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Gaza Strip conflict A shooting along the border fence between Israel and the Gaza Strip leaves one Palestinian dead and more than a dozen injured, testing a two-day-old truce.
Nov. 24, 2012
Israeli surfers gather in a circle offshore in the Mediterranean near the city of Ashkelon. About 30 local surfers met in the water to mark the end of a week of fierce fighting between Israeli forces and Hamas militants in the nearby Gaza Strip.
Amir Cohen
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Reuters
Nov. 24, 2012
Palestinian schoolchildren walk in debris by a damaged school in Gaza City. Schools in Gaza opened Saturday for the first time since the truce, which calls for an end to Gaza rocket fire on Israel and Israeli airstrikes on Gaza. It came after eight days of cross-border fighting, the bloodiest between Israel and Hamas in four years. The school was damaged when Israeli forces struck a nearby building.
Bernat Armangue
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Associated Press
Nov. 24, 2012
An Israeli soldier fires during clashes with Palestinians after Israeli settlers attacked villagers in the northern West Bank village of Qusra.
Jaafar Ashtiyeh
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Agence France-Presse via Getty Images
Nov. 24, 2012
A Palestinian throws back a tear gas grenade fired by Israeli troops during clashes at Qusra village near Nablus in the West Bank.
Alaa Badarneh
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European Pressphoto Agency
Nov. 24, 2012
Family members and Palestinian militants of Hamas's armed wing, the Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades, carry the body of one of their leaders, Judah Shamallah, during his funeral procession in Gaza City. Shamallah died overnight from injuries he endured from the week-long confrontation between Israel and Gaza militants that killed at least 160 people.
Marco Longari
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Agence France-Presse via Getty Images
Nov. 23, 2012
Palestinians stand close to the fence on the Gaza border as an Israeli tank is seen in the background. Israeli troops on Friday fired on a crowd at the border fence, killing one Palestinian and wounding several others, medics said.
Ibraheem Abu Mustafa
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Reuters
Nov. 23, 2012
A wounded Palestinian is treated at a hospital in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip. Friday’s shooting at the border fence with Israel was the first flare-up of violence since an Egyptian-brokered truce between Hamas and Israel was reached late Wednesday.
Ibraheem Abu Mustafa
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Reuters
Nov. 23, 2012
Palestinians gesture at Israeli soldiers near the fence between Israel and southern Gaza Strip. Israel erected the fence to stop Palestinians in Gaza from crossing into Israel and has previously warned Palestinians from approaching it.
Ibraheem Abu Mustafa
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Reuters
Nov. 23, 2012
An Israeli army vehicle rides along the security fence on the Gaza border, east of Khan Yunis, in the southern Gaza Strip.
Said Khatib
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AFP/Getty Images
Nov. 23, 2012
Palestinians wave Hamas flags during a rally celebrating what they claim to be Hamas's victory over Israel in the Gaza conflict.
Mohamad Torokman
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Reuters
Nov. 23, 2012
People stand among the rubble at the site of Hamas government offices destroyed during the Israeli airstrikes. Palestinians and Israelis tried to resume everyday life after a cease-fire was declared, ending eight days of cross-border violence.
Mohammed Saber
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European Pressphoto Agency
Nov. 23, 2012
Friends of Israeli reserve soldier Boris Yarmolnik, 28, embrace each other as they mourn during a funeral at the military cemetery in Netanya, Israel. Yarmolnik reportedly died from injuries caused by rocket fire from the Gaza Strip.
Abir Sultan
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European Pressphoto Agency
Nov. 22, 2012
Relatives cry during a funeral of Ibrahim Abu Nasr, 61, and his daughter Amira, 19, in Khan Younis in the Gaza Strip. The Palestinians were killed in an Israeli airstrike Wednesday, health officials said.
Hatem Omar
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AP
Nov. 22, 2012
A Gaza man hugs a Palestinian Islamic Jihad militant after a news conference in Gaza City. Palestinians celebrated a cease-fire agreement reached with Israel to end eight days of fighting.
Hatem Moussa
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AP
Nov. 22, 2012
A Hamas militant talks during a press conference in Gaza City. The poster behind him reads: "Gaza won" and shows the picture of Ahmed Jabari, a Hamas leader who was killed Nov.14 by an Israeli airstrike, escalating the conflict between the Palestinians and Israel.
Hatem Moussa
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AP
Nov. 22, 2012
A Palestinian man drives a flatbed truck loaded with planks of wood that will be used to repair smuggling tunnels in the southern Gaza Strip, near the border with Egypt. Israeli forces targeted the tunnels, which are used to smuggle supplies across the Egyptian border.
Ibraheem Abu Mustafa
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Reuters
Nov. 21, 2012
A Palestinian youth in Gaza City celebrates the cease-fire between Hamas and Israel in Gaza City. Israel and the Hamas militant group agreed to a cease-fire Wednesday to end eight days of the fiercest fighting in nearly four years, promising to halt attacks on each other and ease an Israeli blockade constricting the Gaza Strip.
