Sunday 25 January 2009

Scenes from Gaza

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Palestinian Rawan Abu Taber, 4, wounded during the Israeli military ...

Palestinian Rawan Abu Taber, 4, wounded during the Israeli military ...

"Palestinian Rawan Abu Taber, 4, wounded during the Israeli military operations, screams in pain as doctors change bandages to her severe burns, at the Shifa hospital in Gaza City, Wednesday Jan. 21, 2009. Doctors had to amputate her thumb because it kept on burning. A vast majority of over 4,000 Palestinians wounded in Israel's operations in the Gaza Strip are treated at Shifa, Gaza's largest hospital."
(AP)

A Palestinian girl cries as she sits next to a puddle on a street ...

"A Palestinian girl cries as she sits next to a puddle on a street in Gaza city, January 23, 2009."(Reuters)


A Palestinian man and his son sit on the wreckage of their destroyed ...


"A Palestinian man and his son sit on the wreckage of their destroyed home in Jabalya refugee camp in Gaza January 23, 2009."
(REUTERS)


Palestinian sisters Dunia, 10, and Dana, 5, discover their school ...


"Palestinian sisters Dunia, 10, and Dana, 5, discover their school books admid the rubble of their destroyed home in the southern part of Gaza City. Some 200,000 Gaza children have returned to school for the first time since Israel's offensive, many having lost family members, their home and their sense of security."
(AFP)


Palestinian boy Mohammed Kutkut, 14, right, covers his face ...


"Palestinian boy Mohammed Kutkut, 14, right, covers his face as he sits next to the name sign of his killed friend Ahed Qaddas in the Fakhoura boys school in Jebaliya, northern Gaza strip, Saturday, Jan. 24, 2009. Three friends of his class where killed when the Israeli army shelled Jebaliya in the past weeks. Tens of thousands of children have flocked back to schools throughout the Gaza Strip, days after Israel ended its fierce military operation against the territory's rulers."
(AP Photo)


A Palestinian boy carries rescued cats inside a birdcage, on ...


"A Palestinian boy carries rescued cats inside a birdcage, on a stroller on a street in Gaza City in the Gaza strip, Friday, Jan. 23, 2009."
(AP Photo)


Members of the Palestinian Khadr family gather around a fire ...


"Members of the Palestinian Khadr family gather around a fire next to a tent in the rubble of their house destroyed in the recent Israeli military operation in the devastated area of east Jebaliya, in the northern Gaza Strip, Saturday, Jan. 24, 2009."
(AP Photo)

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