Images Gaza February 2009

Images of Gaza February, 2009

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Palestinian civilians and medics run to safety during an Israeli strike over a UN school in Beit Lahia, northern Gaza Strip. Israel called a unilateral ceasefire in Gaza on Saturday after a 22-day onslaught against its Islamist rulers which left more than 1,200 Palestinians dead and vast swathes of the territory in ruins. (AFP/Mohammed Abed)

An Iranian man, holding a Lebanese Hezbollah flag, walks past an anti-US mural depicting the Statue of Liberty on the wall of the former US embassy in Tehran on January 20, 2009.

Israel's Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni attend the weekly cabinet meeting in Jerusalem, February 1, 2009. (Sebastian Scheiner/Pool/Reuters)

Israel's Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni and Cabinet Secretary Oved Yehezkel attend the weekly cabinet meeting in Jerusalem, February 1, 2009. (Sebastian Scheiner/Pool/Reuters)

A Palestinian boy eats bread near the ruins of houses which were destroyed during Israel's 22-day offensive in Jabalia in the northern Gaza Strip.

Palestinian militants fire a rocket from the Gaza Strip towards Israel on January 16, 2009.

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Jordanians light candles during a sit-in in Amman February 1, 2009, to show solidarity with the Palestinians in Gaza. REUTERS/Ali Jarekji (JORDAN)

A boy lights candles during a sit-in in Amman February 1, 2009, to show solidarity with the Palestinians in Gaza. REUTERS/Ali Jarekji (JORDAN

A Hamas security guard inspects the wreckage in Gaza City.

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, left, hugs Damascus-based Hamas chief Khaled Mashaal, as he welcomes him for their meeting at the presidency in Tehran, Iran, Sunday, Feb. 1, 2009. (AP Photo/ISNA, Saman Aghvami)

Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei (R) greets Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal in Tehran February 1, 2009. REUTERS/Handout/LEADER.IR (IRAN). FOR EDITORIAL USE ONLY. NOT FOR SALE FOR MARKETING OR ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad flashes the victory sign as he waits for a meeting with Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal in Tehran, February 1, 2009. REUTERS/Morteza Nikoubazl (IRAN)

An elderly Palestinian man gestures while he sits outside a tent, set up to give shelter to people who lost their houses in eastern Jebaliya, northern Gaza Strip, Sunday, Feb. 1, 2009

Palestinians gesture as they drive past destroyed buildings in east Jebaliya, northern Gaza Strip, Sunday, Feb. 1, 2009. G

A Palestinian Hamas member walks through the debris of a destroyed Hamas security compound, which includes the central jail, in Gaza City, Sunday, Feb. 1, 2009

A Hamas security guard inspects the wreckage in Gaza City.

An Israeli helicopter drops flares over the Gaza Strip on January 15

A Palestinian woman, waves Palestinian flag as she holds poster of the Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan with Arabic words reading 'Thanks Erdogan', above, and 'Islamic group', bottom, during a rally held by the Hamas Islamic group, in Beirut, Lebanon, on Sunday Feb. 1, 2009. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)

An Egyptian border police officer stands next to recently installed security cameras on a building at the Egyptian side of Rafah, at the border between Egypt and Rafah, in the southern of Gaza Strip, Sunday, Feb. 1, 2009.

Palestinian carpenters stand near a fire to stay warm in a workshop in the West Bank city of Ramallah, Sunday, Feb. 1, 2009. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen)

Palestinian carpenters gather around a fire to stay warm in a workshop in the West Bank city of Ramallah, Sunday, Feb. 1, 2009. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen)

Palestinian Naim Said looks at two lions, some of the few animals remaining at a zoo in an area devastated in the recent Israeli military offensive, in the eastern part of Gaza City, Sunday, Feb. 1, 2009

Palestinians line-up as they wait to receive food aid at a United Nations distribution center in Shati refugee camp, in Gaza City, Sunday Feb. 1, 2009. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue

Palestinians present their identification as they wait to receive food aid at a United Nations distribution center in the Shati refugee camp, in Gaza City, Sunday Feb. 1, 2009. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)

A Palestinian boy waits to receive treatment at a medical clinic run by visiting Jordanian doctors in Gaza City February 1, 2009. A large team of Jordanian medical workers arrived in Gaza last week to treat Palestinians after Israel's 22-day offensive in the Gaza Strip. REUTERS/Mohammed Salem (GAZA)

A Palestinian woman waits to receive treatment at a medical clinic run by visiting Jordanian doctors in Gaza City February 1, 2009.

