An Al Jazeera journalist was broadcasting live when Israeli warplanes struck the Palestine Tower, an 11-story building in the Gaza Strip allegedly used by Hamas to store weapons and plan operations.

Al Jazeera correspondent Yumna El-Sayed was reporting live from Gaza when an Israeli missile hit the Palestinian Tower behind her.

Israeli forces reportedly gave people in the building 10 minutes to evacuate the tower before razing it to the ground. It is reported that the building also housed Hamas offices and the organization’s radio stations.

An Al Jazeera journalist later reported that the building was completely destroyed, destroyed.

Hamas responded by saying it fired 150 rockets in response to an Israeli airstrike on the Palestine Tower, an 11-story building in central Gaza City, the BBC reported.

Medical sources in Gaza say at least 198 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli airstrikes that began after Hamas attacked Israel, Al Jazeera reported.

On Saturday, the Islamist movement Hamas launched its biggest attack on Israel in years in a surprise attack that combined armed fighters who crossed the border fence and a powerful volley of rockets fired from the Gaza Strip. Warning sirens sounded in southern and central Israel, including Jerusalem, and the Israeli army announced it was on alert and mobilizing reservists. Benjamin Netanyahu called an emergency meeting of security chiefs as the Israeli military began striking Hamas targets, and the response to the attack is expected to be devastating.

“We are at war and we will win. Our enemy will pay a price he has never known before,” Benjamin Netanyahu said in a video address to Israelis.

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