PHOTOS: Israel escalates military campaign against Hamas in Gaza
July 29, 2014
Palestinians carry their belongings after salvaging them from their destroyed houses in the heavily bombed town of Beit Hanoun, Gaza Strip, close to the Israeli border, Friday, Aug. 1, 2014. A three-day Gaza cease-fire that began Friday quickly unraveled, with Israel and Hamas accusing each other of violating the truce. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis) ( APTOPIX Mideast Israel Palestinians )
Palestinian onlookers and motorists pause to inspect a bomb from the Israeli military lying unexploded on the main road in Deir el-Balah in the central Gaza Strip, Friday, Aug. 1, 2014. (AP Photo/Adel Hana) ( APTOPIX Mideast Israel Palestinians )
A Palestinian man reacts after seeing the ruins of houses caused by Israeli strikes in the village of Khuzaa, southern Gaza Strip, close to the Israeli border, Friday, Aug. 1, 2014. A three-day Gaza cease-fire that began Friday quickly unraveled, with Israel and Hamas accusing each other of violating the truce. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra) ( Mideast Israel Palestinians )
Palestinians react upon their arrival at al-Najar hospital in Rafah in the southern of Gaza strip, following an Israeli military strike on August 1, 2014. Egypt told Palestinian officials it is delaying ceasefire talks in Cairo after Israel said militants captured one of its soldiers in Gaza, a senior Islamic Jihad official said. AFP PHOTO / BILAL TELAWI/AFP/Getty Images ( 532114363 )
A Palestinian man covers his face to protect him from the smoke billowing from a milk factory hit by an Israeli military strike, north of Gaza City on July 31, 2014. Israel vowed it would not pull troops out of Gaza until they finish destroying a network of cross-border tunnels, despite sharp United Nations criticism over the Palestinian death toll. AFP PHOTO/MARCO LONGARI/AFP/Getty Images ( 532110386 )
A Palestinian woman cries as she stands near the rubble of her home in Beit Hanoun, Gaza Strip, Friday, Aug. 1, 2014. A three-day Gaza cease-fire that began Friday quickly unraveled, with Israel and Hamas accusing each other of violating the truce. (AP Photo/Hatem Moussa) ( APTOPIX Mideast Israel Palestinians )
A wounded Palestinian girl cries in a hospital who was brought after Israeli shelling in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, Friday, Aug. 1, 2014. (AP Photo/Eyad Baba) ( Mideast Israel Palestinians )
A Palestinian holds a pet bird he salvaged from the rubble of a destroyed house, in the heavily bombed town of Beit Hanoun, Gaza Strip, close to the Israeli border, Friday, Aug. 1, 2014. A three-day Gaza cease-fire that began Friday quickly unraveled, with Israel and Hamas accusing each other of violating the truce. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis) ( Mideast Israel Palestinians )
An elderly Palestinian man looks at the destruction caused by Israeli strikes in the village of Khuzaa, southern Gaza Strip, close to the Israeli border, Friday, Aug. 1, 2014. A three-day Gaza cease-fire that began Friday quickly unraveled, with Israel and Hamas accusing each other of violating the truce. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra) ( Mideast Israel Palestinians )
An Israeli soldier runs in front of an Israeli Merkava tank at an army deployment area on the southern Israeli border with the Gaza Strip, on August 1, 2014. Israeli forces in the southern Gaza Strip are searching for a missing soldier they fear may have been captured by militants at the start of a new ceasefire, the army said. AFP PHOTO / JACK GUEZ/AFP/Getty Images ( 532119209 )
Palestinians run for cover during clashes with Israeli soldiers following a protest against the war in the Gaza Strip, outside Ofer, an Israeli military prison near the West Bank city of Ramallah, Friday, Aug. 1, 2014. (AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed) ( Mideast Israel Palestinians )
Palestinian men walk away from a covered dead body in Khuzaa, near Khan Yunis in southern Gaza Strip, on August 1, 2014. A joint Palestinian delegation, including Hamas and Islamic Jihad, is to travel to Cairo on August 2, for ceasefire talks despite the renewed fighting in Gaza, president Mahmud Abbas's office announced. AFP PHOTO / BILAL TELAWI/AFP/Getty Images ( 532117422 )
A Palestinian man from Gaza Strip's central Bureij refugee camp holds in the palm of his hand some flechettes, as one is seen stuck in the wall of his house, while he inspects it on August 1, 2014. Israel declared an end to a three-day Gaza truce only hours after it began today, saying it fears a soldier was captured, jeopardising international efforts for a durable ceasefire. AFP PHOTO/MARCO LONGARI/AFP/Getty Images ( 532115522 )
Israeli Merkava tanks roll to the southern Israeli border with the Gaza Strip, on August 1, 2014. Israeli forces in the southern Gaza Strip are searching for a missing soldier they fear may have been captured by militants at the start of a new ceasefire, the army said. AFP PHOTO / JACK GUEZ/AFP/Getty Images ( 532117629 )
