(01 of20)
Open Image ModalA Palestinian medic carries a wounded girl in the emergency room of Shifa hospital in Gaza City, northern Gaza Strip, early Friday, July 18, 2014. The heavy thud of tank shells, often just seconds apart, echoed across the Gaza Strip early Friday as thousands of Israeli soldiers launched a ground invasion, escalating a 10-day campaign of heavy air bombardments to try to destroy Hamas' rocket-firing abilities and the tunnels militants use to infiltrate Israel. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
(02 of20)
Open Image ModalA wounded girl is treated at the emergency room of the Shifa hospital in Gaza City, northern Gaza Strip, early Friday, July 18, 2014. Israel intensified its 11-day campaign against Gaza's Hamas rulers by launching a ground operation late Thursday after becoming increasingly exasperated with unrelenting rocket fire from Gaza on its cities, especially following Hamas' rejection of an Egyptian cease-fire plan earlier in the week.(AP Photo/Khalil Hamra) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
(03 of20)
Open Image ModalA wounded boy receives treatment at al-Shifa hospital, in Gaza City, on July 18, 2014. Israeli tank fire killed four Palestinians in two separate attacks in Strip, medics said, as Israel launched a ground offensive in an operation to stamp out militant rocket fire. AFP PHOTO/MOHAMMED ABED (Photo credit should read MOHAMMED ABED/AFP/Getty Images) (credit:MOHAMMED ABED via Getty Images)
(04 of20)
Open Image ModalA wounded baby receives treatment at al-Shifa hospital, in Gaza City, on July 18, 2014. Israeli tank fire killed four Palestinians in two separate attacks in Strip, medics said, as Israel launched a ground offensive in an operation to stamp out militant rocket fire. AFP PHOTO/MOHAMMED ABED (Photo credit should read MOHAMMED ABED/AFP/Getty Images) (credit:MOHAMMED ABED via Getty Images)
(05 of20)
Open Image ModalA wounded boy from the Bakr family, receives treatment at al-Shifa hospital, in Gaza City, on July 16, 2014. Four children were killed and several injured at a beach in Gaza City medics said, in Israeli shelling witnessed by AFP journalists. The strikes appeared to be the result of shelling by the Israeli navy against an area with small shacks used by fishermen. The deaths raised the overall toll in nine days of violence in Gaza to 213. AFP PHOTO/MOHAMMED ABED (Photo credit should read MOHAMMED ABED/AFP/Getty Images) (credit:MOHAMMED ABED via Getty Images)
(06 of20)
Open Image ModalPalestinian medics treat a wounded girl at the emergency room of the Shifa hospital in Gaza City, northern Gaza Strip, early Friday, July 18, 2014. The heavy thud of tank shells, often just seconds apart, echoed across the Gaza Strip early Friday as thousands of Israeli soldiers launched a ground invasion, escalating a 10-day campaign of heavy air bombardments to try to destroy Hamas' rocket-firing abilities and the tunnels militants use to infiltrate Israel. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
(07 of20)
Open Image ModalMedics treat a wounded Palestinian at the emergency room of Shifa hospital in Gaza City, northern Gaza Strip, early Friday, July 18, 2014. The heavy thud of tank shells, often just seconds apart, echoed across the Gaza Strip early Friday as thousands of Israeli soldiers launched a ground invasion, escalating a 10-day campaign of heavy air bombardments to try to destroy Hamas' rocket-firing abilities and the tunnels militants use to infiltrate Israel. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
(08 of20)
Open Image ModalSmoke rises after an Israeli missile strike in Gaza City, Friday, July 18, 2014. Israel intensified its 11-day campaign against Hamas by sending in tanks and troops late Thursday after becoming increasingly exasperated with unrelenting rocket fire from Gaza on its cities, especially following Hamas' rejection of an Egyptian cease-fire plan earlier in the week.(AP Photo/Hatem Moussa) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
(09 of20)
Open Image ModalA Palestinian man stands in the rubble of a house after it was hit by an Israeli missile strike in Gaza City, Friday, July 18, 2014. Israel intensified its 11-day campaign against Hamas by sending in tanks and troops late Thursday after becoming increasingly exasperated with unrelenting rocket fire from Gaza on its cities, especially following Hamas' rejection of an Egyptian cease-fire plan earlier in the week.(AP Photo/Hatem Moussa) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
(10 of20)
Open Image ModalSmoke rises after an Israeli missile strike in Gaza City, Friday, July 18, 2014. Israel intensified its 11-day campaign against Hamas by sending in tanks and troops late Thursday after becoming increasingly exasperated with unrelenting rocket fire from Gaza on its cities, especially following Hamas' rejection of an Egyptian cease-fire plan earlier in the week.(AP Photo/Hatem Moussa) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
(11 of20)
