Israel and Palestinian militants exchanged rocket and missile fire on Monday night, following a botched Israeli commando incursion into the Strip a day earlier. By Tuesday evening, the two sides had announced an Egyptian-brokered ceasefire, but not before at least seven people, all of them Palestinian, were killed, and many others wounded in both Israel and Gaza.
By Mohammed Zaanoun and Oren Ziv / Activestills.org
An Israeli air strike on Gaza City, after Palestinians fired rockets from the Strip into Israel following a botched IDF raid deep inside Gaza, November 12, 2018 (Mohammad Zaanoun/Activestills.org)
Palestinians in Gaza look on at the remains of the Yaziji building in Gaza City, following air strikes by the Israeli Air Force. Yaziji served as both a residential and commercial building, and was home to around 40 families, November 13, 2018. (Mohammad Zaanoun/Activestills.org)
Smoke trails and explosions caused by Iron Dome interceptions of rockets from Gaza are seen over the Israeli city of Ashkelon Tuesday morning. (Oren Ziv/Activestills.org)
Palestinian children seen following the destruction of a building that housed Al Aqsa television station, following an Israeli air strike, November 13, 2018. (Mohammad Zaanoun/Activestills.org)
An Israeli man and his daughter seen after their house was hit by a rocket fired by Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, Ashkelon, southern Israel, November 13, 2018. (Oren Ziv/Activestills.org)
Palestinians look on at the remains of the Yaziji building in Gaza City, following air strikes by the Israeli Air Force. Yaziji served as both a residential and commercial building, and was home to around 40 families, November 13, 2018. (Mohammad Zaanoun/Activestills.org)
An Ethiopian-Israeli woman holds up shrapnel from a rocket fired from the Gaza Strip that exploded in the southern Israeli city of Ashkelon, November 13, 2018. (Oren Ziv/Activestills.org)
An Israeli in the city of Ashkelon looks on from his apartment following a night of rocket attacks on southern Israel, November 13, 2018. (Oren Ziv/Activestills.org)
A Palestinian man assesses the damage following an Israeli air strike on Al-Amal Hotel, Gaza City, November 13, 2018. (Mohammed Zaanoun/Activestills.org)
Palestinians in Gaza look on at the remains of the Yaziji building in Gaza City, following air strikes by the Israeli Air Force. Yaziji served as both a residential and commercial building, and was home to around 40 families, November 13, 2018. (Mohammad Zaanoun/Activestills.org)
A Palestinian man looks on from the remains of a building that housed the Al Aqsa television station, following an Israeli air strike, November 13, 2018. (Mohammad Zaanoun)
A Palestinian family seen walking through Al-Amal Hotel in Gaza City after it was bombed by the Israeli Air Force, November 13, 2018. (Mohammed Zaanoun/Activestills.org)
A damaged car seen in the southern Israeli city of Ashkelon, following a massive rocket attack by Palestinians in Gaza, November 13, 2018. (Oren Ziv/Activestills.org)
Our team has been devastated by the horrific events of this latest war – the atrocities committed by Hamas in Israel and the massive retaliatory Israeli attacks on Gaza. Our hearts are with all the people and communities facing violence.
We are in an extraordinarily dangerous era in Israel-Palestine. The bloodshed unleashed by these events has reached extreme levels of brutality and threatens to engulf the entire region. Hamas’ murderous assault in southern Israel has devastated and shocked the country to its core. Israel’s retaliatory bombing of Gaza is wreaking destruction on the already besieged strip and killing a ballooning number of civilians. Emboldened settlers in the West Bank, backed by the army, are seizing the opportunity to escalate their attacks on Palestinians.
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