These are the images from Gaza that are too graphic for many US news outlets to publish (DAY 31)

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It's been 31 days since violence erupted between Israel and Hamas. Since then, more than 1,867 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli air and ground strikes. About 75 percent of Palestinian deaths have been civilians. More than 9,000 Palestinians have been wounded and more than 400,000 displaced. On the Israeli side, 64 soldiers have died, as well as two civilians and a foreign worker. 

Today is the second day of a 72-hour ceasefire.

Those numbers don't convey the horror of what's happening right now in Gaza. Neither do most of the photographs you'll find in news media. Streets and buildings have been blasted to rubble, yes. People are broken and mourning. Those things must be documented. But too often, we hide from the most graphic scenes of violence and death.

This page will do that documenting, and it will be updated as new images continue to appear. This is the cost of war.


Mohammed Badran, a Palestinian boy seriously wounded in the latest Israeli assault on the Gaza Strip, lies on his hospital bed as he receives treatment for burns and injuries at the al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City, on August 7, 2014. The current truce is the longest period of calm since Israel began its military campaign against Hamas on July 8 in a conflict which Gaza medics say killed at least 1,875 people, among them 430 children. Another 9,567 people were wounded in the violence. AFP PHOTO/ MOHAMMED ABED (MOHAMMED ABED/AFP/Getty Images)


Dalia Khalfa, a Palestinian girl who was wounded during the recent Israeli bombardment of the Gaza Strip, waits to receive medical treatment at the al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City, on August 7, 2014. (MOHAMMED ABED/AFP/Getty Images)


Mohammed Khatab, a Palestinian boy whose leg was amputated due to serious injuries sustained during the recent Israeli bombardment of the Gaza Strip, lies on his hospital bed as he receives treatment at the al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City, on August 7, 2014. (MOHAMMED ABED/AFP/Getty Images)


Mahmud Hassan, a 20-year-old Palestinian man injured during an Israeli military strike on the Gaza Strip, lies in a bed on August 7, 2014, after he was transferred by the Red Cross from the Palestinian enclave to the Makassed hospital in East Jerusalem. Doctors and aid agencies are trying to capitalise on a truce in Gaza to evacuate more wounded Palestinians for life-saving medical treatment in east Jerusalem, Israel and Jordan. (AHMAD GHARABLI/AFP/Getty Images)


Omar Ali Wahdan, a three-year-and-a-half-old Palestinian boy wounded in the latest Israeli assault on the Gaza Strip, lies on his hospital bed as he receives treatment for burns and injuries at the al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City, on August 7, 2014. (MOHAMMED ABED/AFP/Getty Images)


Mohammed Ali Wahdan, a two-year-old Palestinian boy wounded in the latest Israeli assault on the Gaza Strip, lies on his hospital bed as he receives treatment for burns and injuries at the al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City, on August 7, 2014. (MOHAMMED ABED/AFP/Getty Images)


Rescue workers remove the body a Palestinian man from under the rubble following an earlier Israeli air strike in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, on August 5, 2014, after a 72-hour truce agreed by Israel and the ruling Hamas movement went into effect following intense global pressure to end the 29 days bloody conflict. Israel announced that all of its troops had withdrawn from the Gaza Strip after completing a mission to destroy a sophisticated network of cross-border attack tunnels, ending a ground operation which began on July 17. (SAID KHATIB/AFP/Getty Images)


Blood-stained gurneys are seen outside the morgue at the Kamal Adwan hospital in Beit Lahia, as members of the Abu Nejim family gather to collect their family members killed in an airstrike on their house in Jabalia in the northern Gaza Strip on August 4, 2014. Israel was observing a temporary unilateral truce in most of the Gaza Strip amid world outrage over a deadly strike on a UN school in the besieged Palestinian territory. (MARCO LONGARI/AFP/Getty Images)


Palestinian medical workers remove the body of child found east of the Rafah refugee camp, in southern Gaza Strip, on August 4, 2014. (MAHMUD HAMS/AFP/Getty Images)


Palestinians remove the body of an eight-year-old from the rubble from a house hit by an Israeli airstrike in the al-Shati refugee camp in Gaza City on August 4, 2014. The eight-year-old girl was killed and 30 people wounded in a strike on the beachfront Shati refugee camp in Gaza City just minutes into an Israeli-declared truce, medics said. (MARCO LONGARI/AFP/Getty Images)


A Palestinian man, wounded in an Israeli air strike on the al-Shati refugee camp, lies on a stretcher as he is treated at the al-Shefa hospital in Gaza City, on August 4, 2014. (MOHAMMED ABED/AFP/Getty Images)


Palestinian children, wounded in an Israeli air strike on the al-Shati refugee camp, lie on stretchers as they are treated at the al-Shefa hospital in Gaza City, on August 4, 2014. (MOHAMMED ABED/AFP/Getty Images)


Palestinians gather around the body of Raghad Masoud, on August 4, 2014, which is being stored in a freezer previously used to store ice-cream because the hospital morgue is full at the Rafah refugee camp, in southern Gaza Strip, after she was killed in an Israeli strike. (MAHMUD HAMS/AFP/Getty Images)


