Gaza-Israel War
The Gaza War, also known in Israel as Operation Cast Lead, was an intense three-week conflict in late 2008 and early 2009 involving massive airstrikes and a ground invasion by Israeli military forces into the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip.
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A relative wails on learning her family member was one of the bodies dug out from rubble in Beit Lahiya, in the northern Gaza strip, Monday, Jan. 19, 2009. The bodies of four Hamas fighters from the same family - Bassem, Nashad, Sharif, and Rizek Suboh - were pulled from the rubble in the heavily hit area of Beit Lahiya and later buried in the town cemetery, as Gazans got a first closeup look at the large-scale destruction across their crowded territory. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)
A Palestinian boy on horseback herds a flock of sheep past destroyed and flattened buildings in the heavily hit eastern area of Jebaliya, in the northern Gaza strip, Sunday, Jan. 18, 2009. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)
In this photo taken Monday, Jan. 19, 2009, Fatma Zidane El-Banneh, 8, and her mother Azza are pictured after returning from hospital to the Beit Lahiya Elementary Co-educational school, where Azhar said Fatma was burned by white phosphorus, which could not be independently verified, in Beit Lahiya, in the northern Gaza strip. A U.N. official said two Palestinian boys were killed after a shelling attack struck the U.N. school packed with refugees fleeing the fighting. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)
Palestinians salvage belongings and make tea in what is left of their kitchen, in the heavily hit town of Jebaliya in the northern Gaza strip, Monday, Jan. 19, 2009. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)
A relative wails, while another tries to cover her mouth with their hands, on learning her family member was one of the bodies dug out from rubble in Beit Lahiya, in the northern Gaza strip, Monday, Jan. 19, 2009. The bodies of four Hamas fighters from the same family - Bassem, Nashad, Sharif, and Rizek Suboh - were pulled from the rubble in the heavily hit area of Beit Lahiya and later buried in the town cemetery, as Gazans got a first closeup look at the large-scale destruction across their crowded territory. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)
** EDS NOTE: NUDITY ** A young Palestinian boy walks out of his father's damaged shop and urinates on a destroyed car in the heavily hit area of Jebaliya in the northern Gaza strip, Tuesday, Jan. 20, 2009. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)
A Hamas militant and his two children participate in a rally in Palestine Square in Gaza City, in the northern Gaza strip, Tuesday, Jan. 20, 2009. U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon inspected the devastation wrought by Israel's onslaught in Gaza on Tuesday, leading a moment of silence at the U.N. headquarters, as the territory's militant Hamas rulers, triumphant at having survived, held victory rallies amid the ruins. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)
A man prays inside his destroyed apartment in the heavily hit eastern area of Jebaliya, in the northern Gaza strip, Monday, Jan. 19, 2009. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)
A Palestinian man, seen reflected in a smashed mirror, observes the destruction in a bedroom of his house, which was occupied by Israeli soldiers during the conflict, in Mughraka, central Gaza strip, Wednesday, Jan. 21, 2009. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)
Palestinians offer traditional Muslim Friday prayers amidst the rubble of a destroyed mosque, where only the minaret still stands, in Beit Lahiya in the Gaza strip, Friday, Jan. 23, 2009. Gaza residents headed for Friday communal prayers and Israeli naval guns were largely silent as grief and shock began to mix with a palpable sense of relief in the coastal strip pounded by weeks of Israeli airstrikes and ground assaults. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)
Bahar Abu al-Hussein, 12, is comforted by his uncle Ali Abu al-Hussein, after learning that his father Hamir Attiya had been killed by tank fire, according to a police officer, outside the an-Najar hospital in Rafah, southern Gaza strip, Saturday, Jan. 17, 2009. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)
Rouba Keshta, 2, cries a short while after an air strike, in the backyard of an olive-oil pressing shop where she and her family were taking refuge, in Rafah, southern Gaza strip, Saturday, Jan. 17, 2009. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)
A man walks down a destroyed street in the Salahaddin street area of Rafah, southern Gaza strip, Saturday, Jan. 17, 2009. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)