Palestinians salvage what they can from their belongings in the village of Khuzaa, southern Gaza Strip, Friday, Aug. 1, 2014. A three-day Gaza cease-fire that began Friday quickly unraveled, with Israel and Hamas accusing each other of violating the truce. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra) ( Mideast Israel Palestinians )
Palestinians search the rubble their home in Beit Hanoun, Gaza Strip, Friday, Aug. 1, 2014. A three-day Gaza cease-fire that began Friday quickly unraveled, with Israel and Hamas accusing each other of violating the truce. (AP Photo/Hatem Moussa) ( APTOPIX Mideast Israel Palestinians )
Palestinians carry a lifeless body found under the rubble of a destroyed house while people inspect the damage caused by Israeli strikes in the village of Khuzaa, southern Gaza Strip, close to the Israeli border, Friday, Aug. 1, 2014. A three-day Gaza cease-fire that began Friday quickly unraveled, with Israel and Hamas accusing each other of violating the truce. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra) ( Mideast Israel Palestinians )
Palestinians inspect the damage of their destroyed houses following Israeli strikes in the village of Khuzaa, southern Gaza Strip, close to the Israeli border, Friday, Aug. 1, 2014. A three-day Gaza cease-fire that began Friday quickly unraveled, with Israel and Hamas accusing each other of violating the truce. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra) ( Mideast Israel Palestinians )
A wounded Palestinian woman arrives at al-Najar hospital in the southern of Gaza strip, on August 1, 2014. Israeli shelling killed eight people in southern Gaza, medics said, just hours after a 72-hour humanitarian ceasefire took effect. AFP PHOTO/ SAID KHATIB/AFP/Getty Images ( 532111118 )
A Palestinian walks though a heavily bombed area in Beit Hanoun, Gaza Strip, Friday, Aug. 1, 2014. A three-day Gaza cease-fire that began Friday quickly unraveled, with Israel and Hamas accusing each other of violating the truce. (AP Photo/Hatem Moussa) ( Mideast Israel Palestinians )
Palestinians inspect the damage of their destroyed houses following Israeli strikes in the village of Khuzaa, southern Gaza Strip, close to the Israeli border, Friday, Aug. 1, 2014. A three-day Gaza cease-fire that began Friday quickly unraveled, with Israel and Hamas accusing each other of violating the truce. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra) ( Mideast Israel Palestinians )
Palestinians salvage belongings from the rubble of their destroyed house in the heavily bombed town of Beit Hanoun, Gaza Strip, close to the Israeli border, Friday, Aug. 1, 2014. A three-day Gaza cease-fire that began Friday quickly unraveled, with Israel and Hamas accusing each other of violating the truce. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis) ( Mideast Israel Palestinians )
Palestinians inspect the damage of their destroyed houses following Israeli strikes in the village of Khuzaa, southern Gaza Strip, Friday, Aug. 1, 2014. A three-day Gaza cease-fire that began Friday quickly unraveled, with Israel and Hamas accusing each other of violating the truce. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra) ( Mideast Israel Palestinians )
Palestinians carry a lifeless body found under the rubble while people inspect the damage caused by Israeli strikes in the village of Khuzaa, southern Gaza Strip, close to the Israeli border, Friday, Aug. 1, 2014. A three-day Gaza cease-fire that began Friday quickly unraveled, with Israel and Hamas accusing each other of violating the truce. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra) ( Mideast Israel Palestinians )
An Israeli soldier aims his weapon during clashes with Palestinians following a protest against the Israeli military action in Gaza, in the West Bank city of Hebron, Friday, Aug. 1, 2014. (AP Photo/Nasser Shiyoukhi) ( Mideast Israel Palestinians )
Palestinians inspect a destroyed house in the heavily bombed Gaza City neighborhood of Shijaiyah, close to the Israeli border, Friday, Aug. 1, 2014. A three-day Gaza cease-fire that began Friday quickly unraveled, with Israel and Hamas accusing each other of violating the truce. (AP Photo/Dusan Vranic) ( Mideast Israel Palestinians )
A Palestinian boy sits in the stairwell of his home in the heavily bombed Gaza City neighborhood of Shijaiyah, close to the Israeli border, Friday, Aug. 1, 2014. A three-day Gaza cease-fire that began Friday quickly unraveled, with Israel and Hamas accusing each other of violating the truce. (AP Photo/Hatem Moussa) ( APTOPIX Mideast Israel Palestinians )
Palestinians walk by the rubble of destroyed houses in the heavily bombed town of Beit Hanoun, Gaza Strip, close to the Israeli border, Friday, Aug. 1, 2014. A three-day Gaza cease-fire that began Friday quickly unraveled, with Israel and Hamas accusing each other of violating the truce. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis) ( Mideast Israel Palestinians )
