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• March 1: A Palestinian stands up outside a tent, set up to give shelter to people who lost their houses, in the devastated area of east Jebaliya, northern Gaza Strip.
• March 1: A Palestinian woman keeps herself warm around an open fire next to a destroyed house, in the devastated area of east Jebaliya.
• March 1: Middle East Envoy and former British Prime Minister Tony Blair looks at a display of rockets that have been fired at Israeli communities by Palestinian militants in Gaza, during a visit to Sderot.
• March 1: Outgoing Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, second from right, arrives at the weekly cabinet meeting in Jerusalem.
• Feb. 2: A Palestinian boy looks inside a hole over the entrance to a smuggling tunnel, caused by an Israeli missile strike.
• Feb. 2: Palestinian fire-fighters use water to clean blood from the the street as Palestinians gather around a car hit in an Israeli missile strike, in the Rafah refugee camp, southern Gaza Strip.
• Feb. 2: Palestinians inspect the damage to a Hamas security complex, destroyed after an Israeli air strike, on the outskirts of Gaza City
• Jan. 19: Israeli soldiers patrol near the Israel-Gaza border.
• Jan 18: An Israeli soldier jumps down from a tank at a staging area on the Israel-Gaza border.
• Jan. 18: Israeli soldiers celebrate after leaving the Gaza Strip into Israel.
• Jan. 18: A Palestinian man looks out his window, damaged in the Israeli army operation in Gaza, in Rafah southern Gaza Strip.
• Jan. 18: An Israeli left-wing Peace Now activist holds a banner during a demonstration outside Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's residence in Jerusalem as a meeting between him and European leaders takes place inside.
• Jan. 17: Smoke from Israeli bombardments is seen in the Gaza Strip during an army operation as seen from the Israeli side of the border with Gaza. Israel bombarded dozens of Hamas targets Saturday hours before a government vote on an Egyptian brokered cease-fire, prompting Egypt to demand an immediate halt to a 3-week-old Gaza offensive.
• Jan. 17: A Palestinian medic runs as he carries a child who was injured in an Israeli army operation into the Kamal Adwan hospital in Beit Lahiya, northern Gaza Strip.
• Jan. 17: A man walks down a destroyed street in the Salahaddin street area of Rafah, southern Gaza Strip. Israel bombarded dozens of Hamas targets Saturday hours before a government vote on an Egyptian brokered cease-fire, prompting Egypt to demand an immediate halt to a 3-week-old Gaza offensive.
• Jan 16: A Lebanese child holds a candle as she stands next to a woman holding a poster of Palestinian children.
• Jan 16: An explosion is seen from Israeli artillery during an Israeli military operation in the northern Gaza Strip as seen from the Israeli side of the border.
• Jan 16: A Palestinian firefighter inspects the damage at the food storage area of the United Nations headquarters after it was hit during the Israeli military operation in Gaza City.
• Jan 16: A young Palestinian supporter of Hamas drags a burning tire during clashes following a protest against Israel's military operations in the Gaza Strip.
• Jan 16: A Palestinian walks between destroyed ambulances after Israeli military operations in Gaza City.
• Jan 16: A Palestinian youth burns an Israeli flag during a protest against Israel's military operation in Gaza.
• Jan 16: A young Palestinian supporter of Hamas drags a burning tire during clashes following a protest against Israel's military operations in the Gaza Strip.
• Jan 16: Flares and smoke are seen in front of a mosque in the Gaza Strip during an Israeli army operation as seen from the Israel side of the border with Gaza.
• Jan 16: Israeli border police officers walk next to part of the separation wall, during minor clashes with Palestinian demonstrators protesting against Israel's military operation in Gaza.
• Jan 16: Israeli soldiers show their guns as they celebrate their return from the Gaza Strip on the Israeli side of the borde.
• Jan 16: Palestinian drives his car through burning tires left by Palestinian stone-throwers during clashes with Israeli troops, which erupted following a demonstration against Israel's military operations in Gaza.
• Jan 16: Palestinians protest against Israel's military operation in Gaza, in the center of the West Bank city of Nablus.
• Jan 16: Palestinians react during the funeral of Mosub Daana, who was shot and killed by Israeli troops during clashes at a rally by Hamas supporters against Israel's military operation in Gaza.
