PHOTOS: Israel pounds Gaza, destroying apartment tower
August 23, 2014
Palestinian men watch as a bomb from an Israeli air strike explodes on target in Gaza City on August 23, 2014. Israeli warplanes pounded Gaza, killing five Palestinians from the same family, two of them children, as the war between Israel and Hamas entered a 47th day. ROBERTO SCHMIDT/AFP/Getty Images ( 532654955 )
A ball of fire rises from a building following an Israeli air strike in Gaza City on August 23, 2014. Egypt is to invite Israeli and Palestinian delegations to return to Cairo to resume talks on a long-term truce for Gaza, Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas announced. MOHAMMED OTHMAN/AFP/Getty Images ( 532665199 )
An apartment building (C) collapses just after it was hit by missiles during an Israeli air strike on the heart of Gaza City on August 23, 2014, wounding at least 18 people, four of them children. Residents in the 11-storey building were called 10 minutes before the attack and told to evacuate, after which at least two missiles slammed into the complex, levelling it totally. MOHAMMED OTHMAN/AFP/Getty Images ( 532665721 )
Palestinians extinguish a fire following an Israeli strike on a building in Gaza, northern Gaza Strip, Saturday, Aug. 23, 2014. Arabic writing on wall gives congratulations from relatives on a wedding, "a thousand congratulations." (AP Photo/Adel Hana) ( APTOPIX Mideast Israel Palestinians )
Palestinians take cover as an Israeli strike on a building causes a ball of fire and smoke to rise in the Rafah refugee camp, southern Gaza Strip, Saturday, Aug. 23, 2014. (AP Photo/Hatem Ali) ( Mideast Israel Palestinians )
Palestinian firefighters extinguish a fire in a carpentry shop following an Israeli strike in Gaza, in the northern Gaza Strip, Saturday, Aug. 23, 2014. (AP Photo/Adel Hana) ( Mideast Israel Palestinians )
Palestinians inspect the damage of their house after it was destroyed in an Israeli strike late Friday, in Gaza City, Saturday, Aug. 23, 2014. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra) ( Mideast Israel Palestinians )
A Palestinian man carrying his daughter runs with his sons, from their neighbourhood following six Israeli air strikes on homes in Gaza City on August 23, 2014. Israeli warplanes pounded Gaza, killing five Palestinians from the same family, two of them children, as the war between Israel and Hamas entered a 47th day. THOMAS COEX/AFP/Getty Images ( 532655143 )
A Palestinian woman cries as she and other members of her family ran out of their house in a hurry on August 23, 2014 in Gaza City after they received a call from Israel telling them to leave their home because a bombing nearby was imminent. Soon after a small missile hit two houses away and was followed by a bomb on a building in close proximity. No one was injured in the bombing. Elsewhere, Israeli warplanes pounded Gaza, killing five Palestinians from the same family, two of them children, as the war between Israel and Hamas entered a 47th day. ROBERTO SCHMIDT/AFP/Getty Images ( 532655682 )
Relatives and friends carry the bodies of five Palestinians killed, during the funeral in the Central Gaza Strip city of Nusseirat on August 23, 2014. Israeli warplanes pounded Gaza, killing five Palestinians from the same family, two of them children, as the war between Israel and Hamas entered a 47th day. THOMAS COEX/AFP/Getty Images ( 532655748 )
Relatives and friends bury the bodies of five Palestinians killed, during the funeral in the Central Gaza Strip city of Nusseirat on August 23, 2014. Israeli warplanes pounded Gaza, killing five Palestinians from the same family, two of them children, as the war between Israel and Hamas entered a 47th day. THOMAS COEX/AFP/Getty Images ( 532655816 )
Relatives and friends of five Palestinians killed, attend the funeral in the Central Gaza Strip city of Nusseirat on August 23, 2014. Israeli warplanes pounded Gaza, killing five Palestinians from the same family, two of them children, as the war between Israel and Hamas entered a 47th day. THOMAS COEX/AFP/Getty Images ( 532655911 )
The living room of a house lies in ruins after it was destroyed by an Israeli air strike, that killed 5 Palestinians, in the Central Gaza Strip city of Nusseirat on August 23, 2014. Israeli warplanes pounded Gaza, killing five Palestinians from the same family, two of them children, as the war between Israel and Hamas entered a 47th day. THOMAS COEX/AFP/Getty Images ( 532655993 )
An Ultra-Orthodox Jewish man prays in front of a synagogue after it was hit by a rocket launched from the Gaza Strip, on August 22, 2014, in the southern costal Israeli city of Ashdod. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed harsh retribution against Hamas, the Islamist rulers of Gaza, after a mortar round fired from the Palestinian territory killed an Israeli child. DAVID BUIMOVITCH/AFP/Getty Images ( 532655713 )
A Palestinian photographer takes photos of smoke rising following an Israeli air strike on a home in Gaza City on August 23, 2014. Israel kept up the pressure on Hamas in Gaza, carrying out multiple air strikes that killed six Palestinians, five of them from the same family, as Egypt readied to call new truce talks. MOHAMMED ABED/AFP/Getty Images ( 532657012 )
Debris scatters as a Palestinian house is hit by an Israeli air strike in Gaza city on August 23, 2014. The Israeli military said it had carried out around 20 air strikes over the Gaza Strip and that three rockets or mortar rounds had hit southern Israel near the border with Gaza. MAHMUD HAMS/AFP/Getty Images ( 532656090 )
