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Palestinian students play in a classroom at a United Nations school in Gaza City on September 14, 2014 on the first day of the new school year. (AFP PHOTO / MOHAMMED ABED)
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Batsh family graveyard in Gaza City. (Asharq Al-Awsat)
Gaza cemeteries struggle to cope as Israeli air strikes continue
Gaza, Asharq Al-Awsat—Victims’ families in Gaza are being forced to establish new graveyards to bury their dead, as cemeteries struggle to find enough burial plots after sixteen days of Israeli air strikes. Eighteen members of the Batsh family were killed on Sunday,...Caption:
A medic helps a Palestinian in the Shejaia neighbourhood of Gaza City, which was heavily shelled by Israel during fighting, on July 20, 2014. (Reuters/Finbarr O’Reilly)
Displaced Palestinians speak of ordeal
Gaza, Asharq Al-Awsat—Palestinians who fled the Israeli bombardment of the Shejaia district of Gaza City on Sunday have spoken to Asharq Al-Awsat of their ordeal as they fled to safety. At least 87 Gazans were killed on Sunday—60 of them in the district of Shejaia...Caption:
Palestinians walk around the ruins of the Al-Tawfeeq Mosque after it was hit by an overnight Israeli missile strike in the Nuseirat refugee camp, central Gaza Strip, on Saturday, July 12, 2014. (AP Photo/Hatem Moussa)
Gaza death toll reaches 115 as Israel to counter rockets “with all power”
Gaza and Jerusalem, Reuters—Israel pounded Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip on Saturday for a fifth day, killing nine people including two disabled women according to medics, and showed no sign of pausing despite international pressure to negotiate a ceasefire....Caption:
Israeli firefighters extinguish a fire that broke out after a rocket hit a petrol station in the southern Israeli city of Ashdod July 11, 2014. (Reuters/Avi Roccah)