Israeli soldiers laugh on the Israel-Gaza border as they return from the Gaza Strip. Prime Minister Gordon Brown called on Israel on Sunday to follow up its withdrawal of troops from the Gaza Strip by opening the crossings into the Palestinian territory. (AFP/Dmitry Kostyukov)

A Palestinian is treated for burns at the Nasser Hospital in Khan Yunis, southern Gaza, on January 12. Dr Yusef Abu Rish at Gaza City's Nasser hospital told AFP that at least 55 people were injured by white phosphorous shells, banned under international law for use against civilians, but permitted for creating smokescreens. An Israeli military spokeswoman denied the claims. (AFP/File/Said Khatib)

Nurses dress the phosphorus burns of Salima Abu Halima, 44, in the Shifa Hospital of central Gaza City on Saturday, Jan. 24, 2009. Doctors, Abu Halima and witnesses say she was badly burned and lost her husband, two sons and a daughter when the Israeli military lobbed a phosphorus shell on her house on Jan. 3 during intense ground combats in the Atatra neighborhood of northern Gaza. Human rights groups are seeking to build a case that Israel and Hamas violated the laws of war during the fighting last month in this tiny coastal territory - a charge both combatants reject. (AP Photo/Alfred de Montesquiou

Venezuelans hold up their ID card during an anti-Semitist protest outside a synagogue in Caracas, Thursday, Feb. 5, 2009. An armed group vandalized Caracas' oldest synagogue on Saturday, shattering religious objects and spray-painting walls amid Venezuela's diplomatic spat with Israel over its military offensive last month in the Gaza Strip. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubil

Heidy Gordon, 85, left, and her husband Andres Gordon, 88, survivors of Auschwitz concentration camp,attend an anti-Semitist protest outside a synagogue in Caracas, Thursday, Feb. 5, 2009. An armed group vandalized Caracas' oldest synagogue on Saturday, shattering religious objects and spray-painting walls amid Venezuela's diplomatic spat with Israel over its military offensive last month in the Gaza Strip. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)

A man, wearing an Israel's flag on his back, holds a girl during an anti-Semitist protest outside Caracas oldest synagogue, Thursday, Feb. 5, 2009. An armed group vandalized the synagogue on Saturday, shattering religious objects and spray-painting walls amid Venezuela's diplomatic spat with Israel over its military offensive last month in the Gaza Strip. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)

An Israeli soldier, left, and a fisherman are seen as a Lebanese ship is seen tied to a tug boat as it is escorted to port in the southern Israeli city of Ashdod, Thursday, Feb. 5, 2009. The Israeli navy on Thursday intercepted a ship delivering 60 tons of supplies from Lebanon to the Gaza Strip and said it was towing the vessel into an Israeli port. The ship set sail from the Lebanese port of Tripoli Tuesday in a bid to defy Israel's blockade of Gaza. (AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov)

A Lebanese journalist holds an anti-Israel placard during a protest in front of the Al Jazeera TV office in Beirut February 5, 2009, against the Israeli seizure of a freighter trying to break the blockade of the Gaza Strip. It was the first apparent attempt by a foreign ship carrying aid to reach the Palestinian enclave since Israel ended its 22-day offensive in the Gaza Strip two weeks ago. No weapons were found aboard the Tali, a cargo vessel flying the flag of the West African state of Togo, an Israeli army spokesman said. REUTERS/ Mohamed Azakir (LEBANON

Lebanese activists load a ship with humanitarian supplies, due to set sail for Gaza in an attempt to break the Israeli blockade of the coastal strip, at the northern port city of Tripoli, February 2, 2009. The Israeli navy boarded the freighter trying to break the blockade of the Gaza Strip on Thursday and escorted it into the port of Ashdod, Israeli officials said. No weapons were found aboard the Tali, a cargo vessel flying the flag of the West African state of Togo. The banner reads, "The national initiative committee to stop the aggression and break the blockade on Gaza. Lebanon". Picture taken February 2, 2009. REUTERS/Omar Ibrahim (LEBANON) Photo Tools

