Gaza crisis in pictures

Recent Israeli military action has further deepened the humanitarian crisis facing people living in Gaza. Oxfam is calling for an unconditional cease-fire from both the Israeli government and Hamas so that civilians in Gaza and Israel can be protected. source: http://www.oxfam.org.uk/oxfam_in_ac...

An Israeli boy stands on the staircase of a bomb shelter in Ashkelon

Israel’s military offensive aims to bring an end to militant rocket fire coming from Gaza. Oxfam is calling for an immediate ceasefire from both sides. Photo: REUTERS/Amir Cohen (Israel), courtesy of alertnet.org

A Palestinian man reacts at the hospital after two of his relatives were killed by an Israeli shell in Gaza, 4 January 2009

An Israeli woman and her two children take cover during a rocket attack near Kfar Aza, just outside the northern Gaza Strip on 7 January, 2009

An Israeli military jeep drives in front of the sun setting on the Israel-Gaza border

Residents of Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip inspect houses that have been destroyed in the aftermath of an Israeli airstrike

A Palestinian boy looks up in a damaged house after an Israeli air strike in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip December 30, 2008

A Palestinian girl, who fled with her family from their house, looks out the window at a United Nations aid centre in a school in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip

Photo: REUTERS/Ibraheem Abu Mustafa (GAZA), courtesy of alertnet.org