A picture taken on August 3, 2014 at the morgue of a hospital in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip shows the bodies of a baby and two children lying in an ice-cream freezer, killed along with other members of al-Ghul and Abu Jazar families when their houses were hit by an Israeli military strike. At least 10 people died as well in a fresh strike on a UN school in Gaza shortly after Israel confirmed it had begun withdrawing some troops from the war-torn enclave. (SAID KHATIB/AFP/Getty Images)


A picture taken on August 3, 2014, at the morgue of a hospital in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip shows the bodies of a baby and three children lying in an ice-cream freezer, killed along with other members of al-Ghul and Abu Jazar families when their houses were hit by an Israeli military strike. (SAID KHATIB/AFP/Getty Images)


A Palestinian man mourns at the morgue of a hospital in Rafah over the bodies of some of the nine members of the same al-Ghul family who were killed along with other Palestinians after their house was hit by an Israeli air strike on August 3, 2014 in the southern Gaza Strip. (SAID KHATIB/AFP/Getty Images)


A Palestinian man checks the pulse of a wounded man following an Israeli military strike on a UN school in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip on August 3, 2014. (SAID KHATIB/AFP/Getty Images)


A Palestinian man carries an injured child following an Israeli military strike on a UN school in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip on August 3, 2014. (SAID KHATIB/AFP/Getty Images)


A relative shows the body of Razaq Abu Taha, a one-year-old Palestinian baby who was killed in an Israeli military strike on August 2, 2014 at the hospital in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip. At least 296 Palestinian children and adolescents have been killed since Israel launched its offensive in the Gaza Strip against Hamas on July 8, the UN children's agency UNICEF said. (SAID KHATIB/AFP/Getty Images)


A relative shows the body of Razaq Abu Taha, a one-year-old Palestinian baby who was killed in an Israeli military strike on August 2, 2014 at the hospital in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip. (SAID KHATIB/AFP/Getty Images)


Palestinians look at the bodies of three children from the Al-Nirab family who were killed alongside their parents, at a morgue in Gaza City after an Israeli attack on the Palestinian enclave on August 2, 2014. A fresh wave of violence killed dozens in Gaza after the collapse of a UN and US backed ceasefire, officials said, as Hamas denied it kidnapped an Israeli soldier. (MAHMUD HAMS/AFP/Getty Images)


Palestinian relatives carry the body of two month old Noor al-Saidy, killed during attacks on the Gaza Strip, during her funeral in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip on August 2, 2014. (SAID KHATIB/AFP/Getty Images)/span>


The body of a Palestinian man is seen wedged in the rubble of his home following an Israeli military strike on Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, on August 1, 2014. A 72-hour ceasefire took effect today in Gaza but was immediately threatened by deadly shelling, as diplomats pressed for a more durable end to 25 days of devastating violence. (SAID KHATIB/AFP/Getty Images)


Palestinian rescue workers dig out the body of a man from the rubble of his home following an Israeli military strike on Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, on August 1, 2014. (SAID KHATIB/AFP/Getty Images)


Palestinian rescue workers remove the body of a man from the rubble of his home following an Israeli military strike on Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, on August 1, 2014. (SAID KHATIB/AFP/Getty Images)


A journalist films as rescue workers remove the body of a Palestinian man from the rubble of his home following an Israeli military strike on Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, on August 1, 2014. (SAID KHATIB/AFP/Getty Images)


The body of a Palestinian man arrives at al-Najar hospital in the southern of Gaza strip, on August 1, 2014. (SAID KHATIB/AFP/Getty Images)

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The mother of a Palestinian girl, Layan al-Silk, mourns during her funeral in Gaza City on July 31, 2014. At least 10 people were killed in Israeli strikes on central and southern Gaza bringing the Palestinian death toll to 1,374 on day 24 of the conflict. (MAHMUD HAMS/AFP/Getty Images)


The mother of Palestinian girl, Layan al-Silk, touches her child's face while mourning during her funeral in Gaza City on July 31, 2014. (MAHMUD HAMS/AFP/Getty Images)


A wounded Palestinian child taking shelter at a UN school receives treatment at the Kamal Edwan hospital in Beit Lahia in the northern Gaza Strip early on July 31, 2014. Early Thursday, an Israeli strike attacked a mosque near the same UN school in Jabalia, that was attacked the day before, wounding 15 Palestinians, emergency services said. (MOHAMMED ABED/AFP/Getty Images)


A displaced Palestinian taking shelter at a UN school receives treatment at the Kamal Edwan hospital in Beit Lahia in the northern Gaza Strip early on July 31, 2014. (MOHAMMED ABED/AFP/Getty Images)

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A Palestinian man gestures near the victim of an Israeli air strike on a market place in the Shejaiya neighborhood near Gaza City on July 30, 2014. At least 15 people were killed and 150 people wounded in an Israeli air strike on the market, medics said. The strike came shortly after the Israeli army said it was observing a humanitarian lull that would be in force for four hours from 1200 GMT. (MAHMUD HAMS/AFP/Getty Images)


A Palestinian paramedic holds the victim of an Israeli air strike at a market place in the Shejaiya neighborhood near Gaza City, on July 30, 2014. (Photo credit should read MARCO LONGARI/AFP/Getty Images)