Religious figures and Lebanese activists wave Palestinian and Lebanese flags as they leave onboard a humanitarian ship due to set sail for Gaza, in an attempt to break the Israeli blockade of the coastal strip, at the northern port city of Tripoli, February 2, 2009. The Israeli navy boarded the freighter trying to break the blockade of the Gaza Strip on Thursday and escorted it into the port of Ashdod, Israeli officials said. It was the first apparent attempt by a foreign ship carrying aid to reach the Palestinian enclave since Israel ended its 22-day offensive in the Gaza Strip two weeks ago. No weapons were found aboard the Tali. Picture taken February 2, 2009. REUTERS/Omar Ibrahim (LEBANON)

Palestinian boys play in the rubble of a destroyed house, devastated in Israel's latest incursion into Gaza, in Beit Lahiya, northern Gaza Strip, Thursday, Feb. 5, 2009. Israel says it has given permission for the Palestinian Authority to transfer money from the West Bank to the Gaza Strip to pay government officials there. It's the first such transfer since the end of the three-week Israeli offensive in Gaza last month. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)

Palestinian Mohammed Khalek, 73, and his wife Zane, 62, pose inside their house, devastated and burnt down in Israel's latest incursion into Gaza, in Beit Lahiya, northern Gaza Strip, Thursday, Feb. 5, 2009. Israel says it has given permission for the Palestinian Authority to transfer money from the West Bank to the Gaza Strip to pay government officials there. It's the first such transfer since the end of the three-week Israeli offensive in Gaza last month. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)

A Lebanese ship is escorted by an Israeli naval boat near the port in the southern Israeli city of Ashdod, Thursday, Feb. 5, 2009. The Israeli navy on Thursday intercepted a ship delivering 60 tons of supplies from Lebanon to the Gaza Strip and said it was towing the vessel into an Israeli port. The ship set sail from the Lebanese port of Tripoli Tuesday in a bid to defy Israel's blockade of Gaza. Reporters from Arab TV stations Al-Jadeed and Al-Jazeera who were on the vessel said the Israelis fired at the ship before boarding it and beating those on board. The Israeli navy said no gunshots were fired on the ship while it boarded and seized the vessel. (AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner)

A Palestinian girl carries her sister in front of a destroyed house in Jabalya, in the northern Gaza Strip, February 4, 2009. Thousands of Palestinians are living in tented camps after Israel's three-week assault on the Gaza Strip, hoping for a swift end to Israel's blockade so they can rebuild their homes. Picture taken February 4, 2009. REUTERS/Mohammed Salem (GAZA)

Palestinian women sit in front of tents near their destroyed house in Jabalya, in the northern Gaza Strip, February 4, 2009. Thousands of Palestinians are living in tented camps after Israel's three-week assault on the Gaza Strip, hoping for a swift end to Israel's blockade so they can rebuild their homes. Picture taken February 4, 2009. REUTERS/Mohammed Salem (GAZA

A Palestinian woman waits to receive humanitarian supplies from the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) headquarters in Shati refugee camp in Gaza February 5, 2009. A U.N. aid agency accused Hamas policemen on Wednesday of seizing hundreds of food parcels and thousands of blankets it had planned to distribute to 500 families in a Palestinian refugee camp in the Gaza Strip. (Mohammed Salem/Reuters)

A Lebanese Boat is escorted by Israeli naval ships near the port in the southern Israeli city of Ashdod, Thursday, Feb. 5, 2009. The Israeli navy on Thursday intercepted a ship delivering 60 tons of supplies from Lebanon to the Gaza Strip and said it was towing the vessel into an Israeli port. The ship set sail from the Lebanese port of Tripoli Tuesday in a bid to defy Israel's blockade of Gaza. Reporters from Arab TV stations Al-Jadeed and Al-Jazeera who were on the vessel said the Israelis fired at the ship before boarding it and beating those on board. (AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner)

Palestinian Ahmad Khdear stands inside his destroyed family house in an area struck by Israeli forces during the latest offensive, in Beit Lahiya, northern Gaza Strip, Thursday, Feb. 5, 2009. Informal cease-fires were declared separately by Israel and Hamas two weeks ago at the end of Israel's bruising three-week-long offensive in Gaza. (AP Photo/Adel Hana

Palestinian families protest in front of the Red Cross Offices demanding the release of their relatives from Israeli jails in the West Bank city of Hebron, Thursday Feb. 5, 2009. (AP Photo/Nasser Shiyoukhi)

