Farah Baker, Palestinian teenager tweets real-time bombing in Gaza: “I might die tonight” | News.com.au
"I might die tonight."
A PALESTINIAN teenager is using social media to give a devastatingly frightening insight into the situation in Gaza.
16-year-old Farah Baker tweeted this pic calling for peace last week.
Source: Twitter
16-year-old Farah Baker, who goes under the name Farah Gazan on
Twitter, is amassing thousands of followers and re-tweets on Twitter
after sharing a night of her private terror from her bedroom as rockets
fell through Gaza overnight.
“I might die tonight,” she wrote.
The
teenager tweets furiously between attacks; posting video footage and
sound grabs of bombs and missiles as they fly through the air and hit
unsuspecting targets.
Yet some have debated the validity of Baker’s
tweets, with some arguing the teenager is in it for the extra followers.
Others though, have begged her to keep tweeting.
“Lets hope this keeps up, that she survives tonight,” wrote Christina Greig.
But Baker has been blogging about her life in Gaza since 2012. In her last post,
Baker wrote, “I want to speak about what is happening these days in
Gaza. We cannot leave our houses because it’s dangerous outside.”
Bloodshed
in and around Gaza has surged today with strikes killing 13
Palestinians, a day after five Israeli soldiers died, shattering hopes
for an end to three weeks of violence.
