known as Salahuddin's Way.
The distance between Rafah and Gaza City is only about 35 kilometers. The road is paved smooth, but somewhat narrow with a width of about 5 meters.
The sound of planes
On the way to Gaza City began to emerge feeling tense because this trip takes place in a war situation. Israel's drone sound that constantly fly over the Gaza Strip continue to be heard since from Rafah to Gaza City.
That is, Israel photographing all the objects moving in the Gaza Strip through the drone and certainly knows exactly all the movement of traffic, including taxis carrying the Compass.
However, the feeling was already resigned to having been a determined decision to enter the Gaza Strip in a state of war.
The taxi drove through town after town, then through the town of Rafah Khan Yunis. When passing Khan Yunis, feeling a bit quiet since seen many city residents to relax in front of their house or hanging out in the street, as if there was no war alone.
In addition, increasing the traffic is calm Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu and Arab League Secretary General Nabil al-Arabi to Gaza City at the time. Israel would stop the onslaught during the existence of Turkish Foreign Minister and Secretary General of the Arab League in the Gaza Strip. Indeed, all the way from Rafah to Gaza City inaudible sound one missile or bomb blast.
However, Compass had panicked when the taxi, after passing through the town of Khan Yunis, immediately turn to the right or east toward Maghazi refugee camp near the border with Israel. Compass Direct protesting taxi drivers, why turn to the right, not directly to Gaza City. The driver replied, need to Maghazi refugee camp before having to drop off passengers who live in the refugee camps.
After dropping passengers at the camp Maghazi, the taxi drove into Gaza City.



Source: http://internasional.kompas.com/read/2012/11/22/08332565/