Deadliest Day in Gaza War

Jul 20, 2014

Deadliest Day in Gaza War

Emma Patti Harris 0 Comment World Gaza, Israel, Palestine

More than 60 Palestinians and 13 Israeli soldiers were killed as Israel shelled a Gaza neighborhood and battled militants Sunday in the bloodiest fighting in a near two-week-old offensive. Read the full story here.

: Palestinians soldiers lower the Palestinian flags to half mast at the Muqataa Compound, on July 20, 2014, in the West Bank city of Ramallah, to show respect for all the people killed in the Gaza Strip during the Israeli military offensive “Operation Dove”. Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas has called for three days of mourning. (Abbas Momani/AFP/Getty Images)

: The casket carrying Israeli Sergeant Adar Barsano is carried to a burial plot in a cemetery during his funeral on July 20, 2014 in Nahariya, Israel. Sergeant Barsano was killed along with another IDF soldier on the twelfth day of operation “Protective Edge,” when Hamas militants infiltrated Israel from a tunnel dug from Gaza and engaged Israeli soldiers. (Andrew Burton/Getty Images)

: Israeli soldiers weep at the grave of Israeli Sergeant Adar Barsano during his funeral on July 20, 2014 in Nahariya, Israel. Sergeant Barsano was killed along with another IDF soldier on the twelfth day of operation “Protective Edge,” when Hamas militants infiltrated Israel from a tunnel dug from Gaza and engaged Israeli soldiers. (Andrew Burton/Getty Images)

: A relative mourns among comrades of Sergeant Banaya Rubel, an Israeli soldier killed during Israeli military offensive on the Gaza Strip, during his funeral in the city of Holon, near Tel Aviv on July 20, 2014. At least 97 Palestinians and 13 Israeli soldiers were killed on July 20, 2014 as Israel ramped up a major military offensive in the bloodiest single day in Gaza in five years. (David Buimovitch/AFP/Getty Images)

: Members of an honor guard fire during the funeral of Sergeant Banaya Rubel, an Israeli soldier killed during Israeli military offensive on the Gaza Strip, in the city of Holon, near Tel Aviv on July 20, 2014. At least 97 Palestinians and 13 Israeli soldiers were killed on July 20, 2014 as Israel ramped up a major military offensive in the bloodiest single day in Gaza in five years. (David Buimovitch/AFP/Getty Images)

: Injured Palestinians arrive at al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City on July 20, 2014. Israel’s army said it was expanding its ground offensive against the Gaza Strip, as the bloodiest conflict since 2009 entered its 13th day with a death toll of over 360. (Thomas Coex/AFP/Getty Images)

: Palestinians flee their homes in Gaza’s eastern Shejaiya district on July 20, 2014, after heavy Israeli shelling that left casualties lying in the streets, an AFP correspondent reported. Ambulances were unable to reach much of the area along the border because of heavy fire, and emergency services told AFP there were reports of dead and wounded trapped by the bombardment. (Mohammed Abed/AFP/Getty Images)

: Palestinian medics search for survivors amidst the rubble in Gaza’s eastern Shejaiya district on July 20, 2014. At least 40 people were killed and nearly 400 wounded in Israeli shelling of Gaza’s northeastern Shejaiya district overnight, medics said. (Hams Mahmud/AFP/Getty Images)

: A destroyed Civil Defence ambulance is seen on a street following an Israeli military offensive on the Shejaiya neighborhood between Gaza City and the Israeli border, which has left more than 50 people dead in a blistering bombardment which began overnight, medics said on July 20, 2014. The death toll in Gaza passed 400 as Israel pressed its biggest offensive in the enclave in five years, Palestinian health officials said. “410 people have been killed since the war started and more than 3,020 people have been injured, most of them civilians,” deputy health minister Yussef Abu Rish told reporters at al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City. (Mohammed Abed/AFP/Getty Images)

: A Civil defence worker shouts during an Israeli military offensive on the Shejaiya neighborhood between Gaza City and the Israeli border, which has left more than 50 people dead in a blistering bombardment which began overnight, medics said on July 20, 2014. The death toll in Gaza passed 400 as Israel pressed its biggest offensive in the enclave in five years, Palestinian health officials said. “410 people have been killed since the war started and more than 3,020 people have been injured, most of them civilians,” deputy health minister Yussef Abu Rish told reporters at al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City. (Mohammed Abed/AFP/Getty Images)

: The sister of Medic Fuad Jabed, who was killed while on duty in Gaza’s eastern Shejaiya district, mourns during his funeral in Gaza City on July 20, 2014. At least 40 people were killed and nearly 400 wounded in Israeli shelling of Gaza’s northeastern Shejaiya district overnight, medics said. (Mohammed Abed/AFP/Getty Images)

: Palestinians flee from Gaza’s eastern Shejaiya district on July 20, 2014. At least 40 people were killed and nearly 400 wounded in Israeli shelling of Gaza’s northeastern Shejaiya district overnight, medics said. (Thomas Coex/AFP/Getty Images)

