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Digging Out of the Rubble in Gaza

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• Jan. 24: Palestinian school girls walk to school in Gaza. Schools reopened in Gaza on Saturday after Israel's devastating three-week war.
• Jan. 24: Palestinian boy Mohammed Kutkut, 14, right, covers his face as he sits next to the name sign of his friend Ahed Qaddas, who was killed.
• Jan. 23: Backdropped by Israel's separation barrier, an Israeli border police officer, right, fires a tear gas canister at Palestinian stonethrowers.
• Jan. 22: A fisherman sits next to nets as he smokes a cigarette on a pier in the harbor at the Shati refugee camp in Gaza City. Fishing is one of the main sources of food and income for many people in the area but it remains a risky business with Israeli gunboats still enforcing a sea blockade and firing shells into Gaza's shore line, despite the cease-fire.
• Jan. 22: A Palestinian woman stands next to her grandchildren in the rubble of their house that was destroyed in the recent Israeli army offensive in Jebaliya, northern Gaza Strip. U.N. humanitarian chief John Holmes, on the first day of a five-day trip to the region, called the steep Palestinian casualty toll "extremely shocking" and suggested the United Nations might ask Israel to compensate it for wartime damage to U.N. compounds in Gaza, but that he was looking at immediate humanitarian needs and thinking about longer-term reconstruction in Gaza.
• Jan. 22: A fisherman and his sons clean their upturned fishing boat in the harbor in the Shati refugee camp in Gaza City, in the Gaza strip. On Thursday, a Palestinian man and a girl were wounded by one of the shells which hit a house in the camp, according to a Palestinian medical official.
• Jan. 22: A Palestinian youth holds fake flowers that he salvaged from the rubble of his family's house that was destroyed in the recent Israeli army offensive in the eastern part of Jebaliya, in the northern Gaza Strip.
• Jan. 22: Palestinians gather around a fire as they burn rubbish taken from their house that was damaged in the recent Israeli army offensive in Beit Lahiya, in the northern Gaza Strip.
• Jan. 22: Smoke from a gasoline tank which accidentally caught fire is seen amidst tents covering work on the repair of old smuggling tunnels, as well as the construction of new ones, that run under the border between Egypt and the southern Gaza Strip town of Rafah. Gaza smugglers were actively working at their tunnels on Thursday, bringing in food, fuel and other goods barely four days after Israel stopped dumping hundreds of tons of missiles and bombs on Gaza's southern border with Egypt.
• Jan. 22: Members of a Palestinian family walks past rubble of an apartment building, destroyed by Israel's military operations in Rafah, southern Gaza Strip, close to the border with Egypt.
• Jan. 22: Palestinians are seen near a fire on the rubble of destroyed houses in Beit Lahia, northern Gaza strip.
• Jan. 22: A Palestinian boy stands next to a bullet riddled wall and a graffiti showing a mosque with an Israeli flag in a partly destroyed apartment in Jebaliya, northern Gaza strip. The Israeli Army used that apartment as a base and left sprayed several graffiti pictures on the walls.
• Jan. 22: Palestinians work on constructing new and repairing old smuggling tunnels, damaged during the Israeli military operation, that run under the border between Egypt and the southern Gaza Strip town of Rafah.