Children of Palestinian prisoner Fayez Zeidat cry during a protest in the West Bank city of Hebron calling for his release from an Israeli jail February 5, 2009. Zeidat, who has been held in an Israeli prison for 5 years, is suffering from cancer, the head of the Palestinian Prisoners organization said on Thursday. REUTERS/Nayef Hashlamoun (WEST BANK

Children of Palestinian prisoner Fayez Zeidat cry during a protest in the West Bank city of Hebron, calling for his release from an Israeli jail February 5, 2009. Zeidat, who has been held in an Israeli prison for 5 years, is suffering from cancer, the head of the Palestinian Prisoners organization said on Thursday. REUTERS/Nayef Hashlamoun (WEST BANK)

Palestinians carry the body of the Islamic Jihad Ala a-din Abu Rop, during his funeral in the northern West Bank village of Qabatiya, Thursday, Feb. 5, 2009. Israeli troops on a West Bank arrest raid have killed Abu Rop, the 21-year-old commander in northern West Bank village of Qabatiya. Abu Rop's brother said troops barged into their home and shot his brother while he was sitting at a computer. The Israeli military says it arrived in the home early Thursday to find Abu Rop fully armed. (AP Photo/Mohammed Ball

A Palestinian boy, name not given, relative of Islamic Jihad Ala a-din Abu Rop, inspects the damage in the family house after an Israeli army raid in the village of Qabatiya near the West Bank town of Jenin, Thursday, Feb. 5, 2009. Israeli troops on a West Bank arrest raid have killed Abu Rop, the 21-year-old commander in northern West Bank village of Qabatiya. Abu Rop's brother said troops barged into their home and shot his brother while he was sitting at a computer. The Israeli military says it arrived in the home early Thursday to find Abu Rop fully armed. (AP Photo/Mohammed Ballas).

A Palestinian carries sacks of flour received from the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) headquarters in Shati refugee camp in Gaza February 5, 2009. A U.N. aid agency accused Hamas policemen on Wednesday of seizing hundreds of food parcels and thousands of blankets it had planned to distribute to 500 families in a Palestinian refugee camp in the Gaza Strip. REUTERS/Mohammed Salem (GAZA)

The body of Palestinian Al'a Abu al-Rob is carried into hospital in the West Bank city of Jenin February 5, 2009. Israeli troops shot dead al-Rob at his home in the occupied West Bank on Thursday, a Palestinian security official said. An Israeli military spokesman said the belonged to the Islamic Jihad group and was suspected of involvement in attacks against Israelis. REUTERS/Mohamad Torokman (WEST BANK)

Gaza scene : Palestinian children sit in a damaged car in front of the ruins of houses hit during the 22-day Israeli offensive "Operation Cast Lead", in Jabalia, in the northern Gaza Strip. (AFP/Mahmud Hams

Plastic flowers, placed earlier by a Palestinian boy on a car wreck, are seen in the rubble of destroyed buildings in Gaza city, Wednesday, Feb. 4, 2009. Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad says his cash-strapped government will donate USD 600 million (euro 468 million) to help residents of the Gaza Strip rebuild homes shattered in Israel's offensive. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)

Israeli Defense Minister and Labor Party leader Ehud Barak holds a baby during an election campaign stop at a pedestrian mall in Rishon Lezion, south of Tel Aviv, Israel, Wednesday, Feb. 4, 2009. Israel has an election in a week and the current front runner is Likud Party leader Benjamin Netanyahu. Barak and Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni are also running for prime minister in the elections. Polls show Livni trailing the Netanyahu, with Barak in third place. (AP Photo/Yossi Zeliger)

A Palestinian woman whose house was destroyed in the Israeli army offensive prepares stuffed cabbage for her family in Beit Lahia, northern Gaza Strip, Wednesday, Feb. 4, 2009. Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad says his cash-strapped government will donate $600 million to help residents of the Gaza Strip rebuild homes shattered in Israel's offensive. (AP Photo/Hatem Moussa)

A Palestinian woman hangs laundry in front of a building destroyed in the Israeli army offensive offensive, in Beit Lahia, northern Gaza Strip, Wednesday, Feb. 4, 2009. Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad says his cash-strapped government will donate $600 million to help residents of the Gaza Strip rebuild homes shattered in Israel's offensive. (AP Photo/Hatem Moussa)

