Tuesday, January 20, 2009

ABOUT GAZA (' ~ ')

The body of Palestinian boy Fares Hamoda lies in the morgue in al-Shifa hospital in Gaza city on January 11, 2009, after he was killed during Israel's military operation in the Gaza Strip. Israeli troops and armour pushed deeper into Gaza's main city on Sunday, sending panicked Palestinian civilians into flight, after Israel warned it would step up its war on Hamas which remained defiant despite a Palestinain death toll exceeding 850.


A Palestinian boy wounded in an Israeli militant operation waits for treatment at Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, Saturday, Jan. 10, 2009. Israeli forces pounded dozens of targets and edged closer to Gaza City on Saturday while southern Israel came under renewed rocket fire after one of its quietest nights in the two-week offensive against Hamas.

A Palestinian wounded by an Israeli tank shell is carried into Kamal Odwan hospital in the northern Gaza Strip January 10, 2009. Israel pounded the Gaza Strip for a 15th straight day on Saturday and militants from Hamas fired rockets back at Israel, both sides defying international efforts to put a stop to the conflict. Eight Palestinians were killed by an Israeli tank shell in Jabalya in the north of the Gaza Strip, Palestinian medics said.

Israeli police officers inspect the body of a Palestinian who was killed after trying to set a gas station on fire in Mishor Adumim near Jerusalem, Thursday Jan. 8, 2009. Israeli security forces killed the man as he tried to torch the gas station, police said.

A severely injured Palestinian man is helped as he lays on the ground moments after being hit in an Israeli missile strike outside his home in Beit Lahiya, northern Gaza Strip,Thursday, Jan. 8, 2009. Five Palestinians were killed in the strike, Palestinian medical sources said. 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

Mourners pray beside bodies of Palestinians, killed at a U.N. school, during their funeral in Jabalya in the northern Gaza Strip January 7, 2009. Israel and Hamas said they were temporarily holding their fire in the Gaza Strip on Wednesday to ease the flow of humanitarian aid and both sides said they were studying an Egyptian proposal for a ceasefire. International pressure on Israel to halt its 12-day-old assault mounted after tank shells killed 42 Palestinians at a U.N. school in the coastal enclave.

Palestinians lift a body near a United Nations school in Jabalya in the northern Gaza Strip January 6, 2009. Israeli tank fire killed up to 40 Palestinians at a United Nations school in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, medical sources at two hospitals said.

A wounded Palestinian is carried near a United Nations school in Jabalya in the northern Gaza Strip January 6, 2009. Israeli tank fire killed up to 40 Palestinians at a United Nations school in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, medical sources at two Gaza hospitals said.

A picture shows the face of a Palestinian boy found in the rubble of his destroyed house following an Israeli air strike on a three-storey house belonging to a Hamas member in the eastern Gaza City neighborhood of Zeitun on January 6, 2009. About 30 people were inside the house when it was destroyed by the air raid, neighbors said. Israeli tanks firing cannons and machine guns and supported by helicopter gunships also moved into the city of Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip before dawn, witnesses said.

A picture shows the body of a Palestinian girl found in the rubble of her destroyed house following an Israeli air strike on a three-storey house belonging to a Hamas member in the eastern Gaza City neighborhood of Zeitun on January 6, 2009. About 30 people were inside the house when it was destroyed by the air raid, neighbors said. Israeli tanks firing cannons and machine guns and supported by helicopter gunships also moved into the city of Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip before dawn, witnesses said.

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