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• Israeli airstrikes began November 14, following months of Palestinian rocket fire into Israel. Monday, the top leader of Hamas dared Israel to launch a ground invasion of Gaza and dismissed diplomatic efforts to broker a cease-fire in the six-day-old conflict, as the Israeli military conducted a new wave of deadly airstrikes which included a second hit on a 15-story building that houses media outlets. What follows is just a small collection of images from the last few days of the conflict. –Paula Nelson ( 34 photos total)

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A Palestinian firefighter tries to

extinguish a fire after an Israeli air

strike, on a floor in a building that

also houses international

media offices in Gaza City,

November 19, 2012. (Suhaib

Salem/Reuters

People stand in front of a high rise

housing media organizations in

Gaza City, Nov. 19, 2012. Israeli military

struck the building for the second time

in two days. The Hamas TV station, Al Aqsa, is located

on the top floor. (Hatem

Moussa/Associated Press)#

A Palestinian man carries a stuffed toy in a street littered with debris after a Israeli air raid on a nearby sporting centre in Gaza City, November 19, 2012. (Marco Longari/AFP/Getty Images

Palestinians evacuate a wounded man after an Israeli air strike on

a building that also houses media offices

in Gaza City, November 19, 2012.

Egypt's prime minister said on Monday that

an agreement brokered by Cairo to

stop the fighting between Israel and the Palestinians in

Gaza could be close. (Mohammed

Salem/Reuters)#

Israelis look up as a siren signals the warning of incoming rockets in the southern city of Ashkelon, November 19, 2012. Israel bombed dozens of targets in Gaza on Monday and said that while it was prepared to step up its offensive by sending in troops, it preferred a diplomatic solution that would end Palestinian rocket fire from the enclave. (Amir Cohen/Reuters)#

Smoke rises following an Israeli attack

on smuggling tunnels on the border

between Egypt and

Rafah, southern

Gaza Strip, Nov. 19,

2012. (Eyad Baba/Associa

ted Press)#

Palestinians jump into a car after collecting bags of flour at a UN distribution center in Shati refugee camp, Gaza City, Nov. 19, 2012. Exchange of fire between Israel and Gaza militants continued for the sixth day on Monday. (Bernat Armangue/Associated Press)#

Palestinians present their identification as they wait to receive food aid at a UN distribution center in Shati refugee camp, Gaza City, Nov. 19, 2012. (Bernat Armangue/Associated Press)#

A Palestinian boy tends to his horse

at the central market in Gaza City, November 19, 2012.

Food prices have started to rise due

to lack of fresh supplies caused by

ongoing unrest with Israel, as scarce

produce is met with more demands by

the residents of the Palestinian coastal

enclave. (Marco Longari/AFP/Getty

Images)#

A member of the Abdel Aal family is rescued after the family house collapsed during an Israeli forces strike in the Tufah neighbourhood, Gaza City, Nov. 18, 2012. (Majed Hamdan/Associated Press)#

An Israeli police sapper collects the remains of a

ordnance fired by Palestinian militants from the Gaza Strip

that landed in the southern Israeli town of Ashkelon, Nov.

19, 2012. Exchange of fire between Israel and Gaza

militants continued for the sixth day on Monday. (Tsafrir

Abayov/Associated Press)#

Israelis gather inside a bomb shelter after

a rocket was launched from the

Gaza Strip, November 18, 2012 in Ashkelon, Israel. (Lior Mizrahi/Getty

Images)#

Israeli workers inspect the damage to

a house that was hit by a rocket fired by

Palestinian militants from the Gaza Strip,

November 18, 2012 in Ashkelon, Israel. (Lior

Mizrahi/Getty Images)#

Israelis gather next to a house that was hit by a rocket fired by

Palestinian militants from the Gaza Strip,

November 18, 2012 in Ashkelon, Israel. (Lior

Mizrahi/Getty Images)#

Israelis inspect the damage to a house that was hit by a rocket fired by Palestinian militants from the Gaza Strip, November 18, 2012 in Ofakim, Israel. Israeli/Gaza attacks have entered the fifth day. (Lior Mizrahi/Getty Images)#

Israelis inspect the damage to a house

that was hit by a rocket fired by

Palestinian militants from the

Gaza Strip, November 18, 2012

in Ofakim, Israel. (Lior Mizrahi/Getty

Images

Israeli emergency personnel inspects the

damage to a car that was hit by a rocket fired by Palestinian militants from the

Gaza Strip, November 18, 2012 in Ofakim. (Lior Mizrahi/Getty

Images)#

Israelis inspect the damage to a house

that was hit by a rocket fired by

Palestinian militants from the Gaza Strip, November 18, 2012

in Ofakim, Israel. (Lior Mizrahi/Getty

Images)#

A Palestinian man looks at the

destruction after Israeli air strikes in

Gaza City, November 19, 2012. Israeli air

strikes on Sunday killed 31 Palestinians

in the bloodiest day so far of its air campaign

on the Gaza Strip, as diplomatic efforts to

broker a truce intensified.