Palestinian men move the body of journalist, Rami Rayan, the victim of an Israeli air strike on a market place to an ambulance in the Shejaiya neighborhood near Gaza City on July 30, 2014. (MAHMUD HAMS/AFP/Getty Images)


Palestinian men carry the victim of an Israeli air strike on a market place to a stretcher near an ambulance in the Shejaiya neighborhood near Gaza City on July 30, 2014. (MAHMUD HAMS/AFP/Getty Images)


Palestinian emergency personnel and civilians move the victim of an Israeli air strike on a market place to an ambulance in the Shejaiya neighborhood near Gaza City on July 30, 2014. (MAHMUD HAMS/AFP/Getty Images)

This video shows the aftermath of the Israeli air strike on the market in Shejaiya. Among the sixteen people killed was Rami Rayan, a photojournalist. The video shows Rayan's body, wearing a helmet marked "TV" and a vest marked "PRESS" at the 00:33 mark. Warning: the video is extremely graphic.


Palestinian mourners pray in front of the bodies of ten members of the al-Astal family, that were killed in an Israeli air strike on their homes, during their funeral in Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip on July 30, 2014. Israeli bombardments early on July 30 killed "dozens" Palestinians in Gaza, including at least 16 at a UN school, medics said, on day 23 of the Israel-Hamas conflict. (SAID KHATIB/AFP/Getty Images)


On June 30, 2014, Palestinian rescue workers remove the body of a dead child from under the rubble of the Duheir family home which was destroyed in an Israeli air strike the previous day in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip. (SAID KHATIB/AFP/Getty Images)


A Palestinian who lost relatives in an Israeli strike on a compound housing a UN school in Jabalia refugee camp in the northern Gaza Strip, mourns next to bodies wrapped in shrouds at the Kamal Adwan hospital in Beit Lahia where victims from the attack were brought early on July 30, 2014. (MAHMUD HAMS/AFP/Getty Images)


A Palestinian child, wounded in an Israeli strike on a compound housing a UN school in Jabalia refugee camp in the northern Gaza Strip, is pictured at Kamal Adwan hospital in Beit Lahia early on July 30, 2014. (MOHAMMED ABED/AFP/Getty Images)


The blood-stained hand of a Palestinian is seen as he collects human remains from a classroom inside a UN school in the Jabalia refugee camp after the area was hit by shelling on July 30, 2014. (MARCO LONGARI/AFP/Getty Images)


A Palestinian medic carries the body of five year old, Rana Duheir (L), as another girl from the Abu Zeid family lies on a table, after they were killed in an Israeli air strike, in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip July 29, 2014. Israel's bombardment of Gaza left dozens more Palestinians dead after a black day for the Israeli army, with the spiral of violence showing no sign of abating. (SAID KHATIB/AFP/Getty Images)


A Palestinian medics carries the body of Rana Duheir, a Palestinian girl killed in an Israeli air strike, that destroyed her family's house, in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip July 29, 2014. (SAID KHATIB/AFP/Getty Images)


A frightened Palestinian boy looks towards a doctor mending one of the wounds he received when an Israeli military strike hit his home in Beit Lahia, in the northern Gaza Strip, on July 29, 2014. (MARCO LONGARI/AFP/Getty Images)


A relative of six-year old Palestinian boy from the Gaza Strip, Zehir Al-Najar, mourns over his body at the morgue of Saint Joseph hospital in East Jerusalem, on July 29, 2014 after he died from injuries sustained following an Israeli military strike in the Gaza Strip city of Khan Yunis. (AHMAD GHARABLI/AFP/Getty Images)


A Palestinian man reacts as he looks at the bodies of two children, killed in an explosion in a public playground on the beachfront of Shati refugee camp, as they lie in the morgue of al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City on July 28, 2014. Palestinian medical sources blamed death of at least seven Palestinian children on air strikes launched by the Israeli military, which in turn said Hamas had misfired its own rockets at the camp and at the Shifa hospital. (MARCO LONGARI/AFP/Getty Images)


Palestinian men mourn over the bodies of six children who were killed in a explosion in a public playground in the beachfront Shati refugee camp in Gaza City on July 28, 2014. (MAHMUD HAMS/AFP/Getty Images)


A wounded Palestinian child is wheeled into Gaza City's al-Shifa hospital after an explosion killed eight children in a public playground in the beachfront Shati refugee camp on July 28, 2014. (MOHAMMED ABED/AFP/Getty Images)


The body of a Palestinian child, killed in an explosion in a public playground on the beachfront of Shati refugee camp, is seen in the morgue of al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City on July 28, 2014. (MARCO LONGARI/AFP/Getty Images)


A Palestinian medic holds the body of a child brought to the hopsital morgue, one of several children killed from the al-Najjar (Najar) family in an Israeli air strike on their house in Khan Yunis, in the southern Gaza Strip, on July 26, 2014. (SAID KHATIB/AFP/Getty Images)


Palestinian relatives bury one of several children from the al-Najjar family, killed in an Israeli air strike on their house in Khan Yunis, in the southern Gaza Strip, on July 26, 2014. (Said Khatib/AFP/Getty Images)


A Palestinian woman grieves as she kneels at the bodies of Palestinian children from the al-Najjar family, who were killed in an Israeli air strike on their house, at a hospital morgue in Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip, on July 26, 2014. (Said Khatib/AFP/Getty Images)


