An Israeli boy stands on the staircase of a bomb shelter in Ashkelon
Israel's military offensive aims to bring an end to militant rocket fire coming from Gaza. Oxfam is calling for an immediate ceasefire from both sides.
Photo: REUTERS/Amir Cohen (Israel), courtesy of alertnet.org
An Israeli woman and her two children take cover during a rocket attack near Kfar Aza, just outside the northern Gaza Strip on 7 January, 2009
Photo: REUTERS/Baz Ratner (ISRAEL), courtesy of alertnet.org
Residents of Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip inspect houses that have been destroyed in the aftermath of an Israeli airstrike
Photo: REUTERS/Ibraheem Abu Mustafa (GAZA), courtesy of alertnet.org
A Palestinian woman sits on the rubble of her destroyed house after an Israeli air strike in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip on 30 December, 2008
Photo: REUTERS/Ibraheem Abu Mustafa (GAZA), courtesy of alertnet.org
An Israeli military jeep drives in front of the sun setting on the Israel-Gaza border
Israeli troops and tanks split the Gaza Strip and ringed its main city on Sunday 4 January in an offensive against Hamas militants, but civilians trapped in the Palestinian enclave suffered more bloodshed.
Photo: REUTERS/Yannis Behrakis (ISRAEL), courtesy of alertnet.org
A Palestinian boy looks up in a damaged house after an Israeli air strike in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip December 30, 2008
Photo: REUTERS/Ibraheem Abu Mustafa (GAZA), courtesy of alertnet.org
A Palestinian girl, who fled with her family from their house, looks out the window at a United Nations aid centre in a school in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip
Photo: REUTERS/Ibraheem Abu Mustafa (GAZA), courtesy of alertnet.org
Palestinians survey a kindergarten destroyed after an Israeli air strike in Gaza on 8 January, 2009
Photo: REUTERS/Mohammed Salem (GAZA), courtesy of alertnet.org
A Palestinian boy looks at the al-Noor mosque destroyed after an Israeli air strike in Gaza on 8 January, 2009
Photo: REUTERS/Mohammed Salem (GAZA), courtesy of alertnet.org
A Palestinian man reacts at the hospital after two of his relatives were killed by an Israeli shell in Gaza, 4 January 2009
Photo: REUTERS/Suhaib Salem (GAZA), courtesy of alertnet.org
A young boy carries his belongings after an Israeli airstrike in Rafah on 30 December, 2008
Photo: REUTERS/Ibraheem Abu Mustafa (GAZA), courtesy of alertnet.org
A Palestinian boy watches the burial of four-year-old Lama Hamdan and her sister Haya at Beit Hanoun cemetery in the northern Gaza Strip on 30 December, 2008
Photo: REUTERS/Mohammed Salem (GAZA), courtesy of alertnet.org