Mohammed Salem
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Reuters
Nov. 21, 2012
During the last hour of hostilities, militants launch rockets from Gaza City as an Israeli bomb explodes on the horizon at Israel's border with the Gaza Strip.
Christopher Furlong
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Getty Images
Nov. 21, 2012
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and Egyptian Foreign Minister Mohamed Amr during a joint news conference in Cairo announcing a cease-fire agreement between Israel and Hamas.
Khaled Elfiqi
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European Pressphoto Agency
Nov. 21, 2012
An Israeli police officer fires a tear-gas canister toward Palestinian stone-throwers during clashes at Qalandiya checkpoint near the West Bank city of Ramallah.
Marko Djurica
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Reuters
Nov. 21, 2012
Palestinian protesters throw stones at Israeli soldiers and security forces in Hebron in the West Bank in a show of solidarity with Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.
Abed al-Hashlamoun
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European Pressphoto Agency
Nov. 21, 2012
Friends of Israeli soldier Yosef Nachman Partok mourn at his funeral in Jerusalem. Partok was killed Tuesday when a mortar shell fired by Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip exploded in southern Israel.
Mihal Fattal
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European Pressphoto Agency
Nov. 21, 2012
Israeli police gather after a blast ripped through a bus across from an entrance to Israel’s military headquarters in Tel Aviv.
Daniel Bar-On
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AFP/Getty Images
Nov. 21, 2012
Israeli rescue workers and paramedics move a wounded person from the site of the bombing in Tel Aviv.
Oded Balilty
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AP
Nov. 21, 2012
A Palestinian man carries the body of Mohammed Ashour, 10, at the funeral of the boy, who was killed the previous day in an Israeli airstrike on Gaza City.
Ashraf Amra
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AP
Nov. 21, 2012
A Palestinian inspects the remains on a government office building, which was destroyed in an Israeli airstrike in Gaza City.
Mohammed Saber
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European Pressphoto Agency
Nov. 21, 2012
A bridge, connecting the north and central parts of the Gaza Strip, which was destroyed overnight by an Israeli airstrike in Gaza City.
Oliver Weiken
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European Pressphoto Agency
Nov. 21, 2012
A Palestinian man and his son walk in the dust after what witnesses said was an Israeli airstrike on government offices in Gaza City.
Mohammed Salem
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Reuters
Nov. 20, 2012
Parachute flares illuminate an area in the Gaza Strip that the Israeli military targeted for an artillery barrage.
Atef Safadi
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European Pressphoto Agency
Nov. 20, 2012
A car is damaged outside a residential apartment building in the central Israeli town of Rishon LeZion that was hit by a rocket fired from Gaza. The Israeli military said Gaza-based militants fired 200 rockets Tuesday.
Abir Sultan
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European Pressphoto Agency
Nov. 20, 2012
An Israeli rescue worker is lifted by a crane as he surveys a building damaged by a rocket fired from Gaza in Rishon LeZion, near Tel Aviv.
Nir Elias
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Reuters
Nov. 20, 2012
Palestinians gather around a destroyed car that witnesses said was hit during an Israeli airstrike in Gaza City. Israel pounded the densely populated Gaza Strip throughout the day from the air and the sea.
Ali Hassan
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Reuters
Nov. 21, 2012
Blood leaks from under the door of the al-Shifa hospital morgue in Gaza City.
Marco Longari
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AFP/Getty Images
Nov. 20, 2012
A Palestinian youth throws a stone toward Israeli soldiers during clashes in the West Bank city of Hebron.
Ammar Awad
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Reuters
Nov. 20, 2012
Palestinians mourners cry during the funeral of Salem Paul Sweliem in Gaza City. According to the family, the 52-year-old Greek Orthodox Christian carpenter was killed during an Israeli airstrike on a high-rise building.
Bernat Armangue
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AP
Nov. 20, 2012
A Palestinian boy walks past a destroyed building on which a painting depicting the Dome of the Rock can still be seen after what witnesses said was an Israeli airstrike in Gaza City. The Dome of the Rock is a Muslim shrine located in Jerusalem.
Mohammed Salem
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Reuters
Nov. 20, 2012
Sapir Hachmon is consoled by her boyfriend as she reacts while entering her bedroom, which was destroyed when a rocket fired from Gaza hit and struck a hole in her family's house in Beersheba, Israel.
Abir Sultan
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European Pressphoto Agency
Nov. 20, 2012
Ronit Hachmon inspects her house after it was hit by a rocket fired from the Gaza Strip in Beersheba, Israel.
Uriel Sinai
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Getty Images
Nov. 20, 2012
Palestinians stand at the destroyed house of the Al-Khole family after an Israeli airstrike in Gaza City.
Mohammed Saber
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European Pressphoto Agency
Nov. 20, 2012
Palestinians inspect the destroyed house of the Al-Khole family after an Israeli airstrike in Gaza City.
Mohammed Saber
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European Pressphoto Agency
Nov. 20, 2012
An Israeli soldier evacuates a young girl from a site hit by a rocket launched by Palestinian militants from the Gaza Strip in Beersheba, Israel.
Danny Sasson
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AFP/Getty Images
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