The conflict in the Mideast has intensified in the last month with turbulent fighting in Gaza strip. Over 800 Palestinians have been killed and over 5,000 injured, according to Palestinan health officials. World leaders have been working on a truce between Hamas and Israel to end the bloodshed
Smoke and flames are seen following what police said was an Israeli air strike in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip July 8. Israel bombarded dozens of targets in the Gaza Strip on, stepping up what it said might become a long-term offensive against Islamist Hamas after a surge in Palestinian rocket attacks on Israeli towns.
Palestinians clash with Israeli soldiers at the gates of the Beit El Jewish settlement in the Israel occupied West Bank near Ramallah on July 9, as they protest against the bombardment of the Gaza Strip by the Israeli air force
Mourners gather at a funeral at a mosque in Rafah, southern Gaza Strip, July 15, for Sarah Omar el-Eid, 4, bottom, and her father, Omar, 26, center, and her uncle Jihad, 27, top. The three were killed by an Israeli strike.
A girl and her mother, who are hoping to cross into Egypt, look out a bus window as they wait at the Rafah crossing between Egypt and the southern Gaza Strip July 16. Egyptian authorities decided to open the Rafah border crossing to Gaza to allow wounded Palestinians to receive medical care in Egypt, and to allow holders of foreign passports, including Egyptians, to leave the Strip, border officials in Gaza said
Israelis look up at an Iron Dome missile as it intercepts a rocket that was fired towards Israel from the Gaza Strip at a hilltop near Sderot in this July 13. Israel resumed air strikes in the Gaza Strip on after agreeing to an Egyptian-proposed ceasefire deal that failed to get Hamas militants to halt rocket attacks.
Palestinian firefighters try to extinguish fire at UN storehouse after an Israeli military strike in an area west of Gaza City on July 12.
An Israeli woman takes cover at the side of the road as warning sirens for incoming rockets sound near the southern Israeli town of Kiryat Malachi, Israel, July 16. Israel warned residents of the northern Gaza Strip to leave their houses as a Palestinian official said the number of people killed in the coastal enclave from Israeli airstrikes had topped 200.
Elderly Israeli women sleep in a bomb shelter in the southern city of Beersheba, Israel, July 12. Israeli airstrikes overnight targeting Hamas in Gaza hit a mosque its military says concealed the militant group's weapons, in an offensive that showed no signs of slowing down
A girl cries as Palestinians flee their homes in the Shajaiyeh neighborhood of Gaza City, after Israel had airdropped leaflets warning people to leave the area, July 16
Palestinians carry the body of a boy, whom medics said was killed by a shell fired by an Israeli naval gunboat, on a beach in Gaza City, July 16. Four Palestinian children were killed and one was critically wounded on the Gaza beach on by the shell fired by the Israeli naval gunboat, a Palestinian health official said
Relatives of four Palestinian children from the Baker family, whom medics said were killed by a shell fired by an Israeli naval gunboat, mourn during their funeral in Gaza City, July 16
Israelis and tourists take cover after running from the beach during a rocket attack fired by Palestinian militants from the Gaza Strip on July 15, in Tel Aviv, Israel.
A Palestinian woman (L) cries inside her damaged house, which police said was targeted in an Israeli air strike, in Gaza City July 17.
Israeli reserve soldiers go inside a cement pipe used as an air raid bomb shelter in a field along the southern Israeli border with the Gaza Strip, early July 15, when several 'red alert' alerts sounded
An Israeli woman and her son take cover as a siren sounds during a rocket attack fired by Palestinians militants from Gaza, in Tel Aviv, Israel, July 15
Palestinians sleep at the yard of a UN school in the northern Gaza Strip town of Beit Lahiya early on July 16, after evacuating their houses near the border with Israel
A mourner weeps over the body of Dror Khenin as he is lowered into the ground at a cemetary after his funeral on July 16, in Yahud Monoson, Israel. Khenin was the first Israeli to be killed by a Hamas motar as he offered food to Israeli soldiers working near the Erez border crossing between Israel and Gaza
Israeli armored personnel carriers maneuvre outside the northern Gaza Strip July 18. Israel intensified its land offensive in Gaza with artillery, tanks and gunboats on and warned it could "significantly widen" an operation Palestinian officials said was killing ever greater numbers of civilians. The Israeli land advance followed 10 days of barrages against Gaza from air and sea, hundreds of rockets fired by Hamas into Israel and failed attempts by Egypt, a broker of ceasefires in previous Israeli-Palestinian flare-ups, to secure a truce
Palestinians live at a United Nations school where dozens of families have sought refuge after fleeing their homes following heavy Israeli forces' strikes in Beit Hanoun, northern Gaza Strip. Disagreement over whether to lift the Gaza blockade is a key stumbling block to ending fighting between the Islamic militant Hamas and Israel. Some in Gaza say they would rather endure more fighting than return to life under the blockade
Palestinian medics treat a wounded girl at the emergency room of the Shifa hospital in Gaza City, northern Gaza Strip, July 18.