: Smoke and dust rises as Palestinians flee an Israeli military attack on the Shejaiya neighborhood between Gaza City and the Israeli border, which has left more than 50 people dead in a blistering bombardment which began overnight, medics said on July 20, 2014. The death toll in Gaza passed 400 as Israel pressed its biggest offensive in the enclave in five years, Palestinian health officials said. “410 people have been killed since the war started and more than 3,020 people have been injured, most of them civilians,” deputy health minister Yussef Abu Rish told reporters at Shifa hospital in Gaza City. (Hams Mahmud/AFP/Getty Images)

: Relatives of Palestinians killed during the overnight shelling of the eastern Gaza district of Shejaiya by the Israeli army react at the view of a body outside the morgue of the al-Shifa hospital on July 20, 2014 in Gaza City. At least 87 Gazan Palestinians and 13 soldiers were killed today as Israel ramped up a major military offensive in the bloodiest single day in the enclave in five years. (Marco Longari/AFP/Getty Images)

: Ori (L) and Shirai, the children of Major Amotz Greenberg, a 45-year-old Israeli reserve soldier killed fighting a group of Palestinian militants who infiltrated Israel through a tunnel from the centre of the Gaza Strip, grieve during the funeral of their father in the central town of Hod Hasharon, near Tel Aviv, on July 20, 2014. At least 97 Palestinians and 13 Israeli soldiers were killed on July 20 as Israel ramped up a major military offensive in the bloodiest single day in Gaza in five years. (Gil Cohen-Magengil/AFP/Getty Images)

: Israeli soldiers mourn during the funeral of their comrade Bnaya Rubel in Holon, near Tel Aviv July 20, 2014. Eighteen Israeli soldiers, including Rubel, and two Israeli civilians have been killed since a near two-week-old offensive was launched in response, Israel says, to mounting cross-border rocket attacks by Hamas militants. Gaza’s Health Ministry officials said at least 405 Palestinians, many of them civilians, have been killed and about 2,600 wounded since Israeli air and naval bombardments began on July 8, followed by a ground push on Thursday. (Nir Elias/Reuters)

: Sagit Greenberg, the wife (C, wearing cap) of Israeli soldier Amotz Greenberg, mourns during his funeral in the central town of Hod Hasharon July 20, 2014. Eighteen Israeli soldiers, including Greenberg, and two Israeli civilians have been killed since a near two-week-old offensive was launched in response, Israel says, to mounting cross-border rocket attacks by Hamas militants. Gaza’s Health Ministry officials said at least 405 Palestinians, many of them civilians, have been killed and about 2,600 wounded since Israeli air and naval bombardments began on July 8, followed by a ground push on Thursday. (Tomer Appelbaum/Reuters)

: Palestinians react after the death of their relatives, whom medics said were killed during heavy Israeli shelling in the Shejaia neighbourhood, at a hospital in Gaza City July 20, 2014. At least 62 Palestinians were killed on Sunday in Israeli shelling of the Gaza neighbourhood that left bodies strewn in the streets and thousands fleeing for shelter to a hospital packed with wounded, Palestinian witnesses and officials said. The Israeli military said militants from Gaza’s dominant Hamas group responded with anti-tank missiles and heavy weapon fire in some of the bloodiest fighting since Israel launched its Gaza offensive 13 days ago. The Israeli military also said Hamas had fired rockets and built tunnels and command centres in Shejaia and that it had warned locals to evacuate two days earlier. (Ahmed Zakot/Reuters)

: A charred motorcycle stands beside buildings damaged by shrapnel in the Shejaia neighborhood, which was heavily shelled by Israel during fighting, in Gaza City July 20, 2014. At least 50 Palestinians were killed on Sunday by Israeli shelling in a Gaza neighborhood, where bodies were strewn in the street and thousands fled for shelter to a hospital packed with wounded, witnesses and health officials said. Militants kept up their rocket fire on Israel, with no sign of a diplomatic breakthrough toward a ceasefire in sight. (Finbarr O’Reilly/Reuters)

: Palestinians react to destroyed homes in the Shejaia neighborhood, which was heavily shelled by Israel during fighting, in Gaza City July 20, 2014. At least 50 Palestinians were killed on Sunday by Israeli shelling in a Gaza neighborhood, where bodies were strewn in the street and thousands fled for shelter to a hospital packed with wounded, witnesses and health officials said. Militants kept up their rocket fire on Israel, with no sign of a diplomatic breakthrough toward a ceasefire in sight. (Finbarr O’Reilly/Reuters)

