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Fighting in Gaza As Israel continues its air campaign in the Gaza Strip and militants continue to lob artillery rounds into Israel, civilians on both sides suffer.
Nov.19, 2012
A Palestinian firefighter tries to extinguish a fire after an Israeli airstrike on a floor in a building that houses international media offices in Gaza City.
Suhaib Salem
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Reuters
Nov. 19, 2012
People stand in front of a high-rise housing media organizations in Gaza City. Israeli military forces struck the building for the second time in two days. Hamas TV station al-Aqsa is on the top floor.
Hatem Moussa
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AP
Nov. 19, 2012
A Israeli police sapper inspects a Grad missile, launched by Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip, which landed without exploding in an apartment complex in the southern Israeli town of Ashkelon. The explosive element of the missile, which was found about 20 meter away among trees, was destroyed in a controlled explosion.
Jim Hollander
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European Pressphoto Agency
Nov. 19, 2012
Smoke rises following an Israeli attack on smuggling tunnels on the border between Egypt and Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip.
Eyad Baba
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AP
Nov. 19, 2012
An Israeli girl holds her sister as they take cover in a large concrete pipe used as a bomb shelter during a rocket attack from the Gaza Strip in Nitzan, Israel.
Uriel Sinai
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Getty Images
Nov. 19, 2012
Israelis take cover in a large concrete pipe used as a bomb shelter during a rocket attack from the Gaza Strip in Nitzan, Israel.
Uriel Sinai
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Getty Images
Nov. 19, 2012
Palestinians gather around a destroyed house after an Israeli airstrike in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip.
Ibraheem Abu Mustafa
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Reuters
Nov. 19, 2012
A Palestinian woman is helped by a paramedic out of her building that was damaged during an Israeli air raid on a nearby sporting center in Gaza City.
Marco Longari
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AFP/Getty Images
Nov. 19, 2012
A Palestinian inspects the damage to a soccer stadium after an Israeli airstrike in Gaza City.
Ahmed Zakot
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Reuters
Nov. 19, 2012
Israeli soldiers perform their morning prayers in a deployment area on Israel's border with the Gaza Strip.
Uriel Sinai
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Getty Images
Nov. 19, 2012
An Israeli soldier wearing a prayer shawl prays near a tank staging area in southern Israel along the border with the Gaza Strip.
Abir Sultan
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European Pressphoto Agency
Nov. 19, 2012
Israeli soldiers sleep next to armored personnel carriers at an Israeli army deployment area near the Israel-Gaza Strip border as they prepare for a potential ground operation in the Palestinian coastal enclave.
Menahem Kahana
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AFP/Getty Images
Nov. 18, 2012
Smoke rises after an Israeli airstrike in Gaza City. The Israeli military widened its range of targets in the Gaza Strip on Sunday to include the media operations of the Palestinian territory's Hamas rulers, sending its aircraft to attack two buildings used by Hamas and foreign media outlets.
Bernat Armangue
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AP
Nov. 18, 2012
The Gaza City building that houses the office of the Hamas television channel al-Aqsa and other media outlets was targeted in an Israeli airstrike. Israel bombed militant targets in Gaza for a fifth straight day Sunday as it prepared for a possible ground invasion.
Majdi Fathi
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Reuters
Nov. 18, 2012
A Palestinian man carries the body of a child from the rubble after an Israeli missile struck a family's home in Gaza City, killing a mother and her four children, ages 10, 6, 2 and 1, as well as five other relatives.
Mahmud Hams
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AFP/Getty Images
Nov. 18, 2012
A Palestinian man cries next to the body of a relative in the morgue of al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City. The Health Ministry in Gaza said at least 70 people have been killed and 660 have been wounded in the densely populated Gaza Strip since Wednesday.
Majed Hamdan
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AP
Nov. 18, 2012
Palestinians stand in the rubble of the Dallu family residence after an Israeli airstrike in Gaza City. The attack, which killed 10 members of the family, was the single deadliest strike of the Israeli campaign.
