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In Pictures: Destruction and devastation in Gaza

Medics pulled nearly 68 bodies from the rubble early on Monday, according to Gaza’s emergency services.

There was no let-up in the Israeli offensive, with another 31 Palestinians killed in a series of strikes on Monday even as the US and the UN demanded an (***)immediate ceasefire(***).

By Al Jazeera

Published On 22 Jul 2014

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Many Palestinian families fled the Shujayea neighbourhood in the east of Gaza City after a sleepless night that witnessed the heaviest bombardment of the 13-day Israeli assault on Gaza. Heavy tank and artillery shelling left at least 72 people dead, most of them women and children, and over 200 injured, according to Palestinian health ministry sources.

At least 508 Palestinians have been killed since the start of Israel’s “Operation Protective Edge” on July 8, of which, the UN says, the majority were civilians. At least 20 Israelis, mostly soldiers, have also been killed.

Al Jazeera’s Nicole Johnston, reporting from Gaza City, said that shelling continued across different areas of the Gaza Strip.

“The people from those neighbourhoods [in the Gaza’s east] say that their homes, their district has been destroyed and they’re seeking shelter inside Gaza City,” said our correspondent.

She said that the Gaza health ministry confirmed that a family home was hit by tank shelling and 17 people were killed, including women and children, in Khan Younis, while a four-storey building was hit in Rafah, killing up to nine people, including four children and an eight-month-old baby.


Palestinians inspect the debris of a destroyed house in Al Sheikh Redwan area in central Gaza City on July 21.
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Tens of thousands of Palestinians living in the area which is in close proximity, left their houses in the past days to seek shelter from an Israeli ground invasion.
Israel was pressing its ground operation into southern Gaza, after infantry soldiers entered the coastal enclave three days ago in order to end rocket fire and destroy tunnels leading into Israel, the Israeli army said.
At least 550 Palestinians have been killed since the conflict escalated two weeks ago, most of them civilians.
Continuing bombardment of civilian homes as well as the Israeli shelling of a hospital, add to the list of possible war crimes that demand an urgent independent international investigation, Amnesty International said.
At least 75 Palestinians and 13 Israeli soldiers were killed overnight in Gaza(***)s Shujayea neighbourhood.
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Ban Ki-moon, the UN secretary-general, condemned the killing of civilians by Israeli shelling on Sunday calling it an (***)atrocious action(***).