[R-G] Iran TV says Israel strikes Gaza office, two hurt

[Anthony Fenton]

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/DAH962484.htm
Iran TV says Israel strikes Gaza office, two hurt
09 Jan 2009 19:25:02 GMT
Source: Reuters
(Adds Israel comment, paragraph four)

TEHRAN, Jan 9 (Reuters) - An Iranian state television station said two  
people were wounded by an Israeli rocket strike on the building  
housing its office in Gaza on Friday.

"Israeli rocket strikes Gaza media building, wounding two," Press TV  
said in a breaking news headline, after initially reporting no  
casualties in the incident.

"Israeli forces have targeted Press TV and al-Alam television stations  
in the Gaza Strip," the English-language satellite station said. Al- 
Alam is Iran's Arab-language television station.

An Israeli military spokesperson said the building had not been  
targeted, though it may have sustained "collateral damage".

Equipment, including satellite transmission devices installed on the  
roof, was damaged, Press TV said on its website. It did not identify  
the wounded or say if other media outlets were based in the same  
building.

A Press TV news presenter said Israel knew the building's coordinates  
and had given assurances it would not be attacked. Its website said  
staff had kept light projectors working on the roof of the building to  
mark it.

Iran has condemned Israel's 14-day-old offensive against Gaza, which  
Israel said it launched to end rocket attacks by the Palestinian  
militant group Hamas on southern Israel.

Israel has accused Iran of supplying arms to Hamas. Tehran, which does  
not recognise the Jewish state, says it gives moral, financial and  
humanitarian support to its Palestinian ally.

(Reporting by Fredrik Dahl; editing by Michael Roddy)