Daily life in the southern border towns of Israel are returning to normal after eight days of rockets and alerts. A young girl sat in a shopping carriage as her family stocked up with provisions as businesses get back to normal in the Israeli border town of Sderot on Nov. 23.
SCENES FROM ISRAEL-GAZA CONFLICT
Israeli gunfire at the Gaza border killed one Palestinian on Nov. 23 and wounded several others, medics said, two days after a cease-fire between Hamas and Israel took hold. The shooting did not appear to pose an immediate threat to the Egypt-brokered cease-fire, which called for an end to Gaza rocket fire on Israel and Israeli airstrikes on Gaza. The truce came after eight days of cross-border fighting, the bloodiest between Israel and Hamas in four years.
The latest upsurge in a long-running conflict between Israel and Palestinian militants in Gaza was triggered on Nov. 14 when Israel killed Hamas's military mastermind, Ahmed Al-Jaabari, in a precision airstrike on his car. Click through for more scenes of the Gaza-Israeli conflict.
Smoke rose from the Hamas government building known as Abu Khadra, which was destroyed in an Israeli airstrike in Gaza City
Daily life in the southern border towns of Israel are returning to normal after eight days of rockets and alerts. A young girl sat in a shopping carriage as her family stocked up with provisions as businesses get back to normal in the Israeli border town of Sderot on Nov. 23.
Israeli soldiers, friends of Israeli reserve soldier Boris Yarmolnik, 28, mourned during a funeral at the military cemetery in Netanya, Israel, on Nov. 23.
Hassidic Jewish boys danced on a tank to show their support for Israeli soldiers at the northern Gaza Strip border with Israel on Nov. 22. The cease-fire between Israel and Hamas appears to be holding despite rockets being fired on Israel from Gaza.
A Palestinian baby wore a Hamas bandana during a rally to celebrate the Israel-Hamas cease-fire in the Jebaliya refugee camp in the Gaza Strip on Nov. 22.
Israeli infantry soldiers cleaned up the area they have been living in for the past week at a staging area on the border with Gaza on Nov. 22.
Senior Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh waved to people as they celebrated what they called a victory over Israel after an eight-day conflict in Gaza City on Nov 22.
Palestinians checked the damage to a bridge connecting the northern and central part of the Gaza Stri on Nov 22.
Palestinian Islamic Jihad militants held a press conference in Gaza City on Nov. 22.
A Gaza resident hugged a Palestinian Islamic Jihad militant after the press conference.
A Palestinian boy made his way through the debris of the Palestine Sports Stadium in Gaza City on Nov. 22.
Israeli soldiers prepared weapons and vehicles in a deployment area on Nov. 22.
An Israeli soldier held up the Torah scroll during morning prayers in a tent in southern Israel on their first violence-free morning as a cease-fire ending eight days of fierce fighting took hold.
An Israeli reserve soldier wrapped in a prayer shawl offered prayers near an artillery position in southern Israel on Nov. 22.
Smoke and explosion filled the air from Israeli airstrikes in Gaza City on Nov. 21.
Israeli police officers examined a destroyed bus at the site of a bombing in Tel Aviv on Nov. 21. A bomb ripped through an Israeli bus near the nation's military headquarters in Tel Aviv, wounding several people, Israeli officials said.
Israeli police evacuated wounded people after a blast ripped through a bus in Tel Aviv.
A Palestinian man walked through the rubble of the house of Issam Al Da'slees, top aide of Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh, after it was hit by an Israeli airstrike in Nuseirat Refugee Camp in the Gaza Strip on Nov. 21.
An Israeli firefighter stood in front of a house damaged by rocket fire in Timorim, Israel, on Nov. 21.
Palestinians comforted a boy after an Israeli airstrike in Gaza City on Nov. 21.
A building in Rishon Lezion near Tel Aviv was damaged by a rocket fired from the Gaza Strip on Nov. 20.
Hasidic Jewish men rode on a van with Israeli flags during a visit to support the soldiers, near the border with the Gaza Strip on Nov. 19.
Israeli soldiers prepared weapons in a deployment area.
Palestinians gathered around a destroyed house after an Israeli airstrike in the southern Gaza Strip.
Palestinians in the West Bank city of Hebron protested by throwing stones against Israeli soldiers and security forces. European foreign ministers on Nov. 19 called for a ceasefire in the conflict between Israel and Gaza, urging both sides to show restraint and not harm civilians.
Smoke rose following an Israeli attack on smuggling tunnels on the border between Egypt and Rafah in the Gaza Strip.
Smoke billowed as debris flew from the explosion at the local Al-Aqsa TV station in Gaza City on Nov. 18.
A Palestinian outside Ofer, an Israeli military prison near the West Bank city of Ramallah, kicked a burning tire during a protest against Israel's operations in Gaza.
A Palestinian stone-thrower waved a flag from atop a garbage bin outside Ofer prison on Nov. 18.
Palestinians watched bulldozers remove debris from the Daloo family house following an Israeli airstrike in Gaza City. An Israeli missile flattened a two-story house in a residential neighborhood of Gaza City, killing several civilians shortly after Israel announced plans to intensify an offensive by attacking the homes of wanted militants, medical officials said.
