In photos: Israel’s military conflict with Gaza enters fifth day
The violence between Israel forces and Palestinian militants entered a fifth day on Friday, with fresh air strikes, artillery fire, and rocket attacks. The Israeli military said in a statement shortly after midnight that air and ground forces were attacking Gaza. Rocket barrages from the Hamas-run enclave swiftly followed.
A Palestinian boy pulls a cart carrying his brother and their belongings as they flee their home during Israeli air and artillery strikes, near the site of a tower building destroyed in earlier strikes in Gaza City.MOHAMMED SALEM/Reuters
Israeli soldiers prepare to fire artillery shells towards the Gaza Strip from their position near the southern Israeli city of Sderot.JACK GUEZ/AFP/Getty Images
Palestinians, who fled their homes due to Israeli air and artillery strikes, are seen at a United Nations-run school where they take refuge, in the northern Gaza Strip.MOHAMMED SALEM/Reuters
Palestinian youths push a garbage bin used as a barricade, during confrontations with Israeli security forces near the Hawara checkpoint south of the occupied West Bank city of Nablus.JAAFAR ASHTIYEH/AFP/Getty Images
A damaged door is pictured in Jerusalem's al-Aqsa mosque compound, the third holiest site of Islam.AHMAD GHARABLI/AFP/Getty Images
Palestinians take shelter provided by the U.N. at a school after fleeing their homes from the overnight Israeli missile strikes in the outskirts of Gaza City.Khalil Hamra/The Associated Press
A Palestinian demonstrator sets up a barricade as tires burn during a protest over tension in Jerusalem and Israel-Gaza escalation, in Hebron.MUSSA ISSA QAWASMA/Reuters
A man inspects the damaged wall of a residential building after being hit by a rocket fired from the Gaza Strip in Ashkelon, Israel.Ariel Schalit/The Associated Press
An Israeli soldier carries an artillery shell in a field next to his artillery unit near the border between Israel and the Gaza Strip.AMIR COHEN/Reuters
Members of Israeli police walk as Palestinians protest over tension in Jerusalem and Israel-Gaza escalation, in Hebron.MUSSA ISSA QAWASMA/Reuters
An Israeli man looks inside a synagogue, after it was set on fire by Arab-Israelis, in the mixed Jewish-Arab city of Lod, Israel.AHMAD GHARABLI/AFP/Getty Images
Palestinian Muslim worshippers listen to slogans shouted by a man holding the Islamist movement Hamas flag following Friday prayers in Jerusalem's al-Aqsa mosque compound, the third holiest site of Islam.AHMAD GHARABLI/AFP/Getty Images
Israeli security forces walk in Jerusalem's al-Aqsa mosque compound.AHMAD GHARABLI/AFP/Getty Images
Israeli women check the damages in a residential building after a rocket attack from the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip, in the central Israeli city of Petah Tikva.GIL COHEN-MAGEN/AFP/Getty Images
Palestinians assess the damage caused by Israeli air strikes, in Beit Hanun in the northern Gaza Strip.MAHMUD HAMS/AFP/Getty Images