• Jan. 14: Israeli soldiers stand on a tank as they prepare for combat missions in Gaza while gathering on the Israel-Gaza border during Israel's military offensive.
• Jan. 14: Israeli soldiers relax on the grass at a park in Sderot, southern Israel. Israel showed no signs of slowing its 19-day offensive against Gaza's Hamas rulers, striking some 60 targets on Wednesday.
• Jan. 14: Smoke caused by explosions from Israeli military operations is seen over Gaza as seen from the Israel-Gaza Border. Israeli aircraft pounded militants' rocket-launching pads, weapons arsenals and dozens of arms smuggling tunnels near the Gaza-Egypt border, the military said Wednesday, as U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon headed to the region to lend his weight to diplomatic efforts to wrest an end to the fighting.
• Jan. 14: Israeli soldiers stand on a tank at a staging area near Israel's border with Gaza, in southern Israel.
• Jan. 14: An Israeli soldier looks through binoculars towards the Gaza Strip, from a staging area near Israel's border with Gaza, in southern Israel.
• Jan. 14: An Israeli soldier points towards the Gaza Strip as he stands on an armored vehicles preparing for combat missions in Gaza while gathering on the Israel-Gaza border during Israel's military offensive in the early morning.
• Jan. 14: A Palestinian moves a broken tomb stone as others look inside a crater caused by an Israeli strike at the damaged Sheik Radwan cemetery, following Israeli military operations in Gaza City.
• Jan. 14: Palestinians inspect the damage at a building following Israeli military operations, in the Sheikh Radwan neighborhood in Gaza City.
• Jan. 14: Palestinians extinguish fire at a building following an explosion caused by Israeli military operations in Gaza city.
• Jan. 13: An Israeli Army soldier gets his tank ready in a staging area near Israel's border with Gaza. Israeli troops advanced into Gaza suburbs for the first time early Tuesday, residents said, hours after Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert warned Islamic militants that they face an "iron fist" unless they agree to Israeli terms for an end to war in the Gaza Strip.
• Jan. 13: Palestinians react after hearing the news about their dead relatives, outside the morgue in Kamal Adwan hospital in the northern Gaza Strip town of Beit Lahiya.
• Jan. 13: A Palestinian family buries a loved one, Kamel, 22, killed in an Israeli strike Tuesday, over the body of Kamel's brother Moyhideen, killed in an Israeli air strike last May, at Sheikh Radwan cemetery in Gaza City. In crowded Gaza, relatives have always struggled to bury their dead. But Israel's shelling and deep ground incursion into the territory to crush militant group Hamas mean residents can't reach Martyrs Cemetery, Gaza City's only open graveyard on its eastern border with Israel, at a time when there's a rush of people needing burial.
• Jan. 12: Fares al-Dali drinks tea as he sits on a pile of wood and cartons in a house in the Shati refugee camp in Gaza City. In the al-Dali family's two-room shack in the Shati refugee camp, 21 people - half of them relatives who fled the fighting - take turns sleeping because the family doesn't have enough mattresses. For lack of fuel, they cook on trash fires - paper and cartons collected in the neighborhood.
• Jan. 12: A Palestinian girl takes part in a candlelit vigil in a show of mourning and support for those who have died in Gaza, in the West Bank city of Ramallah. Israeli warplanes pounded the homes of Hamas leaders and ground troops edged closer to the Gaza Strip's densely populated urban center Monday, as Israel weighed a decision to escalate its offensive.
• Jan. 12: Israeli reserve soldiers prepare to enter Gaza on a combat mission at a staging area near Israel's border with the Gaza Strip.
• Jan. 12: Israeli army armored vehicles drive towards Israel's border with the Gaza Strip on a combat mission. Israeli warplanes pounded the homes of Hamas leaders in the Gaza Strip and ground troops edged ever closer to the territory's densely-populated urban center Monday but reported casualties were low, an indication that Hamas was largely avoiding pitched battles with the advancing Israelis.
