A child’s room in the Qarara family home in Shujaiya, 26 July

The Qarara family inside their home on 26 July. They fled Shujaiya the day of the massacre on 20 July. They managed to return almost a week later during a ceasefire to assess the damage to their home.

During Israel’s assault on Gaza, boundary areas like Shujaiya, photographed on 26 July, came under prolonged heavy air and artillery strikes.

The Bakr family home in Gaza City was bombed in the early hours of 22 July, the day this photograph was taken.

A boy from the Bakr family walks on the ruins of his home in Gaza City’s beach camp on 22 July. An Israeli missile hit the family’s building, leaving thirty homeless.

Children from the al-Smary family wounded by shrapnel during Israel’s attack on Qarara village in Khan Younis are treated in al-Nasser hospital on 18 July. The family recounted having to leave behind the body of one of their sons as they fled. Qarara, located on the so-called buffer zone along the boundary with Israel, was hit heavily at the beginning of the ground operation and declared a closed military zone by Israel.

During a ceasefire on 26 July, Palestinians briefly return to their homes in Abasan al-Kabira to survey the damage and salvage their belongings. A woman from the Abukther family reacts to the death and destruction around her.

Children outside the morgue at al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City look at the blood left by one of the victims brought in following a bombing in the city on 28 July.

During a ceasefire on 26 July, Palestinians returned to their homes in Shujaiya for a few hours to salvage their belongings.

Source: Electronic Intifada