GlobalPost’s Egypt correspondent, Theo May, finally landed inside Gaza. Using his Blackberry to file because he couldn’t get any internet connection through his laptop, he has just filed a riveting account of what it feels like on the ground tonight under the Israeli air strikes.

Getting inside Gaza makes him one of the few Western reporters who has managed to get on the ground to document the devastation and the killing that has gone on during three weeks of an Israeli offensive. Many Palestinian reporters and photographers have been the only ones documenting the conflict. The Israelis have blocked the Western media from going inside Gaza. But Theo was able to enter from the Egyptian side of the border at Rafah.

Gaza is controlled by Hamas, the Islamic militant group that broke the ceasefire and began rocketing southern Israel. Israeli officials say those Hamas rocket attacks provoked their overwhelming display of force which has killed more than 1,100 Palestinians, including hundreds of civilians. Theo is now in a place to be our witness on the ground and he will be bringing you his live reports from the field all weekend.

We have also put together a photo gallery of Reuters images from the Israeli offensive. The images show the massive destruction and the horrific suffering of the Palestinians under this offensive. It also shows the Israeli military carrying out what it believes is a necessary offensive to put an end to the Hamas attacks on its civilians. Some of the images are disturbing. But then again so is war.