Recent violence in Gaza
February 27 2008: More than 100 people have been killed in the past few days in escalating violence between Israeli troops and Palestinian militants. West Bank leaders threatened to suspend peace talks in protest against the Israeli attacks, which came as Gaza militants bombarded southern Israel with rockets and mortars
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February 27 2008: Israeli air strikes have targeted militants in Kahn Younis. Palestinians carry the body of the Hamas fighter Omar Abu Akar during his funeral in the southern Gaza Strip
Photograph: Getty
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February 28 2008: The father of six-month-old Mohammed Bourai shows the crib belonging to his son, who was killed in the Hamas government's interior ministry building when an Israeli helicopter struck it with missiles
Photograph: Mohammed Abed/AFP
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February 28 2008: A Palestinian relative of six-month-old Mohammed Bourai stands among the wreckage at his family's home
Photograph: Abid Katib/Getty
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February 28 2008: An Israeli woman in a shelter in Sderot screams as a 'red alert' is sounded in response to the launching of a rocket from the Gaza Strip into southern Israel
Photograph: Jim Hollander/EPA
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February 29 2008: Palestinians stand on the rubble of a building used by the Islamic group Hamas after it is hit by an Israeli missile
Photograph: Hatem Moussa/AP
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February 29 2008: Injured Palestinians are helped after an Israeli missile strike
Photograph: Hatem Moussa/AP
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February 29 2008: A Palestinian policeman walks in the rubble of the Palestinian Workers Union building, destroyed in an Israeli air strike
Photograph: Adel Hana/AP
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March 1 2008: Mourners pray at a mosque during the funeral of eight militants in Jebaliya, northern Gaze Strip
Photograph: Ashraf Amra/AP
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February 29 2008: Thousands of Palestinians from different political movements unite to protest against Israeli military operations. Boys play dead during a mock funeral of children organised by protesters in Gaza City
Photograph: Mahmud Hams/AFP
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March 1 2008: A Palestinian boy, holding a doll to commemorate a baby killed during the Israeli bombardment of Gaza, participates in a sit-in front of Khalid Bin Walid mosque in the Ein el-Hilweh Palestinian refugee camp near the southern city of Sidon, Lebanon
Photograph: EPA
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March 1 2008: Palestinian students of Hebron University from both Fatah and Hamas movements protest in front of their campus in the West Bank city of Hebron against the Israeli assault on the Gaza Strip
Photograph: Hazem Bader/AFP
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March 2 2008: A Palestinian child holds a bloodied doll representing dead Palestinian children, during a protest in the Ein al-Hilweh Palestinian refugee camp in the southern Lebanese city of Sidon
Photograph: Mahmoud Zayat/AFP
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March 3 2008: A security wall is decorated with soft toys in front of the United Nations house, during a protest with schoolchildren in Beirut against the violence in Gaza
Photograph: Wael Hamzeh/EPA
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March 2 2008: A Palestinian medic shows the blood of Mahmoud Atea, 17, at the hospital as he prepares him for his funeral
Photograph: Abid Katib/Getty
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March 2 2008: Palestinian fighters take up position during an Israeli operation east of Jabalia refugee camp, northern Gaza Strip
Photograph: Abid Katib/Getty
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March 3 2008: Israeli policemen in plainclothes arrest Palestinian youths during a violent protest in East Jerusalem. Israel has vowed to keep hitting Gaza even as troops have pulled out of the Hamas-run territory
Photograph: Menahem Kahana/AP
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March 3 2008: Palestinians inspect their destroyed houses following the deadly Israeli assault in Jabaliya refugee camp
Photograph: Mohammed Abed/AFP
