Israel pushes ahead with Gaza offensive
*WARNING: Graphic images* Israel bombarded towns across southern Gaza today with airstrikes, killing at least 45 Palestinians and pressing ahead with its offensive.
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Palestinians search for bodies and survivors in the rubble of a residential building destroyed in an Israeli airstrike, in Rafah, southern Gaza Strip, Tuesday, Dec. 19.ASSOCIATED PRESS
Palestinians pull a body out of the rubble of a residential building destroyed in an Israeli airstrike, in Rafah, southern Gaza Strip, Tuesday, Dec. 19.ASSOCIATED PRESS
Palestinians search for survivors after the Israeli bombardment of the Gaza Strip outside a morgue in Rafah, Tuesday, Dec. 19.ASSOCIATED PRESS
Palestinians search for survivors after the Israeli bombardment of the Gaza Strip outside a morgue in Rafah, Tuesday, Dec. 19.ASSOCIATED PRESS
Palestinians watch the destruction after the Israeli bombardment of the Gaza Strip outside a morgue in Rafah, Tuesday, Dec. 19.ASSOCIATED PRESS
Palestinians survey the destruction after the Israeli bombardment of the Gaza Strip outside a morgue in Rafah, Tuesday, Dec. 19.ASSOCIATED PRESS
Palestinians survey the destruction after the Israeli bombardment of the Gaza Strip outside a morgue in Rafah, Tuesday, Dec. 19.ASSOCIATED PRESS
Palestinians survey the destruction after the Israeli bombardment of the Gaza Strip outside a morgue in Rafah, Tuesday, Dec. 19.ASSOCIATED PRESS
Palestinians bury their relatives killed in the Israeli bombardment of the Gaza Strip, at a cemetery in Rafah, southern Gaza, Tuesday, Dec. 19.ASSOCIATED PRESS
A Palestinian woman shows the body of her grandchild to the child's father after it was killed in the Israeli bombardment of the Gaza Strip outside a morgue in Rafah, Tuesday, Dec. 19.ASSOCIATED PRESS
A Palestinian holds the body of a child killed in the Israeli bombardment of the Gaza Strip outside a morgue in Rafah, Tuesday, Dec. 19.ASSOCIATED PRESS
Palestinians stand by relatives killed in the Israeli bombardment of the Gaza Strip outside a morgue in Rafah, Tuesday, Dec. 19.ASSOCIATED PRESS
Colleagues attend the funeral of Adel Zorob, a Palestinian freelance journalist who was killed with his family in the Israeli bombardment of the Gaza Strip outside a morgue in Rafah, Tuesday, Dec. 19.ASSOCIATED PRESS
Palestinians mourn their relatives killed in the Israeli bombardment of the Gaza Strip, at the hospital Rafah, southern Gaza, Tuesday, Dec. 19.