Fearful times

Fearful times

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A young relative of Gaza police chief Tayseer Al-Batsh mourns during the funeral of his family members, who hospital officials said were killed in an Israeli air strike.

Images of destruction have been flowing in since the on-going Palestinian-Israeli conflict flared up again in recent days, with Palestinian rockets being fired at Israel and Israeli air strikes hitting the Gaza Strip.

. TEL AVIV, Israel. REUTERS/Nir Elias

The current hostilities were triggered by the kidnap and killing of three Jewish seminary students (pictured above) and the subsequent revenge murder of a Palestinian youth.

Rising tension swiftly turned to all-out conflict.

. ASHDOD, Israel. REUTERS/Baz Ratner

In the image above, an Iron Dome launcher fires an interceptor rocket in the southern Israeli city of Ashdod on July 8, when cross-border fighting with Hamas-led militants surged.

After a week of fighting, Egypt proposed a ceasefire between Israel and Palestinian militants in Gaza that would start on July 15.

Israel unilaterally accepted but the dominant Palestinian Islamist group Hamas said it had not been consulted by Cairo and kept up rocket attacks while Israel held back for six hours.

With tension escalating, on July 16 Israel urged the evacuation of several Gaza Strip areas where more than 100,000 people live, threatening ground operations.

. GAZA CITY, Palestinian Territories. REUTERS/Mohammed Salem

Palestinians gather around the remains of a house which police said was destroyed in an Israeli air strike in Gaza City.

Gaza health officials said the death toll in the coastal enclave had risen to 202 and that most of the dead were civilians.

World powers urged calm, worried about spiralling casualties should Israel send tens of thousands of troops it has mobilised into Gaza.

It is one of the world's mostly densely populated areas, its poverty exacerbated by the collapse of public works and displacement of at least 18,000 Palestinians who the UN said have taken shelter at its Gaza City schools.

. GAZA BORDER, Israel. REUTERS/Amir Cohen

With Palestinian fire having inflicted the first Israeli fatality of the conflict - a civilian bringing food to soldiers near Gaza - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed to "expand and intensify" to stop persistent rocket strikes that have made a race for shelters a daily routine for hundreds of thousands in the Jewish state.

In the image above, Israelis take cover on the side of a road as a siren warns of incoming rockets outside the northern Gaza Strip.

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Flares fired by the Israeli military above the northern Gaza Strip are seen from the Israeli town of Sderot.
. SDEROT, Israel. REUTERS/Baz Ratner

Flares fired by the Israeli military above the northern Gaza Strip are seen from the Israeli town of Sderot.

A relative of three members of Abu Muamar’s family, who hospital officials said were killed in an Israeli air strike on their house, looks out of a window as she mourns during their funeral in Rafah.
. RAFAH, Palestinian Territories. REUTERS/Ibraheem Abu Mustafa

A relative of three members of Abu Muamar’s family, who hospital officials said were killed in an Israeli air strike on their house, looks out of a window as she mourns during their funeral in Rafah.

A Palestinian boy carries belongings as he walks through the ruins of his family home, which police said was targeted in an Israeli air strike in Gaza City.
. GAZA CITY, Palestinian Territories. REUTERS/Mohammed Salem

A Palestinian boy carries belongings as he walks through the ruins of his family home, which police said was targeted in an Israeli air strike in Gaza City.

An injured Palestinian girl from Gaza cries as she receives treatment at the Al Hussein Medical Center in Amman.
. AMMAN, Jordan. REUTERS/Muhammad Hamed

An injured Palestinian girl from Gaza cries as she receives treatment at the Al Hussein Medical Center in Amman.

Palestinians search for victims under the rubble of a house which police said was destroyed in an Israeli air strike.
. RAFAH, Palestinian Territories. REUTERS/Ibraheem Abu Mustafa

Palestinians search for victims under the rubble of a house which police said was destroyed in an Israeli air strike.

Palestinians search amongst the rubble of Gaza police chief Tayseer Al-Batsh's family house, which police said was destroyed in an Israeli air strike in Gaza City. The attack on his home killed 18 people according to the health ministry.
. GAZA CITY, Palestinian Territories. REUTERS/Mohammed Salem

Palestinians search amongst the rubble of Gaza police chief Tayseer Al-Batsh's family house, which police said was destroyed in an Israeli air strike in Gaza City. The attack on his home killed 18 people according to the health ministry.

Mourners carry the body of Palestinian Islamic Jihad militant Mohammed Sweilem, who medics said was killed in an Israeli air strike, in Jabalya refugee camp.
. GAZA, Palestinian Territories. REUTERS/Mohammed Salem

Mourners carry the body of Palestinian Islamic Jihad militant Mohammed Sweilem, who medics said was killed in an Israeli air strike, in Jabalya refugee camp.

Palestinians hold their passports as they try to cross into Egypt from Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip.
. RAFAH, Palestinian Territories. REUTERS/Ibraheem Abu Mustafa

Palestinians hold their passports as they try to cross into Egypt from Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip.

Smoke trails are seen as rockets are launched towards Israel from the northern Gaza Strip.
. ASHKELON, Israel. REUTERS/Amir Cohen

Smoke trails are seen as rockets are launched towards Israel from the northern Gaza Strip.

Israelis take cover as an air raid siren warning of incoming rockets sounds in Ashdod.
. ASHDOD, Israel. REUTERS/Amir Cohen

Israelis take cover as an air raid siren warning of incoming rockets sounds in Ashdod.

Israelis stand at the scene after a rocket fired by Palestinian militants in Gaza landed in Ashdod.
. ASHDOD, Israel. REUTERS/Amir Cohen

Israelis stand at the scene after a rocket fired by Palestinian militants in Gaza landed in Ashdod.

Israeli firefighters extinguish a fire that broke out after a rocket hit a petrol station.
. ASHDOD, Israel. REUTERS/Avi Roccah

Israeli firefighters extinguish a fire that broke out after a rocket hit a petrol station.

A security worker stands next to a damaged car after it was hit by what Israeli police say was a rocket attack.
. ASHDOD, Israel. REUTERS/Amir Cohen

A security worker stands next to a damaged car after it was hit by what Israeli police say was a rocket attack.

A woman lies with her baby on the floor of a shopping mall as an air raid siren, warning of incoming rockets, sounds in Tel Aviv.
. TEL AVIV, Israel. REUTERS/Daniel Bar-On

A woman lies with her baby on the floor of a shopping mall as an air raid siren, warning of incoming rockets, sounds in Tel Aviv.

Israelis take cover in a stairwell during an air raid warning.
. TEL AVIV, Israel. REUTERS/Finbarr O'Reilly

Israelis take cover in a stairwell during an air raid warning.

A girl leaves a bomb shelter in the southern city of Ashkelon.
. ASHKELON, Israel. REUTERS/Baz Ratner

A girl leaves a bomb shelter in the southern city of Ashkelon.

Residents take cover in a concrete pipe used as a bomb shelter as a siren warns of incoming rockets.
. NITZAN, Israel. REUTERS/Finbarr O'Reilly

Residents take cover in a concrete pipe used as a bomb shelter as a siren warns of incoming rockets.

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