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Chronicles of war


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Chronicles of War


Warning: Many of these photographs are graphic in nature.

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Palestinians search for survivors Monday under the debris of a destroyed house in Gaza City.Photo by Wissam Nassar/Xinhua/Zuma Press  

Israeli security personnel look at a window damaged by shrapnel after a short-range rocket landed near the Erez crossing. An Israeli civilian was killed by the rocket fired from the Gaza Strip, the military said, the first Israeli fatality in more than a week of fighting with Palestinian militants. The Islamist group Hamas that rules Gaza claimed responsibility for launching the short-range rocket that struck an area along the border with Gaza. Finbarr O'Reilly/Reuters 

Jul 11, 2014. Smoke rises from the peace activists boat 'Gaza's Ark' following an Israeli air strike during the fighting between


 Israeli
 navy and Hamas militants next to the beach in the west of Gaza City.
Smoke rises from the peace activists boat 'Gaza's Ark' following an Israeli air strike during the fighting between Israeli navy and Hamas militants next to the beach in the west of Gaza City. (Momen Faiz—NurPhoto/Corbis)

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Palestinians search for survivors under the debris of a destroyed house in Gaza City on Monday. Photo by Wissam Nassar/Xinhua/Zuma Press

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Relatives of Plaestinian Islamic Jihad militant Abduallah El-Buhasi, who medics said was killed in an Israeli airstrike, mourn during his funeral in Deir El-Balah in the central Gaza Strip on Tuesday. Photo by Ibraheem Abu Mustafa/Reuters.

Palestinian relatives of Roshdi Naser, mourn during his funeral in the Khan Younis refugee camp in the southern Gaza Strip, Saturday, July 19, 2014. Naser and eight others were killed in an early morning Israeli missile strike, officials said. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)

A Palestinian woman sits inside her damaged house,
 which police said was targeted in an Israeli air strike,
 in Gaza City July 17, 2014. REUTERS-Finbarr O'Reilly
A Palestinian woman sits inside her damaged house, which police said was targeted in an Israeli air strike, in Gaza City July 17, 2014. REUTERS/Finbarr O'Reilly

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A Palestinian woman cries as she flees from a Gaza City neighborhood during an Israeli military operation. Photo by
Mohammed Saber/European Pressphoto Agency

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Palestinians arrive at a hospital in Gaza City on Sunday.Photo by Thomas Coex/Agence France-Presse/Getty
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Palestinians flee their homes in Gaza's eastern Shejaiya district on July 20, 2014, after heavy Israeli shelling that left casualties lying in the streets, an AFP correspondent reported. Ambulances were unable to reach much of the area along the border because of heavy fire, and emergency services told AFP there were reports of dead and wounded trapped by the bombardment. (Mohammed Abed/AFP/Getty Images)

Palestinian medics tend to a boy who they said was wounded in an Israeli shelling, at a hospital, in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip July 21, 2014. REUTERS-Ibraheem Abu Mustafa
Palestinian medics tend to a boy who they said was wounded in an Israeli shelling, at a hospital, in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip July 21, 2014. REUTERS/Ibraheem Abu Mustafa


A Palestinian man holds the hand of a badly wounded woman, who medics said was wounded in an Israeli air strike, in the northern Gaza Strip on July 20, 2014. (Reuters/Abed Abu Reyash)

Lifeless bodies of children lay in the morgue of the Shifa hospital in Gaza City on July 20, 2014. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)

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Children sleep in a medical center in the Gaza Strip on Monday. Photo by Ezz Al-Zanoun/NurPhoto/Zuma Press

A Palestinian medic evacuates the body of a girl from Gaza's eastern Shejaiya district on July 20, 2014. (Thomas Coex/AFP/Getty Images)

A Palestinian woman wearing clothes stained with the blood of other relatives, who medics said were wounded in Israeli shelling, cries at a hospital in Gaza City July 20, 2014. REUTERS-Mohammed Salem
A Palestinian woman wearing clothes stained with the blood of other relatives, who medics said were wounded in Israeli shelling, cries at a hospital in Gaza City July 20, 2014. REUTERS/Mohammed Salem

