Protests, hardship as Gaza blockade continues

Residents of the Israeli city of Ashkelon protest against rockets attacks into Israel from the Gaza Strip. Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni spoke by telephone with United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon and “demanded that the international community stop applying a policy of ignoring acts of terror aimed at hurting innocent people,” her office said in a statement.  (David Buimovitch – AFP/Getty Images)

A member of the ultra-Orthodox Neturei Karta sect, which opposes Zionism, holds a sign protesting the siege on the Gaza Strip. He is standing outside the tent of Fawzia al-Kurd and her family, who were evicted from their home in Arab East Jerusalem. On July 16, the Israeli High Court ruled in favor of Israeli settlers who were already occupying a wing of the house and were demanding the expulsion of the Kurd family from the rest of the property.  (Ahmad Gharabli – AFP/Getty Images)

Palestinian girls shout slogans during a demonstration in front of the United Nations headquarters in Gaza City. The blockage has worsened fuel shortages and has led to frequent blackouts across the territory Gaza. The flow of food, supplies and even cash has been disrupted.  (Adel Hana / Associated Press)

Gaza schoolgirls eat sandwiches provided by the United Nations at a U.N. elementary school in Shati refugee camp in Gaza City. Most of the population depends on international humanitarian aid. Hamas authorities suspended welfare payments to 98,000 residents after Israel turned back shipments of cash from the Palestinian Authority government in the West Bank.  (Adel Hana / Associated Press)

A Palestinian girl holds a sign that reads “ It’s my right to live in peace” during a demonstration in front of the Egyptian Embassy in Gaza City.  (Adel Hana / Associated Press)

At a Jerusalem coffee shop, an Israeli newspaper is opened to the page of an advertisement taken out by the Palestinian Authority. In the Hebrew-language ads, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas takes his case for a peace deal directly to Israelis, arguing that an Israeli withdrawal from the West Bank, Gaza Strip and parts of Jerusalem would bring them full recognition by the Arab world. The ad says 57 Arab and Muslim countries would establish diplomatic ties with Israel in exchange for a withdrawal from the lands that would make up a Palestinian state.  (Sebastian Scheiner / Associated Press)

Palestinians show ID cards to collect food aid at a United Nations distribution center in the Shati refugee camp in Gaza City.  (Adel Hana / Associated Press)

A Palestinian carries food supplies on a donkey cart as he and others collect aid at the United Nations distribution center in the Shati refugee camp. The U.N. Relief and Works Agency, the larger of the two U.N. suppliers of humanitarian aid in the territory, has only enough to last through this weekend.  (Adel Hana / Associated Press)

Palestinians take home sacks of food from the U.N. distribution center in Shati refugee camp.  (Adel Hana / Associated Press)

A man makes clay ovens to sell in Gaza City on Wednesday. With power outages in the Hamas-run territory, some residents are turning to traditional clay ovens to meet their needs, including baking their own bread with U.N.-supplied flour as bakeries shut down.  (Mohammed Abed – AFP/Getty Images)

An employee walks above silos at the Palestinian flour mills company in Deir al-Balah, in central Gaza , which halted operations Wednesday amid a shortage of wheat. A bakers association said 27 of Gaza’s 47 bakeries were closed Thursday for lack of flour.  (Said Khatib – AFP/Getty Images)

With a shortage of cooking gas, a man cooks chicken on a wood-fueled stove in an outdoor kitchen in Gaza City. He said the food was for poor families and hospital patients.  (Adel Hana / Associated Press)