Gaza Kill and Maim Photos 1
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Following 29 December 2008 |
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A wounded Palestinian man lay on the floor after an Israeli missile struck
the neighboring home of a Hamas military leader in Beit Lahia. Photo: Thair
Al-Hasany/Getty Images |
Three Palestinian boys who were killed in an Israeli missile strike during
their funeral in the Rafah refugee camp. The attacks brought the death toll
in Gaza to more than 300, according to Palestinian medical officials. Photo:
Khalil Hamra/Associated Press |
A Hamas police compound after an Israeli air strike. Israel says that its
onslaught -- its most ferocious against Palestinians in decades -- is designed
to prevent Palestinians from attacking towns in southern Israel with missiles.
Photo: Mohammed Salem/Reuters |
Palestinian civilians ran for cover during an Israeli air strike in the Jabalia
refugee camp. In the first two days of the operation Israeli jets destroyed
at least 30 targets in Gaza. Photo: Mohammed Abed/Agence France-Presse
Getty Images |
In a third straight day of deadly air strikes against the emblems and
institutions of Hamas on Monday, Israeli warplanes pounded targets in Gaza
including the Interior Ministry. At left, a destroyed mosque in the Jabalya
refugee camp that the Israeli military said was being used as a terrorist
base. Photo: Ali Ali/European Pressphoto Agency |
A Palestinian father of five young girls who were killed in an Israeli air
strike mourned as he held his wounded son. Photo: Mohammed Salem/Reuters |
The funeral for the sisters. A Hamas spokesman told reporters that Israel
had started a "war" but that it would not be able to choose how it would
end. He called for revenge in the form of strikes reaching "deep into the
Zionist entity using all means," including suicide attacks. Photo: Abid
Katib/Getty Images |
An Israeli woman wept at the scene of a Palestinian rocket attack in the
southern Israeli town of Sderot. Photo: David Silverman/Getty Images |
Palestinian demonstrators threw stones at Israeli soldiers in the West Bank
city of Hebron. Photo: Nayef Hashlamoun/Reuters |
Two rockets fired from inside Gaza as seen from the Israeli side of the border.
Photo: Rina Castelnuovo for The New York Times |
Israeli tanks at the Gaza-Israel border. On Sunday, Israeli troops and tanks
massed along the Gaza border and the government said it had called up reserves
for a possible ground operation. Photo: Uriel Sinai/Getty Images |
Israelis took cover during a rocket warning siren in the southern Israeli
town of Ashkelon, where a rocket fired from Gaza killed a man and wounded
seven on Monday. Photo: Tsafrir Abayov/Associated Press |
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Following 28 December 2008 |
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Palestinian rescue workers carried a wounded prisoner amidst the rubble of
the main security compound and prison in Gaza City known as the Saraya. Israeli
aircraft pounded Gaza for a second day on Sunday, increasing the death toll
to nearly 300. Photo: Majed Hamdan/Associated Press |
Smoke rose at the site of an Israeli missile strike in the Rafah refugee
camp in southern Gaza Strip. Photo: Eyad Baba/Associated Press |
A family fled the scene of a missile strike at Rafah. Over the past two days,
Israeli jets have destroyed at least 30 targets in Gaza. Photo: Hatem
Omar/MaanImages, via Associated Press |
The body of a Hamas security officer in a destroyed building. Across Gaza,
families huddled indoors as Israeli jets streaked overhead. Photo: Fadi
Adwan/Associated Press |
The Hamas-owned television station, Al Aqsa, was also bombed. Photo: Suhaib
Salem/Reuters |
Palestinians carried the body of the Hamas police chief, General Tawfiq Jabr,
during his funeral in Rafah, southern Gaza Strip. Photo: Said Khatib/Agence
France-Presse -- Getty Images |
Protesters threw stones at Israeli troops on the outskirts of Jerusalem.