• Jan. 11: Israeli soldiers sit on top of an armored vehicle as smoke rises from Gaza near Israel's border with the Gaza Strip. Israeli ground troops made their deepest advance into the Gaza Strip's most heavily populated area on Sunday, encountering fierce resistance from Islamic Hamas fighters as residents of the war-ravaged territory braced for a sharp escalation in fighting in defiance of global calls for a cease-fire.
• Jan. 11: Israelis, suffering from shock, are helped by a medic after a rocket fired from the Gaza Strip hit the southern town of Sderot. Israeli troops battled Palestinian gunmen in a suburb of Gaza City on Sunday morning, waging one of their fiercest ground battles so far as Israel's military inched closer to Gaza's main population centers and residents braced for an expansion of the offensive.
• Jan. 11: Israeli medics gather at the scene where a rocket fired by Palestinian militants in Gaza hit the southern Israeli city of Sderot. Israeli troops battled Palestinian gunmen in a suburb of Gaza City Sunday in one of the fiercest ground battles so far as Israel's military inched toward Gaza's population centers and residents braced for an expansion of the offensive.
• Jan. 11: Israeli reserve soldiers participate in a training session simulating urban warfare in preparations for combat missions in the Gaza Strip,at the Zeelim army base, southern Israel. Israeli troops battled Palestinian gunmen in a suburb of Gaza City Sunday in one of the fiercest ground battles so far as Israel's military inched toward Gaza's population centers and residents braced for an expansion of the offensive.
• Jan. 11: Palestinian Adel Khalefa is treated for burns at Gaza City's Shifa hospital on Sunday. Human Rights Watch said Sunday that Israel's military has fired artillery shells packed with the incendiary agent white phosphorus over populated areas of Gaza, putting civilians at risk. The rights group, however, said it had no way to confirm whether people were injured by the substance.
• Jan. 11: Palestinian Akram Abu Roka is treated for burns at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip. The hospital's chief doctor said the injuries might have been caused by munitions containing white phosphorus. Human Rights Watch said Sunday that Israel's military has fired artillery shells packed with the incendiary agent over populated areas of Gaza, putting civilians at risk.
• Jan. 9: A Palestinian man rushes a child wounded in an Israeli army operation into hospital in Beit Lahiya, northern Gaza Strip.
• Jan. 9: A Palestinian youth uses a sling-shot to hurl a stone from behind a burning tire barricade during clashes with Israeli troops at a protest against Israel's military operations in the Gaza Strip, in the West Bank village of A-Ram, on the outskirts of Jerusalem.
• Jan. 9: A Palestinian boy drags a piece of concrete salvaged from a home that was destroyed in an Israeli air strike in the Rafah refugee camp, southern Gaza Strip.
• Jan. 9: Palestinian protesters throw stones during a protest against Israel's military operation in the Gaza Strip, in the West Bank village of Baqa near Tulkarem.
• Jan. 9: The sky is illuminated by explosions from Israeli military operations over the outskirts of Gaza City as seen from the Israel-Gaza Border.
• Jan. 9: With the Dome of The Rock Mosque in the background, Israeli riot police line-up during clashes with Palestinians as part of a protest against Israel's military operations in the Gaza Strip, in Jerusalem.
• Jan. 8: Palestinian relatives of a father and four of his sons from the Khalout family, who were killed in an Israeli army operation, react in the family house during their funeral in Beit Lahiya in the northern Gaza Strip. Lebanese militants fired at least three rockets into northern Israel early Thursday, threatening to open a new front for the Jewish state as it pushed forward with a bloody offensive in the Gaza Strip that has killed nearly 700 people.
• Jan. 8: Smoke and fire caused by explosions from Israeli military operations is seen on the outskirts of Gaza City.
• Jan. 8: Palestinian relatives of a father and four of his sons from the Khalout family who were killed in an Israeli army operation, react in the family house during their funeral in Beit Lahiya in the northern Gaza Strip.
• Jan. 8: A man is seen on a rooftop as smoke rises after an Israeli air strike that hit along the Egyptian border with Gaza, in Rafah, Egypt, Thursday.
• Jan. 8: Fire and smoke is seen from Israeli military operations in Gaza City.
• Jan. 8: Palestinian children who fled their homes during Israeli army operations walk inside a United Nations school where they are staying, in the Shati refugee camp, in Gaza City.