Open Image ModalSmoke rises after an Israeli missile strike in Gaza City, northern Gaza Strip, Friday, July 18, 2014. Israel intensified its 11-day campaign against Hamas by sending in tanks and troops late Thursday after becoming increasingly exasperated with unrelenting rocket fire from Gaza on its cities, especially following Hamas' rejection of an Egyptian cease-fire plan earlier in the week.(AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
(12 of20)
Open Image ModalResidents run to inspect the damage after a building was hit by an Israeli missile strike in Gaza City, in northern Gaza strip, Friday, July 18, 2014. The heavy thud of tank shells, often just seconds apart, echoed across the Gaza Strip early Friday as thousands of Israeli soldiers launched a ground invasion, escalating a 10-day campaign of heavy air bombardments to try to destroy Hamas' rocket-firing abilities and the tunnels militants use to infiltrate Israel. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
(13 of20)
Open Image ModalA Palestinian woman inspects damages of the el-Yazje family apartment building, which was destroyed following an overnight Israeli missile strike in Gaza City, Thursday, July 17, 2014. The Israeli military says it has struck 37 targets in Gaza ahead of a five-hour humanitarian cease-fire meant to allow civilians to stock up after 10 days of fighting. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
(14 of20)
Open Image ModalPalestinians flock to a market to buy their needs after a five-hours U.N. humanitarian cease-fire was announced in Gaza City on Thursday, July 17, 2014. Palestinian militants fired a rocket at Israel Thursday just as a five-hour U.N. humanitarian cease-fire expired, the Israeli military said. Gaza residents had crowded banks, vegetable markets and shops as they took advantage of the first respite from 10 days of fierce fighting. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
(15 of20)
Open Image ModalA missile is launched by an 'Iron Dome' battery, a missile defence system designed to intercept and destroy incoming short-range rockets and artillery shells, in the southern Israeli city of Ashdod on July 18, 2014. Israeli troops backed by tanks and warplanes pushed deeper into Gaza in an operation to halt rocket fire and destroy tunnels that Hamas said is doomed to fail. AFP PHOTO/DAVID BUIMOVITCH (Photo credit should read DAVID BUIMOVITCH/AFP/Getty Images) (credit:DAVID BUIMOVITCH via Getty Images)
(16 of20)
Open Image ModalPalestinians leave Gaza City's Al-Shejaea neighborhood to a safer location after Israel's army started its ground offensive on the Gaza Strip on July 18, 2014. Israeli forces backed by tanks and warplanes today pushed into the edges of Gaza in a major operation to destroy Hamas tunnels that the Palestinian Islamist group warned was doomed to fail. AFP PHOTO/MOHAMMED ABED (Photo credit should read MOHAMMED ABED/AFP/Getty Images) (credit:MOHAMMED ABED via Getty Images)
(17 of20)
Open Image ModalPalestinians help an injured colleague to leave a building hit by an Israeli air strike on Gaza City on July 18, 2014. Israeli troops backed by tanks and warplanes pushed deeper into Gaza overnight in an operation to halt rocket fire and destroy tunnels that Hamas said is doomed to fail. The death toll among Palestinians soared to 260 as the large-scale Israeli offensive entered its 11th day, with the army bombarding Gaza by air and sea as well as from tanks massed along the border. AFP PHOTO / THOMAS COEX (Photo credit should read THOMAS COEX/AFP/Getty Images) (credit:THOMAS COEX via Getty Images)
(18 of20)
Open Image ModalAn Israeli missile hits Palestinian buildings in Gaza City on July 17, 2014. Israel launched a ground operation in Gaza late Thursday on the 10th day of an offensive to stamp out rocket attacks from the Palestinian enclave, the army said. At least 240 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli air strikes since July 8, many of them children, medics in Gaza said, with a NGO based in the coastal enclave saying 80 percent of the deaths are civilians. AFP PHOTO / THOMAS COEX (Photo credit should read THOMAS COEX/AFP/Getty Images) (credit:THOMAS COEX via Getty Images)
(19 of20)
Open Image ModalA relative mourns during the funeral of Rani Abu Tawila, a Palestinian who was killed in an Israeli attack, on July 18, 2014 in Gaza city. Israel warned it could broaden a Gaza ground assault aimed at smashing Hamas's network of cross-border tunnels, as it stepped up attacks that have killed more than 260 Palestinians. AFP PHOTO / MAHMUD HAMS (Photo credit should read MAHMUD HAMS/AFP/Getty Images) (credit:MAHMUD HAMS via Getty Images)
(20 of20)
Open Image ModalA displaced Palestinian girl carries a fresh water jerrycan at a school used as a shelter in Gaza City on July 18, 2014. Israeli forces backed by tanks and warplanes today pushed into the edges of Gaza in a major operation to destroy Hamas tunnels that the Palestinian Islamist group warned was doomed to fail. AFP PHOTO/MOHAMMED ABED (Photo credit should read MOHAMMED ABED/AFP/Getty Images) (credit:MOHAMMED ABED via Getty Images)