Palestinian schoolgirls walk next to a destroyed school in Beit Lahia, northern Gaza Strip, Wednesday, Feb. 4, 2009. Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad says his cash-strapped government will donate $600 million to help residents of the Gaza Strip rebuild homes shattered in Israel's offensive. (AP Photo/Hatem Moussa)

A Palestinian woman whose house was destroyed in the Israeli army offensive stands in the rubble left in one of the rooms, in Beit Lahia, northern Gaza , Wednesday,Feb. 4, 2009. Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad says his cash-strapped government will donate $600 million to help residents of the Gaza Strip rebuild homes shattered in Israel's offensive. (AP Photo/Hatem Moussa)

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas attends a press briefing at the European Parliament in Strasbourg February 4, 2009. REUTERS/Vincent Kessler (FRANCE) Photo Tools

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas attends a news briefing at the European Parliament in Strasbourg February 4, 2009. REUTERS/Vincent Kessler (FRANCE)

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas attends a press briefing at the European Parliament in Strasbourg February 4, 2009. REUTERS/Vincent Kessler (FRANCE

Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan, right, and his Qatari counterpart Sheik Hamad bin Jassem Al Thani shake hands before a meeting in Ankara, Turkey, Wednesday, Feb. 4, 2009. Sheik Al Thani, whose Persian Gulf country has emerged as a regional mediator, insisted Tuesday after a meeting with French President Nicolas Sarkozy in Paris that Hamas should not be sidelined from peace efforts. Last week, Erdogan scolded Israeli President Shimon Peres over casualties among Palestinian civilians and walked off the stage during the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. (AP Photo/Burhan Ozbilici)

In this Monday, Jan. 19, 2009 photo, Fatma Zidane El-Banneh, 8, right, and her mother Azza, are seen after returning from a hospital to the Beit Lahiya Elementary Co-educational school, where Azza claims Fatma was burned by white phosphorus, which could not be independently verified, in Beit Lahiya, in the northern Gaza strip. Human rights groups are seeking to build a case that Israel and Hamas violated the laws of war during the fighting last month in this tiny coastal territory - a charge both combatants reject. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)

In this Monday, Jan. 19, 2009 photo, Fatma Zidane El-Banneh, 8, left, and her mother Azza, are seen after returning from the hospital to the Beit Lahiya Elementary Co-educational school, where Azza claims Fatma was burned by white phosphorus, which could not be independently verified, in Beit Lahiya, in the northern Gaza strip. As Gazans mourn their dead and dig through the ruins of homes and mosques, local and international human rights groups have begun gathering evidence they say may indicate that Israel has violated rules of war. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)

Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal gestures during a rally in Tehran university, February 2, 2009. (Raheb Homavandi/Reuters)

A Palestinian woman holds an empty gas canister while waiting at a filling station in the northern Gaza Strip February 3, 2009. Israeli aircraft bombed targets in southern Gaza after dark on Tuesday in response to a rocket attack which hit the Israeli port city of Ashkelon earlier in the day, damaging cars. REUTERS/Ismail Zaydah (GAZA)

An explosion is seen after an Israeli missile strike in Rafah, southern Gaza Strip, Tuesday, Feb. 3, 2009. A medium-range rocket from Gaza exploded in the Israeli city of Ashkelon on Tuesday, and witnesses said Israeli warplanes responded before nighftall with airstrikes on the tunnels used by the territory's Hamas rulers to smuggle in weapons and supplies. (AP Photo/Abdalraheem Khateb)

A man holds up an Israeli flag as he protests anti-shemitism outside the UN's local office in Caracas, Tuesday, Feb. 3, 2009. An armed group vandalized Caracas' oldest synagogue on Saturday, shattering religious objects and spray-painting walls amid Venezuela's diplomatic spat with Israel over its military offensive last month in the Gaza Strip. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)

A Palestinian man walks past tents that house those who lost their homes in the Israeli offensive in the northern Gaza Strip, on January 31, 2009. Israeli warplanes hit Gaza on Tuesday after Prime Minister Ehud Olmert threatened "the severest riposte" to a military grade rocket fired by Palestinian s into a southern town. (AFP/File/Mahmud Hams)

Palestinian schoolgirls walk in the rubble of the Sakhnin School, devastated in Israel's latest incursion into Gaza, in Beit Lahiya, northern of Gaza Strip, Saturday, Jan. 31, 2009. Israel's three-week war on Gaza's Hamas rulers has dealt a painful setback to the territory's already struggling education system. The 380 schools were overcrowded before the war, and with three dozen of them now destroyed or damaged, space for learning is becoming even more scarce. Israel says Hamas s used some schools as cover for their attacks. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)