• Jan. 8: An Israeli soldier prays on top a tank at a staging area along the Israel-Gaza Border. Israel resumed its Gaza offensive Wednesday after a three-hour lull to allow delivery of humanitarian aid, bombing heavily around suspected smuggling tunnels near the border with Egypt. Despite the heavy fighting, strides appeared to being made on the diplomatic front with the U.S. throwing its weight behind a deal being brokered by France and Egypt.
• Jan. 8: Mads Gilbert, a Norwegian doctor who arrived at Gaza's Shifa hospital as a volunteer, left, treats a Palestinian patient in Gaza City. The Norwegian medical doctor was allowed to cross into Gaza last week to assist with casualties in Israel's military operations in Gaza.
• Jan. 8: A toy is stained with red paint and is held by a man during a protest in Bucharest, Romania. Some hundreds gathered outside the Romanian parliament building to protest against the ongoing Israeli military operation in Gaza.
• Jan. 8: A police robot checks if the body of a Palestinian who was killed after trying to set a gas station on fire is carrying explosives, in Mishor Adumim near Jerusalem.
• Jan. 8: A man inspecting damage is seen through a hole made by a rocket in the roof of a retirement home after a rocket fired by Lebanese militants hit the home, in the northern Israeli town of Nahariya.
• Jan. 8: Palestinian demonstrators prepare to hurl stones at Israeli soldiers, during a demonstration against Israel's military operation in Gaza, in the West Bank village of Bilin, near Ramallah.
• Jan. 7: An Israeli soldier sits in an armored vehicle before heading into the Gaza Strip, near Israel's border with Gaza.
• Jan. 7: An Israeli woman lays on the floor and covers the heads of her two children as an alarm is heard warning of incoming rockets fired by Palestinian militants in Gaza, in Kfar Azza, southern Israel.
• Jan. 7: Palestinians walk in the rubble of a building following an Israeli airstrike in the Rafah refugee camp, southern Gaza.
• Jan. 7: An Israeli soldier leans against artillery shells while reading the newspaper near the Israeli Gaza border.
• Jan. 7: Israeli police officers try to clear an area where a rocket fired by Palestinians militants from inside Gaza strip hit the southern Israeli town of Beersheba, southern Israel.
• Jan. 7: A Palestinian man carries his son wounded in Israeli army operations into Shifa hospital in Gaza City.
• Jan. 7: Israeli soldiers mourn during the funeral of their comrade Staff Sgt. Alex Mashavisky in the military cemetery of the southern Israeli town of Beersheba.
• Jan. 6: A Palestinian medic walks with a wounded girl who, according to Palestinian medical sources, was injured in Israeli forces' operations in Gaza, in Shifa hospital in Gaza City.
• Jan. 6: Smoke rises as the sun sets in the northern Gaza Strip. Israeli tank shells hit a U.N. school where civilians had taken shelter, medical officials said.
• Jan. 6: Smoke rises as the sun sets in the northern Gaza Strip. Israeli tank shells hit a U.N. school where civilians had taken shelter, medical officials said.
• Jan. 6: Smoke rises after a rocket fired by Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip hits in an open space near Israel's border with Gaza, in southern Israel.
• Jan. 6: Palestinians dig out the body of a young boy from the rubble of a house belonging to the Al Dayah family that collapsed following Israeli forces' operations in Gaza City.
• Jan. 6: Flares and smoke caused by explosions from Israeli forces' operations in Gaza are seen from the Israeli side, in southern Israel.
• Jan. 6: Palestinians lift a body near a United Nations school in Jabalya in the northern Gaza Strip.
• Jan. 6: An Israeli mobile artillery unit fires a shell towards Gaza from its position outside the central Gaza Strip.
• Jan. 5: An Israeli soldier is hit by an empty artillery shell, thrown by a comrade, at their position outside the Gaza Strip, in southern Israel. Israeli forces pounded Gaza Strip houses, mosques and smuggling tunnels on Monday from the air, land and sea, killing at least seven children as they pressed a bruising offensive against Palestinian militants.
