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IMAGE: Family and friends mourn Master Sergeant (reserves) Sergey Shmerkin, 32, who was killed in northern Gaza amid the Israeli army'S ongoing ground operation against Hamas, at his funeral in Kiryat Shmona, northern Israel. Photograph: Evelyn Hockstein/Reuters
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IMAGE: A Palestinian woman mourns while holding a child, near the bodies of Palestinians at a hospital following Israeli strikes, in Khan Younis in southern Gaza. Photograph: Mohammed Salem/Reuters
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IMAGE: Relatives of a family mourn near their bodies at a hospital in Khan Younis. Photograph: Mohammed Salem/Reuters
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IMAGE: Family and friends mourn at the funeral of Israeli soldier Raz Abulafia, who was killed in northern Gaza, at his funeral in Rishpon, Israel. Photograph: Shir Torem/Reuters
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IMAGE: Family and friends mourn Master Sergeant (reserves) Matan Meir, 38, who was killed in northern Gaza, at his funeral in Odem, northern Israel. Photograph: Shir Torem/Reuters
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IMAGE: Israeli first responders check a damaged area from a rocket strike from Gaza, near Tel Aviv. Photograph: Ammar Awad/Reuters
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IMAGE: Members of the military work at the site hit by rockets from Gaza in Ashkelon in southern Israel. Photograph: Amir Cohen/Reuters
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IMAGE: A Palestinian child wounded in an Israeli strike is rushed into Nasser hospital in Khan Younis. Photograph: Ibraheem Abu Mustafa/Reuters
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IMAGE: Soldiers walk under a tree as the sun shines, as seen from southern Israel. Photograph: Alexander Ermochenko/Reuters
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IMAGE: People wearing shrouds protest in solidarity with Gaza and Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails, in Hebron, in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. Photograph: Mussa Qawasma/Reuters
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IMAGE: Israeli Americans and supporters of Israel gather in solidarity with Israel and protest against anti-semitism, during a rally on the National Mall in Washington, DC. Photograph: Leah Millis/Reuters
Photographs curated by Manisha Kotian/Rediff.com
Feature Presentation: Ashish Narsale/Rediff.com