Gaza Kill and Maim Photos 2
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Following 30 December 2008 |
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Israel launched air strikes against Hamas targets in Gaza for a fourth
consecutive day on Tuesday. At left, a man inspected the damage to his home
near a ministry building destroyed by Israeli airstrikes. Photo: Abid Katib/Getty
Images |
Cars buried under rubble at the site of the ministry buildings compound.
Israeli aircraft bombed a government compound, buildings linked to the Islamic
University and the home of a top Hamas commander. Photo: Abid Katib/Getty
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The Jabalya refugee camp in Gaza on Tuesday. The continued onslaught left
the beleaguered enclave without electricity. Photo: Suhaib Salem/Reuters |
A Palestinian woman who fled her home slept at a United Nations aid center
in a school in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip. Photo: Ibraheem Abu
Mustafa/Reuters |
Palestinians looked at the remains of a destroyed building used by Hamas
police. Photo: Mohammed Saber/European Pressphoto Agency |
Relatives of four-year-old Haya Hamdan, killed with her sister, Lama, in
an Israeli missile strike mourned during her funeral in the town of Beit
Hanoun. So far in the offensive, more than 350 Palestinians - about 60 of
them civilians - have been killed, according to the United Nations. Photo:
Khalil Hamra/Associated Press |
Israeli soldiers cleaned the barrel of a tank at a staging area near Israel's
border with the Gaza Strip. The military has created a two-mile war cordon
along the Gaza border, with commanders saying that a ground force invasion
was a distinct possibility but had not yet been decided upon. Photo: Sebastian
Scheiner/Associated Press |
An Israeli soldier prayed near his comrades near the Israeli-Gaza border.
Prime Minister Ehud Olmert called the bombardment "the first of several stages,"
suggesting that the conflict was far from resolution. Photo: Menahem
Kahana/Agence France-Presse -- Getty Images |
A Palestinian Grad missile left a trail of smoke as it streaked from northen
Gaza towards Israel, as seen from an observation post on Israel's border
with the Gaza Strip. Photo: David Silverman/Getty Images |
Friends and family of Irit Shitrit, 39, mourned during her funeral on Tuesday
in Ashdod, Israel. Ms. Shitrit was killed by a Hamas rocket in Ashdod on
Monday. Photo: Uriel Sinai/Getty Images |
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