A Palestinian man inspects the damage to his home in Jabalia in the northern Gaza Strip on August 1, 2014. A 72-hour ceasefire took effect today in Gaza but was immediately threatened by fierce clashes and deadly shelling, as diplomats pressed for a durable end to the 25-day conflict. AFP PHOTO/ MOHAMMED ABED/AFP/Getty Images ( 532113001 )
Smoke billows from buildings following an Israeli military strike east of Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, on August 1, 2014. Israeli shelling killed eight people in southern Gaza, medics said, just hours after a 72-hour humanitarian ceasefire took effect. AFP PHOTO/ SAID KHATIB/AFP/Getty Images ( 532111869 )
An injured Palestinian child receives medical treatment at al-Najar hospital in Rafah in the southern of Gaza strip, following an Israeli military strike on August 1, 2014. Egypt told Palestinian officials it is delaying ceasefire talks in Cairo after Israel said militants captured one of its soldiers in Gaza, a senior Islamic Jihad official said. AFP PHOTO / BILAL TELAWI/AFP/Getty Images ( 532114347 )
Palestinians who were displaced from their houses due to fighting between Israel's army and Hamas fighters return to check their homes in Gaza City's Shejaiya neighborhood, on August 1, 2014. Israeli shelling killed eight people in Gaza today just hours into a three-day truce, medics said, as a diplomatic push for a more durable end to the bloodshed gained pace. It gave a brief respite to residents of the battered strip, after 25 days of violence that killed 1,459 on the Palestinian side, mostly civilians, and 61 soldiers and three civilians on the Israeli side. AFP PHOTO / MAHMUD HAMS/AFP/Getty Images ( 532116020 )
In a picture taken from the Israel-Gaza border, smoke rises from the coastal side of the Gaza Strip following an Israeli controlled explosion of a tunnel, on August 1, 2014 after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced the previous day that the army will continue working to destroy tunnels used by Gaza militants for cross-border attacks with or without a ceasefire. Even as troops have worked to destroy the tunnels, some of which have been booby trapped, militants have managed to use them to infiltrate southern Israel five times, Haaretz newspaper reported. AFP PHOTO / JACK GUEZ/AFP/Getty Images ( 532117154 )
Palestinians, who were displaced from their houses due to fighting between Israel's army and Hamas fighters, return to inspect the condition of their homes in Jabalia in the northern Gaza Strip on August 1, 2014. A 72-hour ceasefire took effect today in Gaza but was immediately threatened by fierce clashes and deadly shelling, as diplomats pressed for a durable end to the 25-day conflict. AFP PHOTO/ MOHAMMED ABED/AFP/Getty Images ( 532116004 )
Smoke rises after an Israeli strike in Gaza City, northern Gaza Strip, Thursday, July 31, 2014. (AP Photo/Majed Hamdan) ( Mideast Israel Palestinians )
An Israeli soldier walks past a Merkava tank along the border between Israel and the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip, on July 30, 2014, after returning from combat in the Palestinian enclave. At least 17 people were killed in an Israeli strike on a packed Gaza market in a deadly raid that came as Israel was observing a four-hour humanitarian lull. AFP PHOTO/GIL COHEN MAGEN/AFP/Getty Images ( 532084737 )
In this Thursday, July 24, 2014, file photo, a Palestinian shouts in an area damaged in an Israeli airstrike in Gaza City in the Gaza Strip. On Thursday, July 31, 2014, the U.N.'s top human rights official accused both Israel and Hamas of committing war crimes in the current Gaza fighting. (AP Photo/Hatem Moussa, File) ( Mideast Israel Palestinians War Crimes )
An Israeli soldier carries a shell as he and his comrades prepare their Merkava tanks stationed at an army deployment area along the border between Israel and the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip on July 31, 2014. Israel mobilized 16,000 additional reservists today to bolster forces fighting in Gaza as Washington gave its ally the go-ahead to raid stocks of emergency US weapons stored on Israeli soil. AFP PHOTO/JACK GUEZ/AFP/Getty Images ( 532092020 )
A Palestinian relative of Mohammed al-Daeri, 25, mourns during his funeral in Gaza City on July 31, 2014. At least 10 people were killed in Israeli strikes on central and southern Gaza bringing the Palestinian death toll to 1,374 on day 24 of the conflict. AFP PHOTO / MAHMUD HAMS/AFP/Getty Images ( 532088262 )
Two wounded Palestinian children taking shelter at a UN school receive treatment at the Kamal Edwan hospital in Beit Lahia in the northern Gaza Strip early on July 31, 2014. Early in the morning, an Israeli strike attacked a mosque near the same UN school in Jabalia, that was attacked the day before, wounding 15 Palestinians, emergency services said. AFP PHOTO/ MOHAMMED ABED/AFP/Getty Images ( 532085816 )
