The Associated Press said Saturday it was "shocked and horrified" by the Israeli airstrike that destroyed a building housing the US news agency's Gaza bureau and those of other international news media. "This is an incredibly disturbing development. We narrowly avoided a terrible loss of life," AP President and CEO Gary Pruitt said in a statement about the attack on the building, which also housed Qatar-based Al Jazeera. "The world will know less about what is happening in Gaza because of what happened today," Pruitt said. dw/bbk