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In Pictures: Gaza survivors take refuge

Nearly 200 people have been killed and 1,500 others injured as the Israeli offensive on Gaza enters its ninth day.

United Nations employees distribute food to Palestinians at a school in Gaza.
By Wissam Nassar
Published On 16 Jul 2014

Gaza Strip, Occupied Palestinian Territories – Israel intensified its bombardment of the Gaza Strip, targeting the houses of senior Hamas leaders, as the death toll reached at least 208 on the ninth day of the offensive.

Israel accepted an Egyptian proposal on Tuesday morning for a ceasefire to end the fighting in Gaza, which began on July 8 and has killed at least 208 Palestinians and injured more than 1,500 others. Hamas, which rules the Gaza Strip, said it was never consulted about the ceasefire and rejected it. Hours later, Israel resumed its bombardment.

Thousands of Gaza residents have since fled their homes in search of safety and shelter in United Nations shelters. Adnan Abu Hassna, spokesman for the UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), said the agency has turned eight of its schools into temporary shelters.

At least 16,000 Palestinians have now sought refuge in United Nation schools, according to UN figures. 

UN relief officials indicated that many women and children have been among the more than 200 killed and more than 1,500 wounded in Israeli airstrikes.
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A Palestinian family breaks its day-long Ramadan fast at a UN school in Gaza City.
Four-year-old Palestinian girl Shayma Al-Masri lies on a bed next to her doll as she receives treatment at a hospital in Gaza City. Hospital officials said she was wounded in an Israeli air strike that killed her mother and two of her siblings. The girl and her father were the only survivors in the family.
Palestinians mourn during the funeral of 18 members of the al-Batsh family, who were killed the previous night in Israeli strikes that hit their house on July 13.
Palestinians inspect a destroyed building following an Israeli military strike on Beit Lahya, in the northern Gaza Strip. 
Israel has intensified its bombing campaign of the Gaza Strip, targeting the houses of senior Hamas leaders as the death toll of its nine-day campaign in the Palestinian enclave hit 208.
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A Palestinian scavenger collects rubbish as he goes back to his work in Gaza City after a proposed Egyptian ceasefire plan, on July 15.
Palestinian children take refuge at a UN school after evacuating their homes near the border at the Jabaliya refugee camp in the Gaza Strip.
Israel resumed its bombardment on Tuesday, hours after agreeing to an Egyptian proposal for a ceasefire on which Hamas, the group that controls Gaza, said it was never consulted.