Palestinian Abdel Aziz Jendiyah, 4, walks past a six-story building, destroyed by an Israeli strike earlier during the war, adjacent to his family house, in the Sabra neighborhood of Gaza City, northern Gaza Strip, Thursday, July 31, 2014. The Jendiyah family building houses 21 members of the extended family, and now with several rooms destroyed, they try to go about their lives, without electricity and without running water for several hours a day. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis) ( Mideast Israel Palestinians )
An Israeli soldier of the Maglan elite unit morns over the grave of Staff Sgt. Matan Gotlib, a Maglan elite unit soldier, during his funeral in the military cemetery in Rishon Letzion, central Israel, Thursday, July 31, 2014. Gotlib, 21, was killed in combat on Wednesday in the southern Gaza Strip. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit) ( APTOPIX Mideast Israel Palestinians )
Smoke rises after an Israeli strike hit Gaza City, northern Gaza Strip, Thursday, July 31, 2014.(AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis) ( Mideast Israel Palestinians )
Rockets are fired from Gaza Strip towards Israel, Thursday, July 31, 2014, as international efforts to end the 23-day-old conflict seemed to sputter despite concern over the mounting death toll. (AP Photo/Dusan Vranic) ( Mideast Israel Palestinians )
Palestinians assist a youth, wounded in an Israeli strike, into the emergency room at Shifa Hospital, in Gaza City, northern Gaza Strip,Thursday, July 31, 2014. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis) ( Mideast Israel Palestinians )
Palestinian firefighters inspects the damage of a destroyed milk factory after it was hit by an Israeli airstrike in Gaza City, Thursday, July 31, 2014. Israel said Thursday it has called up another 16,000 reservists, allowing it to potentially widen its Gaza operation against the territory's Hamas rulers in a three-week-old war that has killed more than 1,300 Palestinians and more than 50 Israelis. (AP Photo/Hatem Moussa) ( Mideast Israel Palestinians )
Smoke and sand from an explosion rise after an Israeli strike in Gaza City, northern Gaza Strip, Thursday, July 31, 2014.(AP Photo/Majed Hamdan) ( Mideast Israel Palestinians )
Palestinian Heygar Jendiyah, left, points to where the family house kitchen once stood, partially destroyed by an Israeli strike earlier during the war, as her children Ranin, 10, center, and Helmi, right, listen, in the Sabra neighborhood of Gaza City, northern Gaza Strip, Thursday, July 31, 2014. The building houses 21 members of the extended family, and now with several rooms destroyed, they try to go about their lives, without electricity and without running water for several hours a day. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis) ( Mideast Israel Palestinians )
A Palestinian medic inspects the wreckage of a motorcycle caused by an Israeli airstrike in Rafah on Thursday, July 31, 2014. Fadel Elmeghary, an Islamic Jihad member, was killed in the airstrike, while on his motorcycle in Rafah, according to Gaza health official Ashraf al-Kidra. (AP Photo/Hatem Ali) ( Mideast Israel Palestinians )
Palestinian inspects the damage of a destroyed milk factory after it was hit by an Israeli airstrike in Gaza City, Thursday, July 31, 2014. (AP Photo/Hatem Moussa) ( Mideast Israel Palestinians )
An honor guard participates in the funeral of Staff Sgt. Guy Algranati on July 31, 2014 in Tel Aviv, Israel. Since the beginning of Operation Protective Edge in Gaza, more than 50 Israeli soldiers have been killed along with over 1000 Palestinians. (Photo by Ilia Yefimovich/Getty Images) ( 452971154 )
Israeli Merkava tanks are seen at an army deployment area near the border with the Gaza Strip, on July 31, 2014, as smoke billows from the coastal Palestinian enclave. Israel mobilised 16,000 additional reservists today to bolster forces fighting in Gaza as Washington gave its ally the go-ahead to raid stocks of emergency US weapons stored on Israeli soil. AFP PHOTO/JACK GUEZ/AFP/Getty Images ( 532085819 )
Palestinian Abdel Aziz Jendiyah, 4, enters the family house, partially destroyed by an Israeli strike earlier during the war, in the Sabra neighborhood of Gaza City, northern Gaza Strip, Thursday, July 31, 2014. The normal entrance to the house was destroyed and now is filled with rubble, so the family had to open the hole on the wall for entry and exit. The Jendiyah family building houses 21 members of the extended family, and now with several rooms destroyed, they try to go about their lives, without electricity and without running water for several hours a day. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis) ( Mideast Israel Palestinians )