The continued strikes, which Israel said were in retaliation for sustained
rocket fire from Gaza into its territory, unleashed a furious reaction across
the Arab world, raising fears of greater instability in the region. Photo:
Dan Balilty/Associated Press |
Palestinians clashed with Israeli border police near Shuafat. Photo: Ammar
Awad/Reuters |
Israeli women reacted during the funeral of Beber Vaknin, who was killed
by rocket fire in Netivot on Saturday. The hundreds of thousands of Israeli
citizens now within rocket range have been instructed by the authorities
to stay close to protected spaces. Photo: Uriel Sinai/Getty Images |
The Israeli government approved the emergency call-up of thousands of army
reservists in preparation for a possible ground operation as Israeli troops
and tanks massed along the border. Photo: Ariel Schalit/Associated Press |
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Following 27 December 2008 |
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Palestinians evacuated a wounded man after an Israeli air strike on Hamas
compounds in Gaza on Saturday. Photo: Suhaib Salem/Reuters |
Waves of Israeli aircraft swooped over the Gaza Strip on Saturday, firing
missiles at Hamass security headquarters and killing more than 200
people. Smoke billowing from the bombs could be seen from Rafah. Photo: Said
Khatib/Agence France-Presse -- Getty Images |
Firefighters at the site of a bombing of a Hamas security compound. The attack
was aimed mostly at security headquarters, training compounds and weapons
storage facilities, Israeli military officials said. Photo: Hatem Omar/Associated
Press |
Palestinians carried an injured man. The air attack came after days of warnings
by Israeli officials that Israel would retaliate for intense rocket and mortar
fire against Israeli towns and villages by Hamas and other militant groups
in Gaza. Photo: Suhaib Salem/Reuters |
An injured man struggled at the Hamas police headquarters. Most of the dead
and wounded were members of the security forces of Hamas, the Islamic group
that controls Gaza, but a few civilians were also among the dead, including
children. Photo: Mohammed Abed/Agence France-Presse -- Getty Images |
A member of the Hamas security forces was killed in the strike. "Hamas was
warned a few times in a variety of ways, but I can't elaborate on the warnings,"
said Maj. Avital Leibovich, a spokeswoman for the Israeli military. Photo:
Thaer Al-hasani/Associated Press |
Palestinians gathered at the site of a Hamas security compound in Rafah.
A shaky Egyptian-brokered truce between Israel and Hamas started to break
down in early November. Photo: Hatem Omar/Associated Press |
A victim of a strike on the Buriej refugee camp in Gaza. The attacks took
place in broad daylight on about 100 sites. Photo: Yasser Saymeh/Agence
France-Presse -- Getty Images |
Palestinians gathered around bodies being removed from the site of an airstrike.
A spokesman for President Bush called on Israel to avoid inflicting civilian
casualties, although he did not hall for a halt to the attacks on Hamas.
But a spokesman for Javier Solana, the foreign policy chief of the European
Union, called for an immediate halt to the strikes. Photo: Mahmud Hams/Agence
France-Presse -- Getty Images |
Two women embrace at al-Yarmouk Camp near Damascus, Syria, during a protest
against the Israeli air strike. In the face of the stinging criticism, Israeli
Defense Minister Ehud Barak was unrepentent for the massive assault. Photo:
Khaled Al-hariri/Reuters |
Women shrieked as dozens of mutilated bodies were laid out on the pavement
and in the lobby of Shifa Hospital so that family members could identify
them. Photo: Abid Katib/Getty Images |
Palestinian women flee during clashes between Israeli soldiers and Palestinians,
at the Kalandia checkpoint between the West Bank city of Ramallah and Jerusalem.
The Israeli military warned that "This operation will be continued, expanded
and intensified as much as will be required." Photo: Muhammed Muheisen/Associated
Press |
A protest at a refugee camp in Lebanon. The Arab League called an emergency
meeting for Sunday in Cairo of all member foreign ministers. Photo: Mohammed
Zaatari/Associated Press |
The presidential building in Gaza was hit in the attack. Hamas officials
went underground, but their spokesmen called on militants to seek revenge.
Photo: Abid Katib/Getty Images |
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Late November 2008 |
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