Palestinian men cover their heads as they run away after a bomb from an Israeli air strike hit a house in Gaza City on August 23, 2014 following two warning missiles. Israeli warplanes pounded Gaza, killing five Palestinians from the same family, two of them children, as the war between Israel and Hamas entered a 47th day. ROBERTO SCHMIDT/AFP/Getty Images ( 532655406 )
Palestinians inspect the damage of their house after it was destroyed in an Israeli strike late Friday, in Gaza City, Saturday, Aug. 23, 2014. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra) ( Mideast Israel Palestinians )
Palestinians carry the body of one of 5 Palestinians killed in an Israeli airstrike before the funeral in the Central Gaza Strip city of Nusseirat on August 23, 2014. Israel kept up the pressure on Hamas in Gaza, carrying out multiple air strikes that killed six Palestinians, five of them from the same family, as Egypt readied to call new truce talks. THOMAS COEX/AFP/Getty Images ( 532656538 )
Palestinians look at a house that was destroyed by an Israeli air strike in Gaza City on August 23, 2014. A powerful Israeli air strike leveled the house, of a family that included members of Hamas, late Friday, after a drone fired two rockets at the two-story property before an F16 warplane dropped a bomb, according to witnesses. Israel kept up the pressure on Hamas in Gaza, carrying out multiple air strikes that killed six Palestinians, five of them from the same family, as Egypt readied to call new truce talks. THOMAS COEX/AFP/Getty Images ( 532659707 )
Palestinian firefighters try to extinguish a fire inside a house that was hit by an Israeli air strike in Gaza city on August 23, 2014. Israel kept up the pressure on Hamas in Gaza, carrying out multiple air strikes that killed six Palestinians, five of them from the same family, as Egypt readied to call new truce talks. MAHMUD HAMS/AFP/Getty Images ( 532657410 )
Palestinians carry boxes of food aid (L) as others, who have also been displaced by the violence, sleep on mats in the courtyard of a UN school in Gaza City early on August 23, 2014. Hundreds of thousands of Gazans have been displaced by fighting between Israel and Hamas since the latest hostilities began on July 8. The UN recently said that 460,000 Palestinians have been displaced by the violence which is more than a quarter of the population of the Gaza Strip. Some 280,000 of those displaced have taken shelter in UN schools. ROBERTO SCHMIDT/AFP/Getty Images ( 532662535 )
People take part in a demonstration against Israel's military operations in Gaza and in support of the Palestinian people on August 23, 2014 in Amsterdam. Koen van Weel/AFP/Getty Images ( 532662958 )
People hold a Palestinian flag during a demonstration against Israel's military operations in Gaza and in support of the Palestinian people on August 23, 2014 in Paris. Sign reads "French resistance. Today's Zionists are yesterday's Nazis" (L) and "What has changed? Palestinian resistance"(R). FRED DUFOUR/AFP/Getty Images ( 532660828 )
People pray after placing shoes symbolizing the war dead of children in Gaza, at Zojyoji Buddhist Temple in Tokyo Saturday, Aug. 23, 2014. Since the war erupted July 8, more than 2,090 Palestinians have been killed, including close to 500 children, and about 100,000 Gazans have been left homeless, according to United Nations figures and Palestinian officials. Israel lost 64 soldiers and four civilians, including a 4-year-old boy killed by a mortar shell Friday. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko) ( Japan Protest Gaza )
Palestinians walk past a building that was destroyed by an Israeli air strike in Gaza City on August 23, 2014. Israel said it had carried out 55 air strikes over the Gaza Strip on August 23 and that around 45 rockets and mortar rounds hit Israel, with another 10 intercepted as a six-week war with Hamas rumbles on. MOHAMMED ABED/AFP/Getty Images ( 532665101 )
A Palestinian man carries a child after the building next to where they live was destroyed by an Israeli air strike in Gaza City on August 23, 2014. Israel said it had carried out 55 air strikes over the Gaza Strip on August 23 and that around 45 rockets and mortar rounds hit Israel, with another 10 intercepted as a six-week war with Hamas rumbles on. MOHAMMED ABED/AFP/Getty Images ( 532665229 )
A Palestinian youth reacts after a building was destroyed by an Israeli air strike in Gaza City on August 23, 2014. Israel said it had carried out 55 air strikes over the Gaza Strip on August 23 and that around 45 rockets and mortar rounds hit Israel, with another 10 intercepted as a six-week war with Hamas rumbles on. MOHAMMED ABED/AFP/Getty Images ( 532665220 )
A wounded Palestinian man waits to receive medical treatment at a hospital following an Israeli air strike on Gaza City on August 23, 2014. Israel said it had carried out 55 air strikes over the Palestinian enclave on August 23 and that around 45 rockets and mortar rounds hit Israel, with another 10 intercepted as a six-week war with Hamas rumbles on. MOHAMMED ABED/AFP/Getty Images ( 532667093 )
Black smoke rises after an Israeli strike hits Gaza City in the northern Gaza Strip, Saturday, Aug. 23, 2014. (AP Photo/Adel Hana) ( Mideast Israel Palestinians )
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