Israeli soldiers of the Maglan elite unit carry the coffin of Staff Sgt. Matan Gotlib, a Maglan elite unit soldier, during his funeral in the military cemetery in Rishon Letzion, central Israel, Thursday, July 31, 2014. Gotlib, 21, was killed in combat on Wednesday in the southern Gaza Strip. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit) ( Mideast Israel Palestinians )
Palestinians walk past the Hamas movement's Al-Aqsa satellite TV station which was hit by an Israeli strike in Gaza City, Thursday, July 31, 2014. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra) ( Mideast Israel Palestinians )
Palestinian children, wounded during fighting between Israeli forces and Hamas militants near a compound housing a U.N. school in Beit Hanoun, in the northern Gaza Strip, in the northern Gaza Strip, lay on the floor of an emergency room at the Kamal Adwan hospital in Beit Lahiya, Thursday, July 24, 2014. Israeli tank shells hit the compound, killing more than a dozen people and wounding dozens more who were seeking shelter from fierce clashes on the streets outside. Gaza health official Ashraf al-Kidra says the dead and injured in the school compound were among hundreds of people seeking shelter from heavy fighting in the area. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis) ( APTOPIX Mideast Israel Palestinians )
A man shouts for help after two people were killed in an Israeli air strike on a van in Gaza City on Thursday, July 31, 2014. (AP Photo/Adel Hana) ( Mideast Israel Palestinians )
Palestinian Heygar Jendiyah, gestures as she speaks to the photographer, while her daughter Ranin, 10, stands background, at the house, partially destroyed by an Israeli strike earlier during the war, in the Sabra neighborhood of Gaza City, northern Gaza Strip, Thursday, July 31, 2014. The building houses 21 members of the extended family, and now with several rooms destroyed, they try to go about their lives, without electricity and without running water for several hours a day. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis) ( APTOPIX Mideast Israel Palestinians )
Light from an Israeli strike in central Gaza Strip illuminates the sky, as seen from Gaza City, northern Gaza Strip, Thursday, July 31, 2014. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis) ( Mideast Israel Palestinians )
Displaced Palestinians take shelter at the al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City after fleeing attacks in the Shejaiya neighborhood of the city, on July 31, 2014. With more than 220,000 Palestinians already sheltering in UN facilities -- four times the number from the last Gaza conflict in 2008-2009 -- the top UN refugee official Philippe Krahenbuhl said he had reached breaking point. AFP PHOTO / MAHMUD HAMS/AFP/Getty Images ( 532094018 )
Palestinians watch smoke rising from a building following an Israeli strike on Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, on July 31, 2014. At least 10 people were killed in Israeli strikes on central and southern Gaza bringing the Palestinian death toll to 1,374 on day 24 of the conflict. AFP PHOTO / SAID KHATIB/AFP/Getty Images ( 532090288 )
Comrades of 20-year-old Israeli St.-Sgt. Guy Algranati, mourn during his funeral in the military section of the Kiryat Shaul cemetery in Tel Aviv on July 31, 2014, after he was killed the previous day in combat in the Gaza Strip. Israel said it would not pull troops from Gaza until they finish destroying a network of cross-border tunnels, and the army confirmed mobilising another 16,000 additional reservists, hiking the total number called up to 86,000. AFP PHOTO/ GALI TIBBON/AFP/Getty Images ( 532091020 )
Palestinian firefighters try to extinguish the flames in a van, that was reportedly targeted by an Israeli military strike, in Gaza City on July 31, 2014. Israel said it would not pull troops from Gaza until they finish destroying a network of cross-border tunnels, despite sharp United Nations criticism over the Palestinian civilian death toll. AFP PHOTO/ MOHAMMED ABED/AFP/Getty Images ( 532092934 )
Israeli soldiers rest along the border between Israel and the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip after returning from combat in the Gaza Strip on July 31, 2014. Israel said it would not pull troops from Gaza until they finish destroying a network of cross-border tunnels, despite sharp United Nations criticism over the Palestinian civilian death toll. AFP PHOTO/GIL COHEN MAGEN/AFP/Getty Images ( 532093042 )
A displaced Palestinian girl sits at the al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City where many Palestinians have have taken refuge after fleeing attacks in the Shejaiya neighborhood of the city, on July 31, 2014. With more than 220,000 Palestinians already sheltering in UN facilities -- four times the number from the last Gaza conflict in 2008-2009 -- the top UN refugee official Philippe Krahenbuhl said he had reached breaking point. AFP PHOTO / MAHMUD HAMS/AFP/Getty Images ( 532094014 )
