Gaza Kill and Maim Photos 9
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Following 7 January 2009 |
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The funeral for 14 of around 40 people killed on Tuesday when Israeli mortar
fire struck near a United Nations school in Gaza where many people were taking
refuge. Photo: Hatem Moussa/Associated Press |
Mouen Deb, left, mourned with relatives beside the bodies of two of his children
and his wife, who were killed when Israeli shells exploded near a United
Nations school in Jabaliya in northern Gaza. Photo: Abid Katib/Getty Images |
The aftermath of an airstrike in the Rafah refugee camp on Wednesday. The
rising civilian death toll in crowded Gaza heightened international urgency
to end the combat. Israel has said repeatedly that it will not end the operation
in Gaza until it is certain that Hamas will no longer fire rockets into its
civilian areas. Photo: Khaled Omar/Associated Press |
Women grieved during another funeral, for ten family members killed in a
missile strike. Photo: Mohammed Saber/European Pressphoto Agency |
Israel pressed on with its 12-day bombardment of the Gaza Strip on Wednesday,
despite a brief suspension of fighting to permit humanitarian aid to reach
the beleaguered population. At left, an Israeli mobile artillery unit fired
a shell into Gaza before the commencement of the temporary cease-fire. Photo:
Spencer Platt/Getty Images |
Soldiers rested on the Israeli side of the border with Gaza during the three-hour
cease-fire. The afternoon lull in the fighting suggested Israel might be
responding, if only tentatively, to diplomatic pressure, a day after Israeli
mortar shells killed as many as 40 Palestinians, among them women and children,
outside a United Nations school in Gaza. Photo: Moises Saman for The New
York Times |
A rocket fired from Gaza streaked toward southern Israel before the cease-fire
took effect. It was not immediately clear whether the militant Hamas movement,
which governs Gaza, had also agreed to the plan, although senior Hamas officials
were quoted as saying that it would not fire any rockets while Israel suspended
its bombing. Photo: Dan Balilty/Associated Press |
Palestinians looked at buildings that were destroyed by an Israeli airstrike
in Rafah. Amid the fighting in Gaza, Israel said the three-hour lull would
be repeated every other day between 1 p.m. and 4 p.m. to allow Gaza's population
to seek medical help, buy food and receive humanitarian supplies. Photo:
Said Khatib/Agence France-Presse -- Getty Images |
Palestinians who fled their homes at a United Nations school in Jabaliya
on Wednesday. International relief agencies have warned that the humanitarian
situation in Gaza is increasingly dire. Three-quarters of the 1.5 million
residents are currently without power, and hundreds of thousands are without
running water, international agencies have said. Photo: Mohammed Salem/Reuters |
Infantry soldiers in ground operation in the Gaza Strip. Photo: Matan Hakimi,
IDF Spokesperson IDF Spokesperson |
Anti-tank missiles hidden in a Palestinian school yard in northern Gaza Strip.
Photo: IDF Spokesperson |
IDF forces during an operation in the Gaza Strip. Photo: IDF Spokesperson |
Infantry instructor giving a lesson. Photo: IDF Spokesperson |
The call center of the Home Front Command on duty. Photo: Nomi Sigal, IDF
Spokesperson |
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