Israeli men in the southern Israeli town of Ofakim inspected damages caused by a rocket launched from Palestinian militants from the Gaza Strip.
A Palestinian man rode past an unexploded Israeli bomb in Gaza City on Nov. 17.
Palestinians searched the debris of the Dallu family home following an Israeli airstrike in Gaza City. At least seven members of the same family, including four children, were among nine people killed when an Israeli missile struck a family home, the health ministry said.
Palestinians stood near the rubble of the building of Attia Abu Inkara, a Hamas militant leader, following an Israeli airstrike in Rafah refugee camp in southern Gaza Strip.
Smoke rose from a Hamas site after an Israeli airstrike in the east of Gaza City on Nov. 17.
Palestinian protesters threw stones during clashes with Israeli security forces in Qalandiya checkpoint near the West Bank city of Ramallah.
Israeli security forces in the West Bank city of Hebron reacted to fireworks thrown by Palestinian protesters.
An ultra-Orthodox Jewish man watched as a truck transported Iron Dome antimissiles batteries in the southern city of Ashdod on Nov. 17.
A Palestinian man picked up a binder from the debris after an Israeli airstrike on the Hamas Ministry of Interior in Gaza City on Nov. 16.
A Palestinian youth wearing a Yasser Arafat portrait around his head threw stones at Israeli security forces in the Jalama checkpoint in the West Bank near Jenin city on Nov. 16.
Smoke rose following an Israeli strike in the Gaza Strip, seen from the Israel-Gaza border.
A Palestinian child walks through a damaged mosque after an Israeli airstrike in Beit Hanoun, Gaza.
Israeli soldiers from an Iron Dome unit ate at their base in the southern city of Ashdod on Nov. 15.
Palestinian Hamas members carried the bodies of Hamas militants Mohamed Al Hams (top) and Ahmed Ja'abari (bottom) during their funeral in Gaza City on Nov. 15.
Smoke billowed from a spot targeted by an Israeli airstrike inside the Gaza strip on Nov. 15.
Smoke rises following an Israeli attack in Gaza City on Nov. 16. Early Friday, 85 missiles exploded within 45 minutes in Gaza City, sending black pillars of smoke towering above the coastal strip's largest city. The Israeli military said it was targeting underground rocket-launching sites.
An Israeli soldier shot tear gas at Palestinian protesters in Bet Omar in the West Bank on Nov. 16.
Palestinians surveyed a destroyed house of a Hamas military commander after an Israeli airstrike in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip on Nov. 16.
Smoke rose from Hamas site after Israeli airstrike in the center of Gaza City on Nov. 16.
Palestinian people tried to extinguish a fire after an Israeli airstrike on a wood factory in east Jabaliya in the Gaza Strip on Nov. 16. Reports state that missiles continue to be fired on Israeli targets by Palestinian militant in the Gaza Strip, as Israel continue to strike targets in retaliation inside the Gaza Strip, on the second day of Operation Pillar Cloud, following the assassination of Hamas militant leader Ahmed Jabari.
A bomb dropped by an Israeli warplane exploded at a alleged position of Hamas extremists in the northern Gaza Strip on Nov. 16.
Palestinian youths launched stones at Israeli soldiers, not seen, during a protest in the West Bank city of Bethlehem on Nov. 16 against Israel's military operation in the Gaza Strip.
Israeli military reservists arrived at a gathering point in Mishmar Hanegev in southern Israel on Nov. 16. The Israeli government approved the mobilization of up to 30,000 reservists for a possible ground incursion into Gaza.
A masked Palestinian boy at Ein El Helweh Palestinian refugee camp in Sidon, Lebanon, held a copy of the Koran and a pistol during a demonstration against Israel's military operation in Gaza on Nov. 16. Thousands of people demonstrated in different countries to condemn Israel's airstrikes on Gaza.
Palestinian militants demonstrated at Ein El Helweh Palestinian refugee camp in Sidon, Lebanon, against Israel's military operation in Gaza.
Israeli soldiers prepared armored personnel carriers near the border with the Gaza Strip.
An Israeli soldier threw a stun grenade at Palestinian protesters in Bet Omar in the West Bank during a protest against the current Israeli military operation against the Gaza Strip called Operation Pillar Cloud.
Israelis took cover in a large concrete pipe used as a bomb shelter after a rocket was launched from the Gaza Strip on Nov. 15 in Kiryat Malachi, Israel.
A woman cried during the funeral of Itzik Amsalam, who was killed on Nov. 15 after a rocket fired from Gaza landed in the southern town of Kiryat Malachi.
An Israeli war plane dropped a bomb over the northern Gaza Strip.
Ahmed Al-Jaabari, Hamas's military chief, was killed when his car was hit by an Israeli airstrike. Palestinians helped extinguish the car fire on Nov. 14.
A rocket was launched from Gaza as seen from Sderot on Nov. 15 in Israel.
Smoke trails were seen as an Iron Dome intercepted a rocket launched from Gaza on Nov. 15.
Trails of smoke are seen after the launch of rockets from the northern Gaza strip toward Israel on Nov. 11.
