What does a war zone look like from space?

From aboard the International Space Station, German astronaut Alexander Gerst tweeted two images captured Wednesday as the station passed over Israel and Gaza.

My saddest photo yet. From #ISS we can actually see explosions and rockets flying over #Gaza & #Israel pic.twitter.com/jNGWxHilSy — Alexander Gerst (@Astro_Alex) July 23, 2014

He also tweeted this image, with the same message written in German.