• Jan. 5: An Israeli soldier wounded in the Gaza Strip is unloaded from an army helicopter as it arrives at Soroka Hospital in the southern Israeli town of Beersheba. The expansion of Israel's offensive against Gaza's Hamas rulers into ground battles and artillery salvos is taking a heavier toll on the civilians of the crowded sliver of land, including three toddlers killed Monday by the blast of a crashing shell.
• Jan. 5: An Israeli soldier directs a mobile artillery unit near Israel's border with the Gaza Strip, in southern Israel. Israeli forces pounded Gaza Strip houses, mosques and smuggling tunnels on Monday from the air, land and sea, killing at least seven children as they pressed a bruising offensive against Palestinian militants.
• Jan. 5: Palestinian children, who according to Palestinian medical sources, were killed in an Israeli strike are seen at the morgue of Shifa Hospital in Gaza City. The expansion of Israel's offensive against Gaza's Hamas rulers into ground battles and artillery salvos is taking a heavier toll on the civilians of the crowded sliver of land, including three toddlers killed Monday by the blast of a crashing shell.
• Jan. 5: A Palestinian man holds his head in his hands as he reacts at the Shifa Hospital in Gaza City. Israeli forces pounded Gaza Strip houses, mosques and smuggling tunnels on Monday from the air, land and sea, killing at least seven children as they pressed a bruising offensive against Palestinian militants.
• Jan. 5: Palestinian medics wheel a wounded man who according to Palestinian medical sources was hurt in an Israeli strike, into Shifa hospital in Gaza City. Israeli forces pounded Gaza Strip houses, mosques and smuggling tunnels on Monday from the air, land and sea, killing at least seven children as they pressed a bruising offensive against Palestinian militants.
• Jan. 5: An Israeli soldier peers out of his tank as he moves towards the Gaza Strip, in southern Israel. Israeli forces pounded Gaza Strip houses, mosques and smuggling tunnels on Monday from the air, land and sea, killing at least seven children as they pressed a bruising offensive against Palestinian militants.
• Jan. 5: Palestinians who fled their homes from Israeli forces' operations gather in an UNRWA school building in Jabaliya refugee camp, northern Gaza Strip. Israeli forces pounded Gaza Strip houses, mosques and smuggling tunnels on Monday from the air, land and sea, killing at least seven children as they pressed a bruising offensive against Palestinian militants.
• Ja. 5: An Israeli woman walks under the damaged roof of a temporarily closed food market minutes after a rocket fired by Palestinians militants from Gaza hit Sderot, southern Israel. Israeli forces pounded Gaza Strip houses, mosques and tunnels on Monday from the air, land and sea, consolidating their grip in the territory's northern half without stopping the rocket fire that provoked Israel's bruising, 10-day-old offensive.
• Jan. 5: An Israeli attack helicopter fires a self-protection flare, top left, and a missile, bottom, towards targets in Gaza as seen from the border between Israel and the Gaza Strip. Israeli forces pounded Gaza Strip houses, mosques and tunnels Monday from the air, land and sea, killing at least seven children and six other civilians, as they consolidated a bruising offensive against Palestinian militants.
• Jan. 5: Palestinians walk past a destroyed mosque in Beit Hanoun, northern Gaza Strip. Israeli forces pounded Gaza Strip houses, mosques and smuggling tunnels on Monday from the air, land and sea, killing at least seven children as they pressed a bruising offensive against Palestinian militants.
• Jan. 5: A Palestinian medic carries the body of a baby allegedly killed by an Israeli tank shell, in Shifa Hospital in Gaza City. Israeli forces pounded Gaza Strip houses, mosques and smuggling tunnels on Monday from the air, land and sea, killing at least seven children as they pressed a bruising offensive against Palestinian militants.
• Jan. 5: A Palestinian woman walks down the street as smoke caused by explosions from Israeli forces' operations rises over a building in Rafah, southern Gaza Strip. Israeli forces pounded Gaza Strip houses, mosques and smuggling tunnels on Monday from the air, land and sea, killing at least seven children as they pressed a bruising offensive against Palestinian militants.