Hatem Moussa
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AP
Nov. 18, 2012
Rescuers pull out a member of the Abdel Aal family, whose house collapsed during an Israeli airstrike in Gaza's Tufah neighborhood.
Majed Hamdan
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AP
Nov. 18, 2012
A relative of four young siblings of the Dallu family, who were killed in an Israeli airstrike, weeps as he stands next to their bodies in a hospital in Gaza City. Gen. Relik Shafir of the Israeli air force told reporters Sunday that Israel has taken “great pains” to avoid civilian casualties but acknowledged that is a difficult task “because Hamas fires from populated areas.”
Mohammed Salem
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Reuters
Nov. 18, 2012
A Palestinian man kisses the hand of a dead relative in the morgue of al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City. President Obama on Sunday reiterated U.S. support for Israel’s right of self-defense but said he was hopeful that the fighting could end through diplomacy.
Majed Hamdan
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AP
Nov. 18, 2012
A Palestinian man takes a breather while looking for people buried under a building destroyed by an Israeli airstrike in Gaza City.
Oliver Weiken
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European Pressphoto Agency
Nov. 18, 2012
Residents in the southern Israeli town of Ofakim inspect damage inflicted on a home by a rocket launched by militants in the Gaza Strip. Since Wednesday, Gaza-based militants have fired about 830 rounds of artillery that either slammed into Israel or were intercepted, according to the Israeli military.
Menahem Kahana
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AFP/Getty Images
Nov. 18, 2012
A woman stands outside a house in Ashkelon, southern Israel, that was damaged by a rocket fired by Palestinian militants from Gaza Strip.
Tsafrir Abayov
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AP
Nov. 18, 2012
An Israeli soldier fires tear gas at Palestinians protesting in the West Bank city of Hebron to show their solidarity with Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, which is under intense bombardment by Israel.
Abed al-Hashlamoun
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European Pressphoto Agency
Nov. 18, 2012
An Israeli shoots a video at the scene after a rocket fired by Palestinian militants based in Gaza landed in the southern city of Ashdod.
Nir Elias
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Reuters
Nov. 18, 2012
Israeli soldiers keep tanks at the ready near the border with the Gaza Strip. Israel has activated reservists for a possible ground incursion into Gaza, which could markedly intensify the fighting and increase the death toll.
Nir Elias
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Reuters
Nov. 18, 2012
Israeli soldiers inside a rest area along the border with the Gaza Strip watch television footage showing the Iron Dome missile interceptor system as it shoots down two rockets fired moments earlier by Palestinian militants.
Jim Hollander
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European Pressphoto Agency
Nov. 18, 2012
A demonstrator with his face painted in the colors of the Palestinian flag takes part in a rally in Sanaa, Yemen, condemning Israel's Gaza offensive.
Yahya Arhab
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European Pressphoto Agency
Nov. 18, 2012
A Palestinian holds a Hamas flag as he climbs a street pole during clashes with Israeli security forces outside Ofer prison near the West Bank city of Ramallah. The clashes broke out after a protest against Israel's military operation in the Gaza Strip.
Mohamad Torokman
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Reuters
Nov. 18, 2012
A Palestinian protester hurls stones at Israeli soldiers during a protest at a checkpoint near Nablus, the West Bank, against Israel's operations in the Gaza Strip.
Alaa Badarneh
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European Pressphoto Agency
Nov, 18, 2012
A Palestinian man hides during a protest outside Ofer, an Israeli military prison near the West Bank city of Ramallah, against Israel's operations in the Gaza Strip. Cease-fire negotiations in Cairo appeared to make little headway Sunday.
Majdi Mohammed
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AP
Nov. 18, 2012
Two Palestinian children look through the rubble of their destroyed house after an Israeli airstrike in Beit Lahiya, in the northern Gaza Strip.
Mohammed Saber
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European Pressphoto Agency
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