Smoke and flames are seen following what police said was an Israeli air strike in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip July 8. Israel bombarded dozens of targets in the Gaza Strip on, stepping up what it said might become a long-term offensive against Islamist Hamas after a surge in Palestinian rocket attacks on Israeli towns.
Palestinians clash with Israeli soldiers at the gates of the Beit El Jewish settlement in the Israel occupied West Bank near Ramallah on July 9, as they protest against the bombardment of the Gaza Strip by the Israeli air force
Mourners gather at a funeral at a mosque in Rafah, southern Gaza Strip, July 15, for Sarah Omar el-Eid, 4, bottom, and her father, Omar, 26, center, and her uncle Jihad, 27, top. The three were killed by an Israeli strike.
A girl and her mother, who are hoping to cross into Egypt, look out a bus window as they wait at the Rafah crossing between Egypt and the southern Gaza Strip July 16. Egyptian authorities decided to open the Rafah border crossing to Gaza to allow wounded Palestinians to receive medical care in Egypt, and to allow holders of foreign passports, including Egyptians, to leave the Strip, border officials in Gaza said
Israelis look up at an Iron Dome missile as it intercepts a rocket that was fired towards Israel from the Gaza Strip at a hilltop near Sderot in this July 13. Israel resumed air strikes in the Gaza Strip on after agreeing to an Egyptian-proposed ceasefire deal that failed to get Hamas militants to halt rocket attacks.
Palestinian firefighters try to extinguish fire at UN storehouse after an Israeli military strike in an area west of Gaza City on July 12.
An Israeli woman takes cover at the side of the road as warning sirens for incoming rockets sound near the southern Israeli town of Kiryat Malachi, Israel, July 16. Israel warned residents of the northern Gaza Strip to leave their houses as a Palestinian official said the number of people killed in the coastal enclave from Israeli airstrikes had topped 200.
Elderly Israeli women sleep in a bomb shelter in the southern city of Beersheba, Israel, July 12. Israeli airstrikes overnight targeting Hamas in Gaza hit a mosque its military says concealed the militant group's weapons, in an offensive that showed no signs of slowing down
A girl cries as Palestinians flee their homes in the Shajaiyeh neighborhood of Gaza City, after Israel had airdropped leaflets warning people to leave the area, July 16
Palestinians carry the body of a boy, whom medics said was killed by a shell fired by an Israeli naval gunboat, on a beach in Gaza City, July 16. Four Palestinian children were killed and one was critically wounded on the Gaza beach on by the shell fired by the Israeli naval gunboat, a Palestinian health official said
Relatives of four Palestinian children from the Baker family, whom medics said were killed by a shell fired by an Israeli naval gunboat, mourn during their funeral in Gaza City, July 16
Israelis and tourists take cover after running from the beach during a rocket attack fired by Palestinian militants from the Gaza Strip on July 15, in Tel Aviv, Israel.
A Palestinian woman (L) cries inside her damaged house, which police said was targeted in an Israeli air strike, in Gaza City July 17.
Israeli reserve soldiers go inside a cement pipe used as an air raid bomb shelter in a field along the southern Israeli border with the Gaza Strip, early July 15, when several 'red alert' alerts sounded
An Israeli woman and her son take cover as a siren sounds during a rocket attack fired by Palestinians militants from Gaza, in Tel Aviv, Israel, July 15
Palestinians sleep at the yard of a UN school in the northern Gaza Strip town of Beit Lahiya early on July 16, after evacuating their houses near the border with Israel
A mourner weeps over the body of Dror Khenin as he is lowered into the ground at a cemetary after his funeral on July 16, in Yahud Monoson, Israel. Khenin was the first Israeli to be killed by a Hamas motar as he offered food to Israeli soldiers working near the Erez border crossing between Israel and Gaza
Israeli armored personnel carriers maneuvre outside the northern Gaza Strip July 18. Israel intensified its land offensive in Gaza with artillery, tanks and gunboats on and warned it could "significantly widen" an operation Palestinian officials said was killing ever greater numbers of civilians. The Israeli land advance followed 10 days of barrages against Gaza from air and sea, hundreds of rockets fired by Hamas into Israel and failed attempts by Egypt, a broker of ceasefires in previous Israeli-Palestinian flare-ups, to secure a truce
Palestinians live at a United Nations school where dozens of families have sought refuge after fleeing their homes following heavy Israeli forces' strikes in Beit Hanoun, northern Gaza Strip. Disagreement over whether to lift the Gaza blockade is a key stumbling block to ending fighting between the Islamic militant Hamas and Israel. Some in Gaza say they would rather endure more fighting than return to life under the blockade
Palestinian medics treat a wounded girl at the emergency room of the Shifa hospital in Gaza City, northern Gaza Strip, July 18.
