Photos: Winter 2008-2009: Conflict in Gaza
A Palestinian youth attending a summer camp run by Hamas places a flag of the organization’s youth movement on a house in Jabaliya refugee camp that was destroyed during the Israeli assault in December-January. Youths helod a protest against the Israeli blockade on
A Hamas policeman watches as Palestinian workers use clay bricks to build a police station in the
Palestinians working for the
Workers with the
Palestinian firemen try to save construction workers who were wounded when a house in Gaza City they were working in collapsed. The workers were removing iron structures from the rubble of the house, destroyed in the Israel assault. A report by the International Committee of the Red Cross says six months after Israel launched its three-week military operation, Gaza neighborhoods particularly hard hit by the Israeli strikes will continue to look like they were hit by a quake unless vast quantities of cement, steel and other building materials are allowed into the territory for reconstruction. (Mohammed Abed / AFP/Getty Images)
A Palestinian man sits on land were his home in Gaza City used to be, it was demolished by Israeli soldiers during the assault. Efforts to restore normal life in Gaza continued, with schools reopening and garbage trucks rolling out in the streets. (Olivier Laban-Mattei / AFP/Getty Images)
An Israeli soldier fires at Palestinian stone-throwers during a protest against Israel’s offensive in Gaza, in the West Bank city of Hebron. As diplomats edged closer Friday to a cease-fire deal for the Gaza Strip, a top Hamas official vowed there would be no truce until Israel ended its invasion of the Palestinian enclave. (Abed Al Hafiz Hashlamoun / EPA)
A Palestinian boy throws stones after the Friday noon prayer outside the a mosque in east Jerusalem. (Ahmad Gharabli / AFP/Getty Images)
An Israeli soldier jumps off an armored vehicle carrying a flag of Israel’s 60th anniversary as he celebrates with his unit their return from the
A controlled explosion by the Israeli army demolishes a Palestinian home in the
Palestinians gather on the site where Said Siam, interior minister in
A Palestinian man cries after hearing the news of the death of his relative outside the morgue of Shifa hospital in
Israeli police arrive during clashes with a group of Palestinians after noon prayer Friday in East Jerusalem. (Ahmad Gharabli / AFP/Getty Images)
A Palestinian girl and her mother walk near Israeli riot police in Arab East Jerusalem. (Patrick Baz / AFP/Getty Images)
Palestinians hurl stones toward Israeli soldiers during a protest against Israeli strikes on Gaza in the West Bank city of Hebron. (Abed Al Hafiz Hashlamoun / EPA)
A firefighter douses what was a United Nations warehouse in Gaza City after the main UN compound in Gaza came under fire from Israeli troops Thursday. UN Secretary-General
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Palestinians protest against Israel’s military operation in
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A Palestinian firefighter tries to put out a fire and save bags of food at the
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Israeli firefighters extinguish a car fire after a rocket attack in the southern city of Beersheba.
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Spanish U.N. peacekeepers, foreground, and Lebanese army soldiers stand next a rocket that was discovered, set to be fired, on a wooden platform in southern Lebanon north of the Israeli border. Rockets were fired Wednesday morning from Lebanon into Israel. The Israeli military said they caused no injuries and no damage. After that initial barrage, several more rockets that were set to be fired were discovered and dismantled by Lebanese troops, security officials said.
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Palestinians gather following an Israeli airstrike in Gaza City on Tuesday.
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An Israeli army soldier is among those stationed in a staging area near the country’s border with Gaza. On the 18th day of fighting in the territory, Israeli ground forces and members of Hamas battled in a neighborhood of high-rise apartments in Gaza City, about a mile from the city center.
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Hamas rockets continue to fall in Israeli territory. One rocket landed on a two-story house in Ashkelon and a woman who lived there was taken to the hospital after a panic attack.
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Etti Ben Dayan is transported to the hospital from her Ashkelon home after a Hamas rocket landed on the second floor. She had a panic attack.
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Israeli forces continue to bomb Gaza on Monday while Hamas rockets continue to fall in Israeli territory.