Palestinian mourners pray over the bodies of ten victims, including one-year-old baby Noha Mesleh, killed after a UN school in Beit Hanun was hit by an Israeli tank shell, during their funeral in Beit Lahia, northern Gaza strip, on July 25, 2014. Fifteen Palestinians were killed on July 24, when an Israeli shell slammed into a UN shelter where hundreds of civilians had taken refuge. Fresh Israeli fire pushed the overall Palestinian death toll in Gaza to at least 800 despite world efforts to broker a ceasefire. (MAHMUD HAMS/AFP/Getty Images)


A Palestinian man carries the body of a one-year-old baby Noha Mesleh, who died of wounds sustained after a UN school in Beit Hanun was hit by an Israeli tank shell, during her funeral in Beit Lahia, northern Gaza Strip, on July 25, 2014. (MAHMUD HAMS/AFP/Getty Images)

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Rescue workers help a wounded child, a member of Hasnen family, after removing him from under the rubble of their home following an Israeli air strike on Rafah in the southern of Gaza strip, on July 25, 2014, killing two people and wounding three others. (SAID KHATIB/AFP/Getty Images)


A woman mourns over the body of Abd al-Karim al-Shibari, a Palestinian man who was killed after a UN school in the northern Beit Hanun district of the Gaza Strip was hit by an Israeli shell, on July 24, 2014 at the morgue of the Kamal Adwan hospital in Beit Lahiya. (MAHMUD HAMS/AFP/Getty Images)

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The brother of Palestinian child Abdulrahman Abed al-Nabi, 1, grieves over his body as he is laid next to their cousin Hadi Abed al-Nabi, 3, after they were killed in an Israeli military strike in Beit Lahia in the northern Gaza Strip, during their funeral on July 24, 2014. (MOHAMMED ABED/AFP/Getty Images)

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A relative of two-year old Palestinian Lamar Radiya killed by shrapnel from an Israeli tank shell in the north of the Gaza Strip holds her body at the morgue of the Kamal Adwan hospital in Beit Lahia on July 23, 2014. (MARCO LONGARI/AFP/Getty Images)


Two-year-old Palestinian girl Naama Abu al-Foul sleeps after undergoing treatment at Gaza City's Al-Shifa hospital following Israeli bombing next to her family's home in the battered city on July 23, 2014. (MAHMUD HAMS/AFP/Getty Images)


A Palestinian medic carries a wounded girl at a hospital in Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip, on July 23, 2014 following an Israeli military strike near her family home. (SAID KHATIB/AFP/Getty Images)


Palestinian doctors react over the body of nine-year-old Palestinian girl Shahed Qishtah after she died as they were trying to save her life at the Kamal Adwan hospital in Beit Lahia in the norhtern Gaza Strip on July 22, 2014 following an Israeli military strike. (MARCO LONGARI/AFP/Getty Images)

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Palestinians who were visiting patients at the Al-Aqsa Martyrs hospital in Deir al-Balah, in the central Gaza Strip, lie dead on the ground after the hospital building was hit by an Israeli army shelling, on July 21, 2014. Israel shelled the hospital in the central Gaza Strip, killing five people and wounding at least 70, medics said. (MOHAMMED ABED/AFP/Getty Images)


A Palestinian man carries the body of Dalal Siam, a five-month-old child who was killed along with eight members of the Siam family after an Israeli air strike hit their house, during their funeral on July 21, 2014 at a mosque in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip. (SAID KHATIB/AFP/Getty Images)


A Palestinian medic evacuates the body of a girl from Gaza's eastern Shejaiya district on July 20, 2014. At least 40 people were killed and nearly 400 wounded in Israeli shelling of Gaza's northeastern Shejaiya district overnight, medics said. (THOMAS COEX/AFP/Getty Images)


Medics evacuate the body of a boy from Gaza's eastern Shejaiya district on July 20, 2014. (MAHMUD HAMS/AFP/Getty Images)


A Palestinian family lies dead as it sheltered near a stair well during the Israeli military offensive on the Shejaiya neighborhood between Gaza City and the Israeli border, leaving more than 50 people dead in a blistering bombardment which began overnight, medics said on July 20, 2014. The death toll in Gaza passed 400 as Israel pressed its biggest offensive in the enclave in five years, Palestinian health officials said. "410 people have been killed since the war started and more than 3,020 people have been injured, most of them civilians," deputy health minister Yussef Abu Rish told reporters at al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City. (MOHAMMED ABED/AFP/Getty Images)


A Palestinian man reacts as he carries the body of his daughter, who was killed during Israeli shelling, outside at al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City on July 20, 2014. Israel's army said it was expanding its ground offensive against the Gaza Strip, as the bloodiest conflict since 2009 entered its 13th day with a death toll of over 360. (MAHMUD HAMS/AFP/Getty Images)


A Palestinian relative mourns as he holds the body of a baby, who is one of the eight members of the same family who were killed overnight in an Israeli strike, during their funeral on July 19, 2014 in Beit Lahia, north of the Gaza strip. The new deaths raised the toll on the 12th day of violence in Gaza to 316 Palestinians, according to emergency services spokesman Ashraf al-Qudra. (THOMAS COEX/AFP/Getty Images)