: A Palestinian man carries children in the Shejaia neighborhood, which was heavily shelled by Israel during fighting, in Gaza City July 20, 2014. At least 50 Palestinians were killed on Sunday by Israeli shelling in a Gaza neighborhood, where bodies were strewn in the street and thousands fled for shelter to a hospital packed with wounded, witnesses and health officials said. Militants kept up their rocket fire on Israel, with no sign of a diplomatic breakthrough toward a ceasefire in sight. (Finbarr O’Reilly/Reuters)

: A Palestinian man runs with a white flag in the Shejaia neighborhood, which was heavily shelled by Israel during fighting, in Gaza City July 20, 2014. At least 50 Palestinians were killed on Sunday by Israeli shelling in the Gaza neighborhood, where bodies were strewn in the street and thousands fled for shelter to a hospital packed with wounded, witnesses and health officials said. Militants kept up their rocket fire on Israel, with no sign of a diplomatic breakthrough toward a ceasefire in sight. (Finbarr O’Reilly/Reuters)

: A Palestinian man sits outside his house in the Shejaia neighborhood which was heavily shelled by Israel during fighting in Gaza City July 20, 2014. At least 50 Palestinians were killed on Sunday by Israeli shelling in the Gaza neighborhood, where bodies were strewn in the street and thousands fled for shelter to a hospital packed with wounded, witnesses and health officials said. Militants kept up their rocket fire on Israel, with no sign of a diplomatic breakthrough toward a ceasefire in sight. (Mohammed Salem/Reuters)

: Palestinians evacuate a man in the Shejaia neighborhood which was heavily shelled by Israel during fighting in Gaza City July 20, 2014. At least 50 Palestinians were killed on Sunday by Israeli shelling in the Gaza neighborhood, where bodies were strewn in the street and thousands fled for shelter to a hospital packed with wounded, witnesses and health officials said. Militants kept up their rocket fire on Israel, with no sign of a diplomatic breakthrough toward a ceasefire in sight. (Mohammed Salem/Reuters)

: A Palestinian carries his clothes in the Shejaia neighborhood which was heavily shelled by Israel during fighting in Gaza City July 20, 2014. At least 50 Palestinians were killed on Sunday by Israeli shelling in the Gaza neighborhood, where bodies were strewn in the street and thousands fled for shelter to a hospital packed with wounded, witnesses and health officials said. Militants kept up their rocket fire on Israel, with no sign of a diplomatic breakthrough toward a ceasefire in sight. (Mohammed Salem/Reuters)

: Relatives of three Palestinians from Abu Muamar family, who medics said were killed in an Israeli air strike, mourn during their funeral in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip July 20, 2014. At least 50 Palestinians were killed on Sunday by Israeli shelling in a Gaza neighborhood, where bodies were strewn in the street and thousands fled for shelter to a hospital packed with wounded, witnesses and health officials said. Militants kept up their rocket fire on Israel, with no sign of a diplomatic breakthrough toward a ceasefire in sight. (Ibraheem Abu Mustafa/Reuters)

: Relatives of three Palestinians from Abu Muamar family, who medics said were killed in an Israeli air strike, mourn during their funeral in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip July 20, 2014. At least 50 Palestinians were killed on Sunday by Israeli shelling in a Gaza neighborhood, where bodies were strewn in the street and thousands fled for shelter to a hospital packed with wounded, witnesses and health officials said. Militants kept up their rocket fire on Israel, with no sign of a diplomatic breakthrough toward a ceasefire in sight. (Ibraheem Abu Mustafa/Reuters)

: A Palestinian woman reacts after the death of her relatives, who medics said were killed during heavy Israeli shelling at the Shejaia district, at a hospital in Gaza City July 20, 2014. At least 20 Palestinians were killed on Sunday by Israeli shelling in the Gaza neighborhood, witnesses and health officials said, in what appeared to be the heaviest since Israel launched its offensive on the Palestinian territory on July 8 after cross-border rocket strikes by militants intensified. Militants kept up their rocket fire on Israel, with no sign of a diplomatic breakthrough toward a ceasefire in sight. (Suhaib Salem/Reuters)

: Smoke rises during what witnesses said were heavy Israeli shelling at the Shejaia neighborhood in Gaza City July 20, 2014. At least 40 Palestinians were killed on Sunday by Israeli shelling of the Gaza neighborhood of Shejaia, witnesses and health officials said. The mass casualties in the Shejaia district in northeast Gaza were the heaviest since Israel launched its offensive on the Palestinian territory on July 8 after cross-border rocket strikes by militants intensified. Militants kept up their rocket fire on Israel, with no sign of a diplomatic breakthrough toward a ceasefire in sight. (Mohammed Salem/Reuters)

: Israeli soldiers flash the sign of victory on a Merkava tank at an army deployment near Israel’s border with the Gaza Strip on July 20, 2014. Israel says its offensive against the Gaza Strip that began on July 8, and which has killed more than 425 Palestinians, is aimed at destroying tunnels used by militants from Hamas and other groups to infiltrate Israeli lines, and stop rocket attacks. (Jack Guez/AFP/Getty Images)

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