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Photo Gallery The Mourning after the Hate

With the withdrawal of Israeli troops from the Gaza Strip, the scope of the destruction and human tragedy has become clear. Both sides are trying to come to terms with a war that has ended without any real hope for lasting peace. SPIEGEL reporters in Gaza and Israel have reconstructed the tragic events of the war.
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A main street leading through a neighborhood in east Jabiliya in the Gaza Strip shows the devastation the Israeli army left in its wake.

Foto: DPA
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Palestinian Hilmi Samuni mourns over the bodies of his two sons and a nephew killed by an Israeli tank shell on Jan. 5, 2009.

Foto: AFP
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Dr. Ezzeldeen Abu al-Aish, a Palestinian doctor and peace activist who trained in Israel and became a regular fixture on Israeli television, rests his head on his son Abdullah. "My girls, oh God, they have killed my girls," he told an Israeli television station.

Foto: AP
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John Ging, the United Nations representative in the Gaza Strip (right): "Our warehouse. The schools with the refugees. The university laboratory! The American school, which was built for $7 million, where girls and boys were taught together -- in English! Everything is gone!"

Foto: AFP
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