A relative of 21-year-old Israeli St.-Sgt. Matan Gotlib, mourns during his funeral at the military cemetery in the Israeli costal city of Rishon Letzion on July 31, 2014, after he was killed the previous day in combat in the Gaza Strip. Israel said it would not pull troops from Gaza until they finish destroying a network of cross-border tunnels, and the army confirmed mobilising another 16,000 additional reservists, hiking the total number called up to 86,000. AFP PHOTO/ GALI TIBBON/AFP/Getty Images ( 532095642 )
Friends of 21-year-old Israeli St.-Sgt. Matan Gotlib, mourn during his funeral at the military cemetery in the Israeli costal city of Rishon Letzion on July 31, 2014, after he was killed the previous day in combat in the Gaza Strip. Israel said it would not pull troops from Gaza until they finish destroying a network of cross-border tunnels, and the army confirmed mobilizing another 16,000 additional reservists, hiking the total number called up to 86,000. AFP PHOTO/ GALI TIBBON/AFP/Getty Images ( 532096179 )
Smoke billows from buildings following an Israeli air strike in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, on July 31, 2014. Israel vowed to keep its troops in Gaza until they finish destroying a network of cross-border tunnels, despite sharp UN and US criticism over the Palestinian death toll. AFP PHOTO/ SAID KHATIB/AFP/Getty Images ( 532096389 )
A woman reacts after a rocket launched by Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip fell on the Israeli town of Kiryat Gat on July 31, 2014. Israel began its military offensive in Gaza on July 8 with the aim of stamping out persistent militant rocket fire on southern Israel, but expanded the operation by sending in ground troops on July 17 to destroy a sophisticated network of tunnels used by militants. AFP PHOTO/DAVID BUIMOVITCH/AFP/Getty Images ( 532096229 )
A fallen minaret, bottom right, is seen as Palestinians inspect the damage to the Al-Sousi mosque, that was destroyed in an Israel strike, at Shati refugee camp in the northern Gaza Strip, Wednesday, July 30, 2014. Israeli aircraft struck dozens of Gaza sites on Wednesday, including five mosques it said were being used by militants, while several other areas came under tank fire. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis) ( Mideast Israel Palestinians )
An Israeli artillery gun fires a 155mm shell towards targets from their position near Israel's border with the Gaza Strip on July 30, 2014. Israel agreed to observe a four-hour lull in Gaza several hours after a deadly strike on a school killed 16, drawing a furious response from a UN refugee agency. AFP PHOTO/ JACK GUEZ/AFP/Getty Images ( 532065667 )
A boy looks through the wall of a building damaged by an Israeli strike at the Abu Hussein U.N. school in the Jebaliya refugee camp in the northern Gaza Strip on Wednesday, July 30, 2014. Israeli tank shells slammed into a crowded U.N. school Wednesday sheltering Gazans displaced by fighting, killing more than a dozen and wounding tens after tearing through the walls of two classrooms, a spokesman for a U.N. aid agency and a health official said. The Israeli military said mortar shells had been fired from near the school, and that soldiers fired back. (AP Photo/Hatem Moussa) ( Mideast Israel Palestinians )
A Palestinian relative helps a wounded woman following an Israeli air strike on a building in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, Wednesday, July 30, 2014. (AP Photo/Eyad Baba) ( Mideast Israel Palestinians )
Smoke rises in the skyline from Israeli strikes in eastern Gaza City, early Wednesday, July 30, 2014, amid Israel's heaviest air and artillery assault in more than three weeks of Israel-Hamas fighting. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra) ( Mideast Israel Palestinians )
Palestinians help a man wounded as they walk over the rubble of destroyed buildings following an Israeli airstrike in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, Wednesday, July 30, 2014.(AP Photo/Eyad Baba) ( Mideast Israel Palestinians )
Palestinians inspect a destroyed car by a fallen minaret, in the background, of the Al-Sousi mosque, that was destroyed in an Israel strike, at Shati refugee camp in the northern Gaza Strip, Wednesday, July 30, 2014. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis) ( Mideast Israel Palestinians )
Smoke rises in the sky following Israeli strikes on eastern Gaza City, early Wednesday, July 30, 2014, amid Israel's heaviest air and artillery assault in more than three weeks of Israel-Hamas fighting. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra) ( Mideast Israel Palestinians )
Palestinian mourners cry as the bodies of brothers Abdullah Al Amoudi, 18, and Bilal, 26, who were killed by an Israeli strike earlier near the Abu Hussein school, are brought into their home during their funeral at Jebaliya refugee camp, northern Gaza Strip, Wednesday, July 30, 2014. According to the family, the brothers were killed outside the family home, across the street from the U.N. school. Several Israeli tank shells slammed into the crowded U.N. school used as shelter for refugees in the Gaza war early on Wednesday, killing over a dozen people, a Palestinian health official and a U.N. official said. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis) ( Mideast Israel Palestinians )