The bodies of two boys from the Elwan family, lay at the morgue of al-Shifa hospital, in Gaza City, on July 18, 2014. Intensifying tank shelling and air strikes killed more than a dozen people in the evening of July 18, 2014, aong them were eight members of a single family killed by tank fire on their home in northern Gaza's Beit Hanun, emergency services spokesman Ashraf al-Qudra said. Four children from the family were among the dead, joining another four children killed in several separate incidents of tank fire east of Gaza City, the youngest of them just two years old. (MOHAMMED ABED/AFP/Getty Images)


The body of eight-year-old Jihad Shuheiber lies in a room it al-Shifa hospital, after he and two other children from the same family were killed after an Israeli air strike on a house in the Sabra neighbourhood of Gaza City, on July 17, 2014. Israeli air strikes in Gaza killed five children, medics said, hours after a temporary humanitarian ceasefire ended. (MOHAMMED ABED/AFP/Getty Images)


The body of eight-year-old Jihad Shuheiber inal-Shifa hospital, after he and two other children from the same family were killed after an Israeli air strike on a house in the Sabra neighbourhood of Gaza City, on July 17, 2014. (MOHAMMED ABED/AFP/Getty Images)


Palestinian medics display the bodies of three children from the Shuheiber family who were killed in an airstrike in Gaza City's Sabra district, and four-year-old Yassin al-Humidi, who died from injuries sustained in an earlier air stike, in the morgue at al-Shifa hospital, in Gaza City, on July 17, 2014. (MAHMUD HAMS/AFP/Getty Images)


The bodies of Jihad and Wassim Shuheiber, aged 8 and 7 respectively, and their 10-year-old cousin Fulla lie in the morgue at al-Shifa hospital, in Gaza City, on July 17, 2014. (MAHMUD HAMS/AFP/Getty Images)


Palestinian hospital workers prepare the body of six-year-old Osama Al-Astal, who was killed in his home along with his four-year-old sister and two relatives following an Israeli air strike, ahead of his funeral in Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip on July 17, 2014. (MAHMUD HAMS/AFP/Getty Images)


Palestinian hospital workers prepare the body of six-year-old Osama Al-Astal, who was killed in his home along with his four-year-old sister and two relatives following an Israeli air strike, ahead of his funeral in Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip on July 17, 2014. (MAHMUD HAMS/AFP/Getty Images)


Palestinian hospital workers prepare the body of six-year-old Osama Al-Astal, who was killed in his home along with his four-year-old sister and two relatives following an Israeli air strike, ahead of his funeral in Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip on July 17, 2014. (MAHMUD HAMS/AFP/Getty Images)


Palestinian mourners and family members cry over the bodies of four members of the Astal family, who were killed following an Israeli air strike, ahead of his funeral in Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip on July 17, 2014. (MAHMUD HAMS/AFP/Getty Images)


Palestinian mourners and family members cry over the bodies of two of the four members of the Astal family, who were killed following an Israeli air strike, ahead of his funeral in Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip on July 17, 2014. (MAHMUD HAMS/AFP/Getty Images)


The body of 20-year-old Hamas fighter, Bashir Abdel Aal lies in the morgue of the al-Najar hospital in the southern Gaza Strip town of Rafah on July 17, 2014, after he was killed by tank shells minutes before a five-hour truce went into effect. (SAID KHATIB/AFP/Getty Images)


Palestinian emergency responders push a stretcher carrying the body of Abdullah Akhras, a Palestinian man who was killed by Israeli tank shells minutes before a five-hour truce went into effect, as they arrive at the al-Najar hospital in the southern Gaza Strip town of Rafah on July 17, 2014. (SAID KHATIB/AFP/Getty Images)


A Palestinian mourner carries the body of five-month-old girl Lama al-Satri after she was killed in an Israeli air strike the previous day, during her funeral in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip on July 16, 2014. (SAID KHATIB/AFP/Getty Images)


A 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. (MOHAMMED ABED/AFP/Getty Images)


The body of one of the four Palestinian boys, all from the Bakr family, is seen at the morgue of 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. (MAHMUD HAMS/AFP/Getty Images)


The bodies of three out of the four Palestinian boys, all from the Bakr family, are seen at the morgue of al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City, on July 16, 2014. (MAHMUD HAMS/AFP/Getty Images)


The body of two of the four Palestinian boys, all from the Bakr family, is seen at the morgue of al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City, on July 16, 2014. (MAHMUD HAMS/AFP/Getty Images)


A relative of four Palestinian boys, all from the Bakr family, mourns over the body of one of the boys at the morgue of al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City, on July 16, 2014. (MAHMUD HAMS/AFP/Getty Images)

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Palestinian relatives of four boys killed in Israeli bombardment, all from the Bakr family, carry the dead body to the family house during the funerals in Gaza City, on July 16, 2014. (MAHMUD HAMS/AFP/Getty Images)


Palestinian mourners carry the bodies of four boys, all from the Bakr family, during their funeral in Gaza City, on July 16, 2014. (MOHAMMED ABED/AFP/Getty Images)


Palestinian mourners carry the bodies of four boys, all from the Bakr family, during their funeral in Gaza City, on July 16, 2014. (Photo credit should read MOHAMMED ABED/AFP/Getty Images)

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A Palestinian boy is treated by journalists at the al-Deira hotel after he was injured during an Israeli air strikes in Gaza City, on July 16, 2014. (THOMAS COEX/AFP/Getty Images)

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Palestinian employees of Gaza City's al-Deira hotel carry a wounded boy following an Israeli military strike nearby on the beach, on July 16, 2014. (THOMAS COEX/AFP/Getty Images)

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The following videos show the immediate aftermath of the bombing that killed the four boys. Warning: the videos are extremely graphic.


