Photo Gallery Playing with Fire
Palestinians help extinguish the fire after an Israeli air strike last Wednesday on the car of Hamas' top commander in Gaza City, Ahmed Jabari. The killing set off the most recent escalation between Hamas and the Israelis.
A picture taken from the southern Israeli town of Sderot shows smoke and debris billowing from a spot targeted by an Israeli air strike inside the Gaza Strip on Nov. 15.
Here, Israelis can be seen taking cover in a large concrete pipe used as a bomb shelter in Kiryat Malachi, Israel. The Israeli armed forces claim that close to 850 rockets have been launched from Gaza at targets in Israel, including Jerusalem and Tel Aviv. Three Israelis have been killed so far in the attacks.
A masked Palestinian militant speaks to the media during a news conference in Gaza City on Nov. 13. Some Islamist militants are demanding "total war against Israel until Jerusalem and the holy ground of Palestine are liberated -- from the Mediterranean to Jordan."
An Israeli tank is photographed in the border settlement of Sderot. The army has been attacking Gaza since the middle of last week in an operation dubbed Pillar of Defense.
Palestinian men gather around a crater caused by an Israeli air strike on a home in Gaza City on Nov. 18.
The Israeli air force continued to conduct air strikes over Gaza Strip on Monday. Here, smoke and an explosion can be seen in Gaza City.
Israeli soldiers from a tank squadron check their weapons at an Israeli army deployment area near the Israel-Gaza Strip border on Monday. 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.
Friends and relatives take cover during a rocket attack at the funeral for Itzik Amsalem, one of three people who died in a Hamas rocket attack in Kiryat Malachi, Israel, on Nov. 16.
Here, Israeli soldiers do their morning prayers in a deployment area at the Israeli border to the Gaza Strip.
Map: The maximum range of Hamas' rockets
