Gaza Kill and Maim Photos 12
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Following 11-12 January 2009 |
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Luay Suboh, 10, lost his eyesight and some skin on his face Saturday when
a fiery substance clung to him as he ran in a street. Photo: Ismail
Zaydah/Reuters [The substance was likely white phosphorus shelled by the
Israelis for incineration and smokescreen. (see spray at right)] |
Smoke billowed from Israeli shells exploding over the northern Gaza Strip.
Overnight, the Israeli military said, its warplanes carried out fewer strikes
than on some previous nights of its campaign in Gaza. Photo: Menahem
Kahana/Agence France-Presse Getty Images |
Smoke and fire rose from fuel tanks hit by an Israeli airstrike in Rafah,
in the south of the Gaza Strip. Photo: Eyad Baba/Associated Press |
A Palestinian walked amid the rubble of a house destroyed after an Israeli
airstrike in the northern Gaza Strip. Photo: Mohammed Salem/Reuters |
An Israeli woman stands near a wall pockmarked by shrapnel from a Palestinian
rocket in Beer Sheva, Israel. Photo: Moises Saman for The New York Times |
In Sderot, Israelis stood at the site of a destroyed home that was hit by
a rocket fired from Gaza. Photo: Moises Saman for The New York Times |
An Israeli Army reservist prayed by an armored vehicle parked on the Israeli
side of the border with Gaza, after returning from a mission there, Monday
afternoon. Photo: Moises Saman for The New York Times |
Palestinian families left their houses in Rafah near the Gaza Strip's border
with Egypt on Monday after the Israeli army warned residents to leave the
area. Photo: Said Khatib/Agence France-Presse Getty Images |
Palestinians in northern Gaza Strip fled their houses Monday. Photo: Mohammed
Salem/Reuters |
Explosives experts in Israel look at a house damaged after a rocket landed
in the southern Israeli city of Ashkelon. Photo: Jerry Lampen/Reuters |
Palestinian fighters have put up intense resistance to Israeli troops around
Gaza City [AFP] |
Gaza's hospitals are struggling to cope with the nearly 4,000 Palestinians
injured [AFP] |
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Activists with medical supplies set sail for Gaza from Cyprus in defiance
of the Israeli blockade [Reuters] |
Ahmed Samouni survived the shelling of his Zeitoun home, but lost his mother
and four brothers |
The Red Cross has criticised Israel for allegedly preventing access to the
wounded [AFP] |
Hi-rez
Paratrooper Brigade forces during an operation in the Gaza Strip. Photo:
IDF Spokesperson |

New York City Anti-Israel Protest |
Paratrooper Brigade forces during an operation in the Gaza Strip. Photo:
IDF Spokesperson |
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