Netream Netzleam holds the body of her
 daughter Razel, 1, who medics said died on Friday from injuries sustained in an Israeli air strike on Thursday
 afternoon, at
 her funeral in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip July 18, 2014. REUTERS-Finbarr O'Reilly
Netream Netzleam holds the body of her daughter Razel, 1, who medics said died on Friday from injuries sustained in an Israeli air strike on Thursday afternoon, at her funeral in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip July 18, 2014.
REUTERS/Finbarr O'Reilly

The aunt of Palestinian boy Mohammed Ayad, who medics said was killed during heavy Israeli shelling, mourns as she looks at his body during his funeral in Gaza City July 21, 2014.REUTERS-Mohammed Salem
The aunt of Palestinian boy Mohammed Ayad, who medics said was killed during heavy Israeli shelling, mourns as she looks at his body during his funeral in Gaza City July 21, 2014.
REUTERS/Mohammed Salem

Jul. 9, 2014. Family
 members pray in the mosque in
 Sajeria,
 Gaza, by the bodies of Amir
 and Mohammed during their funeral.
Family members pray in the mosque in Sajeria, Gaza, by the bodies of Amir and Mohammed during their funeral. (Heidi Levine—SIPA)

A man sits next to the bodies of Palestinians from Abu Jama'e family, who medics said were killed in an Israeli air strike that destroyed their house, during their funeral at a mosque in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip July 21,
 2014.REUTERS-Ibraheem Abu Mustafa
A man sits next to the bodies of Palestinians from Abu Jama'e family, who medics said were killed in an Israeli air strike that destroyed their house, during their funeral at a mosque in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip July 21, 2014. REUTERS/Ibraheem Abu Mustafa

Palestinian touches the forehead of a member of the Abu-Hasira family, who medics said was killed in an Israeli air strike, at a funeral in Gaza City, July 22, 2014. REUTERS-Finbarr O'Reilly
Palestinian touches the forehead of a member of the Abu-Hasira family, who medics said was killed in an Israeli air strike, at a funeral in Gaza City, July 22, 2014. REUTERS/Finbarr O'Reilly


The body of a child lies in the morgue of the al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City on July 20, 2014. At least 40 people were killed and nearly 400 wounded in Israeli shelling of the Shejaiya district overnight, medics said. (Mohammed Abed/AFP/Getty Images)

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The mother of Israeli soldier Tal Yifrah mourns over his flag-covered coffin during his funeral in Rishon Lezion near Tel Aviv on Tuesday. Photo by Ronen Zvulun/Reuters

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In Holon, Israel, family members of Major Tsafrir Bar-Or seen by the coffin during his funeral on Monday. The officer was killed during operation Protective Edge.Photo by Ilia Yefimovich/Getty Images

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Israeli soldier Tal Yifrah's girlfriend mourns at his grave during his funeral in Rishon Lezion near Tel Aviv on Tuesday. The Gaza conflict's death toll rose on both sides and the U.S. pressed the territory's Hamas rulers to accept an Egyptian cease-fire proposal. Photo by Ronen Zvulun/Reuters

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A Palestinian youth, holding a Quran, Islam's holy book, poses for photographers as he stands in the rubble of the Al Aqsa Martyrs mosque in Gaza City, destroyed by an overnight Israeli strike, Tuesday, July 22, 2014. Diplomatic efforts intensified to end the two week war that has killed hundreds of Palestinians and dozens of Israelis.
Lefteris Pitarakis | AP

A Palestinian shepherd holding a white cloth flees her house with her herd following an Israeli ground offensive in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip July 19, 2014. REUTERS-Ibraheem Abu Mustafa
A Palestinian shepherd holding a white cloth flees her house with her herd following an Israeli ground offensive in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip July 19, 2014. REUTERS/Ibraheem Abu Mustafa
 

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