Gaza Kill and Maim Photos 4
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Following 2 January 2009 |
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Three Palestinian Qassam rockets left smoke trails in the sky as they were
launched toward Israeli civilian targets from Gaza. Since the Israeli air
offensive began last Saturday, Hamas has deployed longer-range rockets capable
of hitting Israeli cities over 20 miles away. Hamas officials said that more
missiles were fired on Friday. There were no new reports of Israeli casualties.
Photo: David Silverman/Getty Images |
Residents of Ashkelon, Israel took cover as a Qassam rocket flew overhead.
Israel says its military incursion is designed to destroy the ability of
Hamas militants to fire rockets at southern Israel, where three civilians
and a soldier were killed in rocket attacks this week. Photo: Pavel
Wolberg/European Pressphoto Agency |
A Palestinian protester threw stones at Israeli troops, not seen, during
clashes at a demonstration against Israel's military operation in Gaza, in
the Shuafat refugee camp, on the outskirts of Jerusalem. Hamas called on
Palestinians in the West Bank and in East Jerusalem to mark Friday as a "day
of wrath" by holding marches after the noon prayer. Photo: Oded
Balilty/Associated Press |
Israeli riot police ran after Palestinian stone throwers during a protest
against Israel's military operation in Gaza, outside Jerusalem's Old City.
At the entrance to the Shuafat refugee camp on the edge of Jerusalem, Palestinian
youths burned tires and threw stones toward an Israeli checkpoint where soldiers
stood in full riot gear. Photo: Muhammed Muheisen/Associated Press |
Palestinian residents with dual citizenship left Gaza by bus at the Erez
crossing, at the Gaza-Israel border. Israeli warplanes bombed targets in
Gaza for a seventh day on Friday and allowed foreigners, many of them married
to Palestinians, to leave the beleaguered enclave, raising fears of a pending
broader attack, including a possible ground offensive. Photo: Pavel
Wolberg/European Pressphoto Agency |
Hamas members carried the body of Nizar Rayyan, a senior Hamas leader, and
the bodies of his family during their funeral in the refugee camp of Jabaliya
in northern Gaza. Mr. Rayyan's four wives, at least nine of his children
and several neighbors were also killed when his home was bombed. About 2,000
Gazans turned out for the funeral. Photo: Mohammed Saber/European Pressphoto
Agency |
A car in Ashkelon was hit by a Palestinian rocket. At a news briefing at
the White House, a spokesman, Gordon D. Johndroe, said that Israel has a
right to defend itself from the rocket attacks out of Gaza. But he added
that Israel also needed to "avoid unnecessary civilian casualties," and to
continue the flow into Gaza of humanitarian goods. Photo: Moises Saman for
The New York Times |
Palestinians collected belongings from the destroyed home of Mr. Rayan on
Friday. Photo: Hatem Moussa/Associated Press |
A funeral on Friday in the Gaza Strip for Nizar Rayyan, a Hamas leader, and
members of his family who were killed by an Israeli attack on Thursday. Photo:
Ashraf Amra/Associated Press |
Israelis in Ashkelon on Friday in an apartment hit by a rocket from Gaza.
Photo: Edi Israel/European Pressphoto Agency |
Hamas called on Palestinians in the West Bank and in East Jerusalem to mark
Friday as a "day of wrath" by holding marches after noon prayers. A protest,
pictured, in Maasarah near the West Bank city of Bethlehem. Photo: Musa
Al-shaer/Agence France-Presse -- Getty Images |
Israeli soldiers fired teargas shells on Palestinian protesters blocking
the main road leading from the West Bank town of Ramallah on Friday. Photo:
Atef Safadi/European Pressphoto Agency |
A Palestinian man was arrested by Israeli riot police after clashes with
Palestinian youth in the Ras Al-Amud neighborhood of east Jerusalem on Friday.
Photo: Anja Niedringhaus/Associated Press |
Smoke rose near the border in Gaza after an Israeli strike. Photo: Uriel
Sinai/Getty Images |
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