audio, stills, text and or video: Go to zReportage.com to see more - The Gaza Strip is a Detroit-sized area on the border with Egypt up against the Mediterranean Sea that is one of the most densely packed places on Earth. Technically part of the Palestinian Authority, it has been governed since 2007 by the militant group Hamas. Hamas, which rejects the existence of Israel, and the Palestinian Authority, recently agreed to form a unity government with Palestinian political faction, Fatah. In June three Israeli teenagers, one with American citizenship, were kidnapped in the West Bank and killed. Within days, Israel arrested more than 300 Palestinians, many of them members of Hamas. Hamas warned Israel it had ''opened up the gates of hell'' with its actions. A Palestinian teenager was kidnapped and burned to death in apparent retaliation. The Egyptian-sponsored ceasefire briefly raised hopes that the week long attacks between Israel and Hamas would come to an end, but Hamas balked at the terms and fired 47 rockets at Israel. The Israeli government then ordered its military campaign to resume. According to the UN: 192 killed in Gaza, 77% civilian, 1,100+ rockets fired at Israel, 1 Israeli civilian killed, since Offensive began on July 8.
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July 13, 2014 - Gaza City, Gaza Strip - A relative of Palestinian members of Tayseer Al-Batsh's family, who were killed in an Israeli air strike, mourns during their funeral. The Israeli air strike on the family home of Al-Batsh, Gaza's police chief, killed 18 people on Saturday, Gaza's health ministry said, and Hamas fired the largest salvo of rockets yet on Tel Aviv since the start of the Jewish state's offensive in the Palestinian enclave.
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July 13, 2014 - Gaza City, Gaza Strip - Blood of Tayseer Al-Batsh's family who were killed in an Israeli air raid, are seen at a hospital morgue. The Israeli air strike on the family home of Al-Batsh, Gaza's police chief, killed 18 people on Saturday, Gaza's health ministry said, and Hamas fired the largest salvo of rockets yet on Tel Aviv since the start of the Jewish state's offensive in the Palestinian enclave. The strike on the home of Al-Batsh in Gaza City was the deadliest bombing since Israel launched its offensive on Tuesday to end Palestinian rocket fire into its territory.
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July 12, 2014 - Gaza City, Gaza Strip - A rocket is launched from the Gaza Strip into Israel by militants of Ezz Al-Din Al Qassam militia, the military wing of Hamas movement. Intense Israeli airstrikes continued overnight throughout the Gaza Strip.
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July 12, 2014 - Gaza City, Gaza Strip - Palestinians mourn their relatives in the morgue of the Shifa hospital. Over a dozen Palestinians were killed in an Israeli strike on a house, hospital officials said. More than 150 Palestinians have been killed in five days of bombardment.
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July 12, 2014 - Gaza City, Gaza Strip - A Palestinian inspects the Farouq Mosque that was destroyed following an air strike in Nuseirat refugee camp.
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Jul 10, 2014 - Gaza City, Gaza Strip - Palestinians inspect a house which police said was damaged in an Israeli air strike. The Israeli air force overnight hit more than 300 Hamas targets in the Gaza Strip in response to rocket fire, an army spokesman said.
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July 13, 2014 - Gaza City, Gaza Strip, Palestinian Territory - Palestinians travel to a shelter at a UN school after evacuating their homes near the border.
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July 8, 2014 - Nir Am, Israel - Israelis watch as smoke rises over the northern Gaza Strip after an attack of Israeli airplanes.
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July 13, 2014 - Sderot, Israel - An Israeli man holds the remains of a Quassam rocket that was recently fired from the northern Gaza Strip.
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July 13, 2014 - Sderot, Israel - Israelis stand on a hilltop as they are are watching activity in the northern Gaza strip.
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Jul 7, 2014 - Gaza City, Gaza Strip - Relatives of Palestinian militant Marwan Sleem mourn during his funeral. Israeli airstrikes left 9 death and 12 injured.
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July 13, 2014 - Beit Lahia, Gaza Strip - Palestinians evacuate the northern Gaza Strip after the Israeli military announced they will heavily bomb the area as a retaliation of the numerous rockets fired from the strip for the past days.
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July 14, 2014 - Nablus, West Bank - Palestinians hold national flags and pictures of children who were killed in the Israeli attack on the Gaza Strip during a march against the war in the Gaza Strip on the Hawara checkpoint.
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July 15, 2014 - Rafah, Gaza Strip - A Palestinian inspects the building of a charitable association that was devastated by Israeli warplanes. Israel says it has resumed bombardment of Gaza, after earlier accepting a truce proposal, as Hamas militants continued firing rockets.
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July 15, 2014 - Gaza City, Gaza Strip - Four-year-old Palestinian girl SHAYMA AL-MASRI, who hospital officials said was wounded in an Israeli air strike that killed her mother and two of her siblings, lies on a bed next to her doll as she receives treatment at a hospital.
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July 14, 2014 - Gaza City, Gaza Strip - Palestinians, who fled their family homes in the northern border town of Beit Lahiya, stay at a United Nations-run school.
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July 14, 2014 - Gaza City, Gaza Strip - A Palestinian looks at debris and remains of cars after what police said was an Israeli air strike that destroyed a nearby house.
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July 15, 2014 - Rafah, Gaza Strip - Members of the Sheik el Eed family comfort each other during the funeral of three of their relatives. Sara (4), her father Omar (28) and uncle Jihad Ahmed (37) were killed during an overnight drone strike of Israeli Forces.
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July 14, 2014 - Nablus, West Bank - Palestinians hold national flags and pictures of children who were killed in the Israeli attack on the Gaza Strip during a march against the war on the Hawara checkpoint.
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July 15, 2014 - Gaza City, Gaza Strip - A Palestinian man sits on a destroyed car following an Israeli airstrike.
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July 15, 2014 - Rafah, Gaza Strip - Palestinian boys inspect the rubble of a prison destroyed by an Israeli air strike. Israel says it has resumed bombardment of Gaza, after earlier accepting a truce proposal, as Hamas militants continued firing rockets.
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