Palestinians grieve the death of their relatives who were killed in an Israeli strike at a U.N. school in Jebaliya refugee camp, at the Kamal Adwan hospital in Beit Lahiya, northern Gaza Strip, Wednesday, July 30, 2014. Israeli tank shells slammed into a crowded U.N. school Wednesday sheltering Gazans displaced by fighting, killing more than a dozen and wounding tens after tearing through the walls of two classrooms, a spokesman for a U.N. aid agency and a health official said. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra) ( APTOPIX Mideast Israel Palestinians )
Smoke from Israeli strikes rise over Gaza City, in the northern Gaza Strip, in the northern Gaza Strip, Wednesday, July 30, 2014. On Wednesday, Israeli aircraft struck dozens of Gaza sites, including five mosques it said were being used by militants, while several other areas came under tank fire.(AP Photo/Adel Hana) ( Mideast Israel Palestinians )
Palestinians inspect damage to adjacent houses from a fallen minaret of the Al-Sousi mosque that was destroyed in an Israel strike, at the Shati refugee camp, in the northern Gaza Strip, Wednesday, July 30, 2014. Israeli aircraft struck dozens of Gaza sites on Wednesday, including five mosques it said were being used by militants, while several other areas came under tank fire. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis) ( APTOPIX Mideast Israel Palestinians )
An injured Palestinian receives treatment at Nasser hospital following an Israeli airstrike in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, Wednesday, July 30, 2014. On Wednesday, Israeli aircraft struck dozens of Gaza sites, including five mosques it said were being used by militants, while several other areas came under tank fire. (AP Photo/Hatem Ali) ( Mideast Israel Palestinians )
A Palestinian woman who lost a relative in an Israeli strike on a compound housing a UN school in Jabalia refugee camp in the northern Gaza Strip, mourns outside the Kamal Edwin hospital in Beit Lahia where victims from the attack were brought early on July 30, 2014. Israeli bombardments early on July 30 killed "dozens" Palestinians in Gaza, including at least 16 at a UN school, medics said, on day 23 of the Israel-Hamas conflict. AFP PHOTO / MAHMUD HAMS/AFP/Getty Images ( 532059625 )
Palestinian children lay on the floor at the Abu Hussein U.N. school, hit by an Israeli strike earlier, in the Jebaliya refugee camp, northern Gaza Strip, Wednesday, July 30, 2014. Israeli tank shells slammed into a crowded U.N. school sheltering Gazans displaced by fighting on Wednesday, killing more than a dozen and wounding tens after tearing through the walls of two classrooms, a spokesman for a U.N. aid agency and a health official said. The Israeli military said mortar shells had been fired from near the school, and that soldiers fired back. (AP Photo/Hatem Moussa) ( Mideast Israel Palestinians )
Palestinians look at animals killed and wounded by an Israeli strike earlier at the Abu Hussein U.N. school, partly seen in the background, in the Jebaliya refugee camp in the northern Gaza Strip on Wednesday, July 30, 2014. (AP Photo/Hatem Moussa) ( Mideast Israel Palestinians )
An explosion from an Israeli strike lights up the sky in eastern Gaza City, early Wednesday, July 30, 2014, amid Israel's heaviest air and artillery assault in more than three weeks of Israel-Hamas fighting. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra) ( Mideast Israel Palestinians )
A Palestinian child, wounded in an Israeli strike on a compound housing a UN school in Beit Lahia in the northern Gaza Strip, receives treatment at Kamal Edwan hospital in Beit Lahia early on July 30, 2014. Israeli bombardments early on July 30 killed "dozens" of Palestinians in Gaza, including at least 16 at a UN school, medics said, on day 23 of the Israel-Hamas conflict. AFP PHOTO / MOHAMMED ABED/AFP/Getty Images ( 532057872 )
A Palestinian girl, wounded in an Israeli strike on a compound housing a UN school in Beit Lahia in the northern Gaza Strip, is pictured at Kamal Edwan hospital in Beit Lahia early on July 30, 2014. Israeli bombardments early on July 30 killed "dozens" of Palestinians in Gaza, including at least 16 at a UN school, medics said, on day 23 of the Israel-Hamas conflict. AFP PHOTO / MOHAMMED ABED/AFP/Getty Images ( 532057876 )
Palestinian mourners pray in front of the bodies of ten members of the al-Astal family, that were killed in an Israeli air strike on their homes, during their funeral in Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip on July 30, 2014. Israeli bombardments early on July 30 killed "dozens" Palestinians in Gaza, including at least 16 at a UN school, medics said, on day 23 of the Israel-Hamas conflict. AFP PHOTO/ SAID KHATIB/AFP/Getty Images ( 532062491 )