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An Israeli army mortar squad fires a round toward a target in the Gaza Strip from the Israeli side of the border on Monday. 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. Reported casualties were low, an indication that Hamas was largely avoiding pitched battles with the advancing Israelis.
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Palestinians who fled their homes eat at a
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A Palestinian woman carries a mattress from the rubble of a building in an area targeted by Israeli air strikes in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip on Monday. Israel has stepped up the pressure on Hamas ahead of deciding whether to escalate its devastating two-week offensive.
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On Sunday, an Ultra Orthodox Jewish man carrying a shofar watches as smoke billows from inside the Gaza Strip. Israeli troops pushed deeper into Gaza’s main city, sparking some of the fiercest battles yet of the 16-day-old campaign.
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Israeli missile strikes continued in Gaza City on Sunday.
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A wounded Palestinian child is carried into the Kamal Adwan hospital after an Israeli air strike in the city of Beit Lahia, in northern Gaza. According to Palestinian medical sources, 46 people have been killed Sunday in Gaza. (Abid Katib / Getty Images)
Palestinian boys hold up leaflets dropped by Israeli planes on Sunday over the Gaza Strip warning residents that Israel was about to escalate fighting. (Said Khatib / AFP / Getty Images)
Smoke rises from the edges of Gaza City on Sunday afternoon. (Carolyn Cole / Los Angeles Times)
Residents walk by a bomb shelter on Sunday in Sderot, Israel. The southern town of Sderot has had hundreds of Hamas-fired rockets directed at it. (Spencer Platt / Getty Images)
Israeli helicopters continued their aerial assault Saturday evening as Israeli-Gaza fighting entered a third week.
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The aerial campaign between Israeli forces and Hamas draws spectators on Saturday afternoon.
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On Saturday morning, Hamas forces fire two rockets in the direction of Sderot, Israel.
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After a siren’s blast, Israeli security service personnel take cover in Sderot. Two Hamas rockets were fired at the city. One landed on a main highway, narrowly missing a car.
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As Israeli soldiers leave the border with Gaza at dusk Saturday, one makes the sign of victory.
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Smoke is seen from Israeli miltary operations in Gaza City. 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 offensive against Hamas.
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A Palestinian man carries belongings from the rubble of a building following an Israeli airstrike in the Rafah refugee camp, in the southern Gaza Strip, on Saturday.
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Palestinians crowd in to request food aid at a
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A Palestinian man is silhouetted amid the rubble of a building destroyed in an Israeli airstrike on the Rafah refugee camp.
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Israeli police dodge stones thrown by Palestinian protesters during a clash in east Jerusalem.
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Palestinian demonstrators wave Hamas’ green flag during a demonstration in the West Bank city of Hebron. About 3,000 people marched against Israel’s military action in the Gaza Strip.
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Smoke billows after an Israeli airstrike in the Gaza Strip.
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Israeli soldiers fire tear gas canisters while confronting Palestinian demonstrators at the West Bank checkpoint of Kalandia near Ramallah. Supporters of the Hamas movement also clashed with members of the rival Fatah party during protests in Ramallah against the Israeli offensive in the Gaza Strip.
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Young Palestinians flee Israeli riot police during clashes in the east Jerusalem neighborhood of Ras-Alamud.
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Palestinian demonstrators gather stones to throw at Israeli soldiers in the West Bank city of Hebron.
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Israeli border police fire tear gas at Palestinian demonstrators in the West Bank city of Hebron.
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Tanks line up along the Israeli-Gaza border as the military campaign against Hamas continues. (Carolyn Cole / Los Angeles Times)
Friends and family grieve for Sgt. Amit Robinson, 20, a radio operator in the Israeli military who was killed by Hamas sniper fire. (Carolyn Cole / Los Angeles Times)
Ran Ben Shalom, age 19, kneels beside the grave of his friend and fellow Israeli soldier Sgt. Amit Robinson, 20. (Carolyn Cole / Los Angeles Times)
An Israeli inspection team searches food shipments bound for Gaza at the Rafia border crossing Thursday, hours before a U.N. driver was shot and killed.
