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Home > Palestine in Focus > Daily Life
In photos: Despair as Gaza conflict enters third week
IMEU, Jan 17, 2009

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As the Israeli offensive against the Gaza Strip enters its third week, Palestinian casualties continue rise and civilian infrastructure has been severely damaged. The IMEU presents the third in a series of photos from on the ground in Gaza.

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A Palestinian man walks through a United Nations school in Beit Lahiya that was attacked by Israel on Saturday, killing four Palestinian civilians who had taken shelter there. (Wissam Nassar, Maan Images)

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A Palestinian child stands inside a United Nations center where his family took refuge from Israel's attacks in the Gaza Strip. (Hatem Omar, Maan Images)

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Palestinians receive food aid at a United Nations center in the southern Gaza Strip city of Rafah. (Hatem Omar, Maan Images)

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Palestinian medics examine the destroyed interior of the Al-Quds hospital in Gaza City, which was bombed by Israel on Thursday. (Wissam Nassar, Maan Images)

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A Palestinian boy stands by as his family loads their belongings onto a truck in order to flee their bombarded neighborhood in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip. (Hatem Omar, Maan Images)

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A Palestinian firefighter rushes to put out a fire caused by an Israeli attack on United Nations headquarters in Gaza City. (Mohamed Al-Zanon, Gaza City)

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Emergency workers attempt to salvage food aid while putting out a fire at the headquarters of the United Nations in Gaza City, which was set ablaze after coming under intense shelling from Israeli forces on Thursday. (Mohamed Al-Zanon, Maan Images)

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Emergency workers in Gaza City attempt to put out a fire at a United Nations facility that was bombed by Israeli on Thursday. (Mohamed Al-Zanon, Maan Images)

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Palestinian look over a crater caused by an Israeli air strike in Gaza City. (Mohamed Al-Zanon, Maan Images)

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Palestinians pass a hollowed high-rise building in central Gaza City. Heavy shelling from the Israeli army has damaged hundreds of buildings in Gaza's largest city. (Wissam Nassar, Maan Images)

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A Palestinian mans walks passed buildings in Gaza City that were destroyed in Israeli air strikes. (Mohamed Al-Zanon, Maan Images)

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A Palestinian boy walks among the ruins of a building demolished by Israeli air and ground attacks in the center of Gaza City, the area's largest city with a population of over 400,000. (Mohamed Al-Zanon, Maan Images).

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A Palestinian man looks at a stretcher stained with blood at a hospital in Gaza City. (Wissam Nassar, Maan Images)

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Palestinians walk atop the rubble in a destroyed part of Gaza City. (Wissam Nassar, Maan Images)

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A Palestinian man kneels down inside his apartment, which was severely damaged from Israeli shelling in central Gaza City. (Wissam Nassar, Maan Images)

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A Palestinian medic carries a young girl who was injured during an Israeli attack in the Gaza Strip. (Maan Images)

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Children play in Barcelona Park south of Gaza City during a three-hour lull in Israel's assault. (Wissam Nassar, Maan Images)


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