Palestinian mourners carry the bodies of the ten members of the al-Astal family, that were killed in an Israeli air strike on their homes, during their funeral in Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip on July 30, 2014. Israeli bombardments early on July 30 killed "dozens" Palestinians in Gaza, including at least 16 at a UN school, medics said, on day 23 of the Israel-Hamas conflict. AFP PHOTO/ SAID KHATIB/AFP/Getty Images ( 532062387 )
A Palestinian man battles a building on fire following several Israeli strikes on Gaza City on July 30, 2014. So far, according to Palestinian medics, 1,283 people have been killed and more than 7,170 wounded since the start of the Israeli offensive, which began with an intensive air campaign on July 8 and expanded when Israel sent ground troops into the Gaza periphery on July 17. AFP PHOTO / MOHAMMED ABED/AFP/Getty Images ( 532062985 )
Flyers are dropped over Gaza City by the Israeli army urging residents to evacuate their homes on July 30, 2014. Israeli bombardments early on July 30 killed "dozens" of Palestinians in Gaza, including at least 16 at a UN school, medics said, on day 23 of the Israel-Hamas conflict. AFP PHOTO / MOHAMMED ABED/AFP/Getty Images ( 532062526 )
A Palestinian who lost relatives in an Israeli strike on a compound housing a UN school in Jabalia refugee camp in the northern Gaza Strip, mourns next to bodies wrapped in shrouds at the Kamal Edwin hospital in Beit Lahia where victims from the attack were brought early on July 30, 2014. Israeli bombardments early on July 30 killed "dozens" Palestinians in Gaza, including at least 16 at a UN school, medics said, on day 23 of the Israel-Hamas conflict. AFP PHOTO / MAHMUD HAMS/AFP/Getty Images ( 532059366 )
Palestinians try to put out a building on fire following several Israeli strikes on Gaza City on July 30, 2014. So far, according to Palestinian medics, 1,283 people have been killed and more than 7,170 wounded since the start of the Israeli offensive, which began with an intensive air campaign on July 8 and expanded when Israel sent ground troops into the Gaza periphery on July 17. AFP PHOTO / MOHAMMED ABED/AFP/Getty Images ( 532063095 )
Palestinian rescue workers carry the body of a member of the Duheir family after removing it from under the rubble of their home which was destroyed in an Israeli air strike the previous day in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip. At least 54 people died in Israeli strikes across Gaza on July 30, including 16 killed when shells hit a UN school, sending the Palestinian toll from 23 days of fighting to more than 1,280. AFP PHOTO/ SAID KHATIB/AFP/Getty Images ( 532063241 )
Palestinians try to put out a building on fire following several Israeli strikes on Gaza City on July 30, 2014. So far, according to Palestinian medics, 1,283 people have been killed and more than 7,170 wounded since the start of the Israeli offensive, which began with an intensive air campaign on July 8 and expanded when Israel sent ground troops into the Gaza periphery on July 17. AFP PHOTO / MOHAMMED ABED/AFP/Getty Images ( 532063053 )
Palestinian youths weep as they watch rescue workers on July 30, 2014 removing the body of a dead child from under the rubble of the Duheir family home which was destroyed in an Israeli air strike the previous day in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip. At least 54 people died in Israeli strikes across Gaza on July 30, including 16 killed when shells hit a UN school, sending the Palestinian toll from 23 days of fighting to more than 1,280. AFP PHOTO/ SAID KHATIB/AFP/Getty Images ( 532063199 )
Displaced Palestinian children rest at the Abu Hussien UN school in the Jabalia refugee camp in the northern Gaza Strip after the area was hit earlier in the morning by Israeli shelling on July 30, 2014. Israeli bombardments early on July 30 killed "dozens" of Palestinians in Gaza, including at least 16 at a UN school, medics said, on day 23 of the Israel-Hamas conflict. AFP PHOTO / MAHMUD HAMS/AFP/Getty Images ( 532063581 )
An Israeli artillery gun fires a 155mm shell towards targets from their position near Israel's border with the Gaza Strip on July 30, 2014. Israel agreed to observe a four-hour lull in Gaza several hours after a deadly strike on a school killed 16, drawing a furious response from a UN refugee agency. AFP PHOTO/ JACK GUEZ/AFP/Getty Images ( 532065672 )
Mortars ready to be fired are laid out at an army staging area along Israel's border with the Gaza Strip on July 30, 2014. Israel agreed to observe a four-hour lull in Gaza several hours after a deadly strike on a school killed 16, drawing a furious response from a UN refugee agency. AFP PHOTO/ JACK GUEZ/AFP/Getty Images ( 532065639 )
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