Relatives of Ismail Fattuh, a 25-year-old Palestinian man who was killed in an Israeli air strike, mourn over his body during his funeral on July 16, 2014 in Gaza City. (MAHMUD HAMS/AFP/Getty Images)


A wounded Palestinian child cries while receiving medical care at a hospital in Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip on July 16, 2014 following an Israeli military strike. Israel urged 100,000 Gazans to flee their homes on Wednesday, but the warning was largely ignored despite an intensification of the military's nine-day campaign after Hamas snubbed a ceasefire effort. (MOHAMMED ABED/AFP/Getty Images)


A wounded Palestinian child cries while receiving medical care at a hospital in Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip on July 16, 2014 following an Israeli military strike. (MOHAMMED ABED/AFP/Getty Images)


A wounded Palestinian child cries while receiving medical care at a hospital in Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip on July 16, 2014 following an Israeli military strike. (MOHAMMED ABED/AFP/Getty Images)


A wounded man is brought to the al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City late on July 15, 2014, following an Israeli air strike. (MAHMUD HAMS/AFP/Getty Images)


A wounded man is brought to the al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City late on July 15, 2014, following an Israeli air strike. (MAHMUD HAMS/AFP/Getty Images)

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A Palestinian mother kisses the body of four-year-old girl Sarah Sheik al-Eid after she was killed along with her father and uncle in a Israeli military strike the previous day, during their funeral in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip on July 15, 2014. (SAID KHATIB/AFP/Getty Images)


A Palestinian mourner carries the body of four-year-old girl Sarah Sheik al-Eid after she was killed along with her father and uncle in a Israeli military strike the previous day, during their funeral in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip on July 15, 2014. (SAID KHATIB/AFP/Getty Images)


Palestinian mourners surround the bodies of four-year-old Palestinian girl Sarah Sheik al-Eid and of her father and uncle, during their funeral in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip on July 15, 2014 after they were killed in an Israeli military strike the previous day. (SAID KHATIB/AFP/Getty Images)

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(Note: there are conflicted reports about whether Noor Abu Issa has died.)

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Relatives and friends mourn over the body of Musa Moamer, a 60-year-old Palestinian man killed in an Israeli air strike along with three members of his family, during their funeral in southern Gaza city of Rafah on July 14, 2014. (SAID KHATIB/AFP/Getty Images)

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Palestinians carry the body of Adham Abed el-Al, who died the day before in an Israeli airstrike, before his funeral on July 14, 2014 in Gaza City. (MAHMUD HAMS/AFP/Getty Images)


Relatives and friends carry the body of Saddam Moamer, a 26-year-old Hamas fighter killed in an Israeli air strike along with his father and two other members of his family, during their funeral in southern Gaza Strip city of Rafah on July 14, 2014. (SAID KHATIB/AFP/Getty Images)


A Palestinian man, who was wounded during Israeli strikes in Gaza City, lays on his bed at King Hussein Medical Center where he was transferred to receive medical care on July 13, 2014 in the Jordanian capital, Amman. (KHALIL MAZRAAWI/AFP/Getty Images)

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The father of 3-year-old Palestinian child, Mouid al-Araj, carries his sons body during his funeral in Khan Yunis, in the southern Gaza Strip on July 13, 2014. (Said Khatib/AFP/Getty Images)


The grandfather of 3-year-old Palestinian child, Mouid al-Araj, carries his grandsons' body during his funeral in Khan Yunis, in the southern Gaza Strip on July 13, 2014. (SAID KHATIB/AFP/Getty Images)


Sally Sakr, 20-years-old, from the Palestinian center for people with special needs lies in a hospital bed in Gaza City on July 12, 2014, after the center housing her was targeted by an Israeli air strike in Beit Lahia, northern Gaza Strip. (MOHAMMED ABED/AFP/Getty Images)

On Saturday, an Israeli airstrike hit the home of Gaza police chief Tayseer al-Batsh. It was the bloodiest single attack yet, killing 18, most of whom were members of al-Batsh's family. This video contains horrific footage of the attack's aftermath. Photos and an additional video below show the funeral.