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Israeli infantry soldiers catch some sleep at a blast barrier just inside the Israeli border with the Gaza Strip.
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Israeli artillery units fire toward Gaza.
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People inspect damage to a retirement home after a rocket fired by Lebanese militants struck the building in the northern Israeli town of Nahariya.
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Palestinian militants launch a rocket toward southern Israel from the outskirts of Gaza City.
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An Israeli woman is overcome with emotion after a missile fired at the town of Sderot landed within yards of her apartment building.
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An Israeli soldier insists that a photographer leave an area near the Israel-Gaza border.
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Palestinian doctors treat a wounded man on the floor of a hospital in Beit Lahia, in the northern Gaza Strip.
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Palestinians shop for vegetables at a stall in Gaza City during a three-hour suspension of fire on Thursday. The pause in fighting also allowed rescuers to search for bodies amid the debris.
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Palestinian protesters in the West Bank throw stones at Israeli solders during a demonstration.
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Near the Erez border crossing on Wednesday, Israeli teens post a sign showing their support for Israeli troops fighting in Gaza.
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Colleagues of Israeli army Staff Sgt. Alex Mashavisky, who died during combat in Gaza, mourn over his grave during his funeral Wednesday in Beer Sheva, Israel.
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A Palestinian man carries his son, wounded in the Israeli attacks, into Shifa hospital in Gaza City.
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Israeli soldiers gesture from an armored personnel carrier at the start of a temporary ceasefire along the Israeli-Gaza border in Israel.
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Family members cry during a funeral for 10 relatives who were killed Tuesday in an Israeli attack on a United Nations school in Gaza. Israel said Hamas militants had been firing mortar rounds from the school.
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The body of a Palestinian girl is found in the rubble of her destroyed house after an Israeli missile strike east of Gaza City. The other members of the family that occupied the house were also reported killed.
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Palestinian families who fled their homes because of the Israeli military offensive in the Gaza Strip take shelter at a school run by the
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A Palestinian man carries a wounded girl into Gaza City’s Shifa Hospital. The 11-day-old Israeli offensive in the Gaza Strip has killed more than 575 Palestinians, according to Gaza hospital authorities.
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Palestinians transport the bodies of 13 people killed in an Israeli air strike overnight on a house belonging to a Hamas member in eastern Gaza City. Medics said the dead, including several children, were members of the same extended family.
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The coffin of Israeli Army Maj. Dagan Vertman, killed in the Israeli attack on the Gaza Strip, is carried to the military cemetery in Jerusalem as his family follows.
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Fellow Israeli soldiers mourn at the burial of Maj. Dagan Vertman, who was killed in the Gaza assault.
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Israeli troops take up positions on a hill overlooking Gaza at sunset.
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Even during the Israeli-Gaza conflict, Matab Alwalede continues to do his job herding cattle on the Israeli side of the border. Matab, 18, says he is used to the sound of the bombing and the missiles being fired, but that the horses and dogs get nervous. Matab is a full-time ranch hand and watches over some 200 head of cattle.
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An Israeli soldier fires at Palestinian protesters demonstrating against the Israeli strikes on Gaza in the West Bank town of Yatta near Hebron.
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Palestinian children and their families from Beit Lahia in the northern Gaza Strip take shelter at a school run by the
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A Palestinian father carries the body of his 1-year-old son, Mohammed al Samone, to the hospital after he was killed during an Israeli raid east of Gaza City. Israel began a ground assault late Saturday after eight days of air strikes.
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Palestinian relatives of Hamas fighter Mohamed Abu Naja, who was killed in an Israeli air strike, mourn during his funeral in Rafah in southern
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Palestinians carry the bodies of three toddlers -- Ahmed, Mohamed and Issa Samouni -- during their funeral in Gaza City. According to Palestinian medical sources, the three were killed in an Israeli strike.
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