• Jan. 5: Palestinians carry the bodies of three toddlers Ahmed, Mohamed, and Issa Samouni, who according to Palestinian medical sources were killed in an Israeli strike, during their funeral in Gaza City. Israeli forces pounded Gaza Strip houses, mosques and smuggling tunnels on Monday from the air, land and sea, killing at least seven children as they pressed a bruising offensive against Palestinian militants.
• Jan. 5: Israeli soldiers drive their tank on the border between Israel and the Gaza Strip. Israeli forces pounded Gaza Strip houses, mosques and tunnels Monday from the air, land and sea, killing at least seven children and six other civilians, as they consolidated a bruising offensive against Palestinian militants.
• Jan. 5: Palestinians lay down the bodies of Ahmed, center foreground, and Mohamed Samouni, right, who according to Palestinian medical sources were killed in an Israeli strike, during their funeral in Gaza City. Israeli forces pounded Gaza Strip houses, mosques and smuggling tunnels on Monday from the air, land and sea, killing at least seven children as they pressed a bruising offensive against Palestinian militants.
• Jan. 4: An Israeli gunner covers his ears as a mobile artillery piece fires at a target in the Gaza Strip, on the Israel-Gaza border. Israel seized control of high-rise buildings and attacked houses, mosques and smuggling tunnels as it pressed forward with its offensive against the Gaza Strip's Hamas rulers on Monday, even as a stream of European leaders headed for the region to press for a truce.
• Jan. 4: A Palestinian man shouts as he kneels over a severely wounded man in the street after an Israel strike in Gaza City.
• Jan. 4: A Palestinian man shouts as he kneels over a severely wounded man in the street after an Israel strike in Gaza City.
• Jan. 4: A Palestinian man shouts as he kneels over a severely wounded man, foreground, as another man tries to help another in Gaza City.
• Jan. 4: An Israeli army mobile artillery piece fires towards targets in the southern Gaza Strip, on the Israel side of the border with Gaza.
• Jan. 4: Black smoke billows in the background as Israeli infantry soldiers take position on the border before entering the Gaza Strip.
• Jan. 4: Smoke caused by explosions rises over Gaza City.
• Jan. 3: Israel infantry soldiers gather on the border just before leaving Israel for the northern Gaza Strip.
• Jan. 3: Israel infantry soldiers gather on the border just before leaving Israel for the northern Gaza Strip.
• Jan. 3: An explosion and illumination flares fired by Israeli forces are seen above the northern Gaza Strip from the Israeli side of the border with Gaza.
• Jan. 3: Israeli soldiers advance near the border with northern Gaza during a ground operation by the Israeli army.
• Jan. 3: Israeli soldiers advance near the border with northern Gaza during a ground operation by the Israeli army.
• Jan. 3: Israeli soldiers advance near the border with northern Gaza during a ground operation by the Israeli army.
• Jan. 3: A fire burns following an Israeli airstrike in Gaza City.
• Jan. 3: Israel infantry soldiers walk in formation on the border as they leave Israel for the northern Gaza Strip.
• Jan. 3: Israeli tanks re-position themselves along the border with the Gaza Strip.
• Jan. 3: Smoke rises following an Israeli airstrike on an area known to have smuggling tunnels in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip on the border with Egypt.
• Jan. 3: An Israeli army mobile artillery piece fires towards targets in the southern Gaza Strip, on the Israel side of the border with Gaza.
• Jan. 3: Smoke caused by shells fired by the Israeli military is seen in the northern Gaza Strip from the Israeli side of the border with Gaza.
• Jan. 3: Shells fired by the Israeli military explode in the northern Gaza Strip as seen from the Israeli side of the border with Gaza.
• Jan. 3: A shell fired by the Israeli military explodes in the northern Gaza Strip as seen from the Israeli side of the border with Gaza.
• Jan. 3: An Israeli Arab man holds up a doll as he joins a demonstration of tens of thousands of Israeli Arabs protesting against Israel's military operation in Gaza, in the northern Israeli town of Sakhnin.
• Jan. 3: An Israeli soldier cleans his weapon at a staging area on the Israel-Gaza border.
• Jan. 3: An Israeli tank drives at a staging area on the Israel-Gaza border.
• Jan. 3: An explosion from an Israeli airstrike in the northern Gaza Strip is seen from the Israel side of the border with Gaza.