Palestinians carry a body during the funeral of 18 members of the al-Batsh family who were killed the previous night in Israeli strikes that hit their house as they were targeting Hamas police chief Tayseer al-Batsh on July 13, 2014 in Gaza City. (Thomas Coex/AFP/Getty Images)


Palestinians mourn over the body of a member of the al-Batsh family, after their house was targeted by an Israeli air strike that killed 18 family members, during their funeral on July 13, 2014. (MAHMUD HAMS/AFP/Getty Images)


Palestinian mourners pray over the bodies of 18 people of the al-Batsh family, after their house was targeted by an Israeli air strike, during their funeral on July 13, 2014. (MAHMUD HAMS/AFP/Getty Images)


Palestinians bury human remains during the funeral of 18 members of al-Batsh family on July 13, 2014 in Gaza City. (Thomas Coex/AFP/Getty Images)


A Palestinian man, who was wounded in an Israeli air strike, lays on a stretcher in an ambulance before being given the permission to cross into Egypt at the Rafah crossing between Egypt and the southern Gaza Strip on July 12, 2014. (Said Khatib/AFP/Getty Images)


Palestinian women check on Salwa Abu Al-Qumsan, a 52-year-old nanny working with the Palestinian center for people with special needs as she lies in a hospital bed in Gaza City on July 12, 2014, after the center housing her was targeted by an Israeli air strike in Beit Lahia, northern Gaza Strip. (Mohammed Abed/AFP/Getty Images)


The body of Suha Abu Saada, 28-years-old, lies in a morgue in Gaza city, after the Palestinian center for people with special needs housing her in Beit Lahia, northern Gaza Strip, was targeted by an Israeli air strike on July 12, 2014. (Mohammed Abed/AFP/Getty Images)


Relatives and friends of a Palestinian, who was killed in an Israeli air raid, carry his body during his funeral in Gaza City, on July 12, 2014. (Mohammed Abed/AFP/Getty Images)


Palestinian mourners carry the body of four-year-old boy Sahir Abu Namus, during his funeral in Jabalia refugee camp in the northern Gaza Strip on July 11, 2014, after he was killed following an Israeli air strike. Israel's aerial bombardment of Gaza claimed its 103rd Palestinian life as Hamas pounded central Israel with rockets and Washington offered to help broker a truce. (MAHMUD HAMS/AFP/Getty Images)


Palestinian mourners pray over the body of four-year-old boy Sahir Abu Namus, during his funeral in Jabalia refugee camp in the northern Gaza Strip on July 11, 2014, after he was killed following an Israeli air strike. (MAHMUD HAMS/AFP/Getty Images)

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Relatives and friends carry the body of Noor al-Najdi, 10-years-old, during her funeral in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, on July 11, 2014. (SAID KHATIB/AFP/Getty Images)


Relatives and friends carry the body of Noor al-Najdi, 10-years-old, during her funeral on July 11, 2014. (SAID KHATIB/AFP/Getty Images)

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Palestinians prepare the body of Palestinian doctor Anas Abu al-Kas, 33, in the morgue of the al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City on July 11, 2014. (MAHMUD HAMS/AFP/Getty Images)


The wife of Palestinian doctor Anas Abu al-Kas, 33, mourns over his body during his funeral in family home in the Jabalia refugee camp in the northern Gaza Strip on July 11, 2014. (MAHMUD HAMS/AFP/Getty Images)


The wife of Palestinian doctor Anas Abu al-Kas, 33, mourns over his body during his funeral in family home in the Jabalia refugee camp in the northern Gaza Strip on July 11, 2014. (MAHMUD HAMS/AFP/Getty Images)


Palestinians carry a body, a member of the Ghanam family, after being removed from under the rubble of their home following an Israeli air raid on Rafah, in the southern of Gaza strip , on July 11, 2014. Five Palestinians, including a woman and seven-year-old child, died when the house in Rafah in southern Gaza was hit, and 15 other people were wounded, Gaza emergency services spokesman Ashraf al-Qudra said. (SAID KHATIB/AFP/Getty Images)


A Palestinian carries a body, a member of the Ghanam family, after being removed from under the rubble of their home following an Israeli air raid on Rafah, in the southern of Gaza strip , on July 11, 2014. (SAID KHATIB/AFP/Getty Images)

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Palestinian doctors look after a man before he dies from his wounds following an Israeli air strike in the southern Gaza Strip city of Khan Yunis, on July 10, 2014. (THOMAS COEX/AFP/Getty Images)


A Palestinian doctor writes a name on the shroud wrapping the body of a man who died from his wounds following an Israeli air strike in the southern Gaza Strip city of Khan Yunis, on July 10, 2014. (THOMAS COEX/AFP/Getty Images)


The body of five-year-old Palestinian boy Abdallah Abu Ghazal lies at a morgue in the northern Gaza town of Beit Lahiya on July 10, 2014 after he was killed in an Israeli air strike. (MAHMUD HAMS/AFP/Getty Images)


Palestinian mourners carry the body of five-year-old boy Abdallah Abu Ghazal during his funeral in the northern Gaza town of Beit Lahiya on July 10, 2014 after he was killed in an Israeli air strike. (MAHMUD HAMS/AFP/Getty Images)


The body of five-year-old Abdallah Abu Ghazal lies at a mosque during a funeral ceremony in the northern Gaza town of Beit Lahiya on July 10, 2014 after he was killed in an Israeli air strike. (MAHMUD HAMS/AFP/Getty Images)


The body of Abdallah Abu Ghazal lies at a mosque during a funeral ceremony in the northern Gaza town of Beit Lahiya on July 10, 2014 after he was killed in an Israeli air strike. (MAHMUD HAMS/AFP/Getty Images)


Palestinians inspect the wreckage of a car hit by an Israeli air strike, killing three people and wounding four others, early on July 10, 2014 in Gaza City. (MAHMUD HAMS/AFP/Getty Images)


Palestinian rescuers collect pieces of flesh in a car hit by an Israeli air strike killing the driver in Gaza City on July 9, 2014. (HOMAS COEX/AFP/Getty Images)

This strike killed Hamid Shebab, who was working as a driver for Media24, a news agency based in Gaza. On the day of the strike, Shebab had been driving photographers and journalists from the agency to hospitals and sites hit by Israeli air strikes. The car was marked "T-V" to indicate that it was a press car. That sign did not work.

