The military operation in the Gaza Strip was launched on July 8
© EPA/MOHAMMED SABER Over 500 people have been killed and more that 3,000 injured in Gaza over the past two weeks.
© EPA/MOHAMMED SABER More than 100,000 people have left their homes
© EPA/MOHAMMED SABER Nearly 500 homes have been destroyed in the airstrikes
© EPA/MOHAMMED SABER As many as 121 Palestinian children have been killed and 904 injured as a result of Israel’s air military operation in the Gaza Strip
© AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis According to UNICEF, children make one-third of the total number of victims among peaceful civilians
© EPA/MOHAMMED SABER The immediate reason for the operation was that cities in southern Israel were massively shelled by Hamas military wing
© EPA/MOHAMMED SABER On July 15, there was a brief ceasefire. Israel's Defense Forces abstained from strikes on the Gaza Strip for six hours abiding by a ceasefire agreement suggested as part of Egypt’s peace initiative
© EPA/ABIR SULTAN Palestinian militants rejected Cairo’s plan of a ceasefire and continued rocket attacks on Israel. Photo: a home in the town of Yehud, outside Tel Aviv, hit by a missile fired by Palestinian militants
© EPA/GIDEON MARKOWICZ The ground phase of the military operation against Hamas militants began on July 17
© EPA/ABIR SULTAN Israeli tank fires near the border with Gaza
© EPA/ABIR SULTAN Israeli military patrol near the border with Gaza
© EPA/ABIR SULTAN The Israeli army’s casualties on the sixth day from the beginning of the ground phase of the operation in Gaza have reached 27 killed and 123 wounded
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