Palestinian pupils are seen during a lesson in the Omar Ben al-Khattab School, devastated in Israel's latest incursion into Gaza, in Beit Lahiya, northern of Gaza Strip, Saturday, Jan. 31, 2009. Israel's three-week war on Gaza's Hamas rulers has dealt a painful setback to the territory's already struggling education system. The 380 schools were overcrowded before the war, and with three dozen of them now destroyed or damaged, space for learning is becoming even more scarce. Israel says Hamas s used some schools as cover for their attacks. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)

Palestinians wait to receive treatment at a medical clinic run by visiting Jordanian doctors in Gaza City, February 1, 2009. (Mohammed Salem/Reuters)

A Palestinian walks past an unfinished building at a construction site in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip in this January 29, 2009 file photo. (Ibraheem Abu Mustafa/Reuters)

The body of Popular Resistance Committee Ayman Abu Jazar, killed in an Israeli air strike on his car, is seen inside a morgue, in Rafah, southern Gaza Strip, Monday, Feb. 2, 2009.

Palestinian relatives react when mourners carry the body of Ayman Abu Jazer, a from the Popular Resistance Committee, during his funeral in his family house in Rafah, in the southern of Gaza Strip, Monday, Feb. 2, 2009. Abu Jazer was killed during an Israeli air strike on his car, killing him and wounding 2 others. (AP Photo/Majed Hamdan)

Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal speaks during a rally in Tehran university February 2, 2009. A delegation from Hamas, headed by its leader Meshaal, arrived in Tehran on Sunday as part of a regional push to reinforce support for the Palestinian group after the Israeli invasion of Gaza. REUTERS/Raheb Homavandi (IRAN)

Protesters demonstrate in London against the BBC. The BBC is facing more pressure to broadcast a charity appeal for funds for people in Gaza, as the Archbishop of Canterbury joins the row and more than 50 MPs sign a motion condemning the move. (AFP/Frantzesco Kangaris)

A Palestinian teenage girl sits on the rubble of her home destroyed during Israel?s 22-days military offensive in Gaza on January 22 in Beit Lahia, northern Gaza Strip.Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has put the justice minister in charge of defending Israel against charges of war crimes during its Gaza assault, a government source said Friday. (AFP/Patrick Baz)

Libyan leader Moamer Kadhafi, seen here in 2008, wrote in The New York Times that a combined one-state solution is the best way forward for Israel and the Palestinians to finally put an end to "perpetual war. "(AFP/File/Fethi Belaid)

A bulldozer cleans the rubble of destroyed buildings in Gaza City following Israel's 22-day offensive on the Hamas-run territory. Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak -- whose country is hoping to negotiate a lasting truce between Israel and Hamas -- has urged US President Barack Obama to make the Middle East his "urgent priority. "(AFP/Mahmud Hams)

An Israeli soldier sits on his armoured vehicle after pulling out from the Gaza Strip. Israel has withdran all of its soldiers from Gaza on the fourth day of a ceasefire that ended a 22-day blitz on Hamas. More than 1,300 Palestinians were killed in the Israeli bombardment of the Gaza Strip. (AFP/David Buimovitch)

Palestinian children line up for water in the rubble of a mosque in Beit Lahia on January 20. The Israeli offensive in Gaza left more than 1,300 Palestinians dead, more than 400 of them children. (AFP/Patrick Baz)

A Palestinian woman walks in a cemetery surrounded by destroyed buildings after Israel's offensive in Beit Lahiya in the northern Gaza Strip January 19, 2009. REUTERS/Anja Niedringhaus/Pool

An Israeli soldier waves as he exits Gaza. Mussa Abu Marzuq, the exiled number two of the Islamist Hamas movement which controls Gaza, announced a one-week truce to allow Israeli troops to withdraw, in a speech on Syrian state television. (AFP/Dmitry Kostyukov)

A woman cries as she holds the body of one of her relatives at the mortuary of Al-Shifa hospital on January 16, 2009. An international group of lawyers and jurists said Saturday they would ask the International Criminal Court to probe alleged "war crimes" committed by Israel during its offensive in the Gaza Strip. (AFP/File/Mahmud Hams)

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