(Mohammed Abed/AFP/Getty

Images)#

Palestinians look at a destroyed house after an Israeli air strike in Gaza City, November 19, 2012. Hostilities between Islamist militants and Israel entered a sixth day as diplomatic efforts were set to intensify to try to stop rocket fire from the Gaza Strip and Israeli air strikes on Gaza. International pressure for a ceasefire seemed certain to mount after the deadliest single incident in the flare-up on Sunday claimed the lives of at least 11 Palestinian civilians, including four children. (Mohammed Salem/Reuters)#

A Palestinian boy walks up the stairs of a house destroyed by

an Israeli strike in Gaza City, Nov. 19,

2012. The Palestinian civilian death toll

mounted as Israeli aircraft struck

densely populated areas in the Gaza

Strip in its campaign to quell militant

rocket fire. (Hatem Moussa/Associated

Press)#

Palestinians gather around a destroyed

house after an Israeli air strike in Khan

Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, November

19, 2012. Israel bombed dozens of suspected guerrilla sites in the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip on

Monday and Palestinian rocket fire

from the enclave dropped off as

international efforts to broker a truce

intensified. (Ibraheem Abu Mustafa/Reuters)

#

A Palestinian man kisses the hand of a dead relative in the

morgue of Shifa Hospital in Gaza City,

Nov. 18, 2012. (Bernat Armangue/Associated

Press)#

A Palestinian woman protects

her child while leaving a building damaged after an

Israeli air raid in Gaza City,

November 19, 2012. (Marco

Longari/AFP/Getty Images)#

A Palestinian woman is helped by a

paramedic out of her building, damaged

during an Israeli air raid on a nearby

sporting centre in Gaza City, November

19, 2012. (Marco Longari/AFP/Getty

Images)#

A Palestinian family waits with their

belongings to leave the area after an Israeli air raid in

Gaza City, November 19, 2012. (Marco

Longari/AFP/Getty Images)#

An Israeli soldier smokes a cigarette

next to a convoy of tanks at an Israeli army deployment

area near the Israel-Gaza Strip

border as they prepare for a

potential ground operation in the

Palestinian coastal enclave, November

19, 2012. (Menahem

Kahana/AFP/Getty Images)#

Israeli soldiers prepare an artillery emplacement overlooking Gaza, November 19, 2012 on Israel's border with the Gaza Strip. The death toll has risen to at least 85 killed in the air strikes, according to hospital officials, on day six since the launch of operation 'Pillar of Defence.' ( Christopher Furlong/Getty Images)#

An Israeli soldier sleeps on top of a tank at an Israeli

army deployment area near the Israel-Gaza Strip border as

they prepare for a potential ground operation in the

Palestinian coastal enclave, November

19, 2012. (Menahem Kahana/AFP/Getty

Images)#

An Israeli soldier, from a tank

squadron, attends a morning briefing at

an Israeli army deployment area

near the Israel-Gaza Strip border,

November 19, 2012. The Israeli cabinet gave its green light for the recruitment

of up to 75,000 reservists amid

signs that Israel was gearing up for a

ground offensive in Gaza. (Jack

Guez/AFP/Getty Images)#

Israeli soldiers check

ammunition at a staging area near

the border with the Gaza Strip, November 19,

2012. Israel bombed dozens

of suspected guerrilla sites in

the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip on Monday and

Palestinian rocket fire from

the enclave dropped off as

international efforts to broker

a truce intensified. (Nir Elias/Reuters)#

An Israeli soldier holds Torah scrolls as he conducts morning

prayers at an Israeli army deployment

area near the Israel-Gaza Strip border in

preparation for a potential ground operation in the

Palestinian coastal enclave, November

19, 2012. (Menahem Kahana/AFP/Getty

Images)#

Escalating Gaza conflictSource : www.reuters .com

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