It's going to take me a few hours of sleep and a few more hours of thinking to process the day I just had. Highlights include...

Interview in Gaza City with (PA national security advisor) Jibril Rajoub at a fancy hotel restaurant; a surprise meeting with MK Ahmed Tibi at said fancy hotel restaurant ("please give your card to my assistant so that we can stay in contact"); interviews with the commander of security for northern Gaza; a long and revealing conversation with a Palestinian TV reporter who speaks fluent Hebrew, learned at Ulpan Akiva in Netanya; being interviewed for Palestinian TV news (I swear); a tour of a Palestinian military base that's just about spitting distance from Netzarim; watching Palestinian security forces being drilled on a parade ground that looked like a basketball court...

Racing to the Eshkol media center so that Gal can file his story before deadline from one of the computers there, and so that we can attend the evening disengagement press conference - this time with IDF Southern Commander Dan Harel; listening as Harel makes a statement that will be old news by the time I get to write about it here...

Seeing one of my favourite IDF communications officer - the charming, efficient, handsome and multilingual Yaron - covered in white paint that was thrown at him by radical disengagement protestors at Kfar Darom...

Bumming a ride back to Tel Aviv with a (very) well-known Israeli journalist and listening as he conducts evening roundup conversations/interviews via his car phone with practically every high-ranking police and IDF officer who is involved in the disengagement ("So, have you wiped the egg off your head yet?")...

Arriving back in Tel Aviv to the best damned news of the day: the humidity has finally declined, and I can breathe again.

Sort of.

(more tomorrow)