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This video shows the gruesome aftermath of this particular strike.


An injured child at the al-Najar hospital in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, on July 9, 2014. (SAID KHATIB/AFP/Getty Images)


The father of Palestinian baby Ranim al-Gafur carries her body during a funeral ceremony for Ranim and her mother, Amal, on July 9, 2014 after they were both killed today in an Israeli air strike in the town of Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip. (SAID KHATIB/AFP/Getty Images)


Emergency responders carry the body of a man, found under the rubble of his house following an Israeli airstrike on Maghazi refugee camp in central Gaza Strip on July 9, 2014. (MAHMUD HAMS/AFP/Getty Images)


A Palestinian man looks at the bodies of two young Palestinians at a morgue in the al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City, following an Israeli air strike on July 9, 2014. (MAHMUD HAMS/AFP/Getty Images)


A dead Palestinian child, Mohammed Malaka, 2, is brought to the morgue at the al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City, follwoing an Israeli air strike on July 9, 2014. (MAHMUD HAMS/AFP/Getty Images)

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A Palestinian man holds the drawer of a morgue fridge, where 2-year-old Mohammed Malaka is being kept before burial, at the al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City. (MAHMUD HAMS/AFP/Getty Images)


Relatives and friends of the al-Kaware family carry seven bodies to the mosque during a funeral in Khan Yunis, in the Gaza Strip, on July 9, 2014. The father, a member of the Fatah movement, and his six young sons were all killed the day before in an Israeli air strike that targeted their home. (THOMAS COEX/AFP/Getty Images)


A Palestinian looks at the body of a boy killed in an Israeli air strike at a morgue in the al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City, on July 9, 2014. (MAHMUD HAMS/AFP/Getty Images)


A wounded man is brought into the al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City on July 9, 2014 following an Israeli air strike. (MOHAMMED ABED/AFP/Getty Images)


A Palestinian man carries his wounded daughter into the al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City on July 9, 2014 following an Israeli air strike. (MOHAMMED ABED/AFP/Getty Images)


A wounded Palestinian girl is treated by medics at the al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City on July 9, 2014 following an Israeli air strike. (MOHAMMED ABED/AFP/Getty Images)


A wounded Palestinian boy is treated by medics at the al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City on July 9, 2014 following an Israeli air strike. (MOHAMMED ABED/AFP/Getty Images)


Wounded children are brought into the the al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City on July 9, 2014 following an Israeli air strike. (MOHAMMED ABED/AFP/Getty Images)


A Palestinian man removes bloody cushions from an outdoor sitting area following an Israeli air strike in Beit Hanun, in the northern of Gaza Strip on July 9 2014. (MOHAMMED ABED/AFP/Getty Images)

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Palestinian relatives of Ahmed Mehdi, 14, stand next to his body at a hospital in Gaza City on July 8, 2014 after his was killed in an Israeli air strike. (MOHAMMED ABED/AFP/Getty Images)


A Palestinian paramedic shows the remains of four people from the same family after their home was targeted during an Israeli air strike on July 8, 2014 in the Gaza Strip town of Khan Yunis. In the worst strike, a missile slammed into a house in the southern part of the city killing seven people, among them two teenagers, and wounding 25, emergency services spokesman Ashraf al-Qudra told AFP. Witnesses said an Israeli drone fired a warning flare, prompting relatives and neighbors to gather at the house as a human shield. But shortly afterwards, an F-16 warplane fired a missile that leveled the building. (THOMAS COEX/AFP/Getty Images)


Palestinian men look at the body of killed Hamas fighter Rashad Yassin, 28, in the morgue of the al-Aqsa hospital in Deir al-Balah, in the central Gaza Strip on July 8, 2014. Five Palestinians were killed as Israeli warplanes pounded Gaza at the start of a new campaign to stamp out rocket fire by Hamas militants on southern Israel. (MAHMUD HAMS/AFP/Getty Images)


Palestinians remove the body of a man from a vehicle targeted in an Israeli airstrike on Gaza City on July 8, 2014. (MOHAMMED ABED/AFP/Getty Images)


Fire fighters extinguish a vehicle targeted in an Israeli airstrike on Gaza City on July 8, 2014. (MOHAMMED ABED/AFP/Getty Images)

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Palestinians look at the bodies of two fighters in the mourgue of al-Aqsa hospital in Deir al Balah center Gaza Strip on July 06, 2014. (MAHMUD HAMS/AFP/Getty Images)


Palestinian mourners gather in a mosque as they pray over the bodies of five Hamas fighters during their funeral in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, on July 7, 2014. (SAID KHATIB/AFP/Getty Images)

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