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Editor's note: Some of the following images contain graphic content. While reports are conflicting, at least 500 (possibly as many as 570) Palestinians and 27 Israelis have been killed since Israel began an offensive in the Gaza Strip on July 8 intending to quash Hamas rocket fire and destroy Hamas tunnels linking the Strip to Israeli territory. On Monday, Palestinian deaths topped 100 for the second day in a row. With the offensive approaching the two-week mark, the U.N. Security Council has called for an immediate ceasefire, and U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry flew to Cairo to push for a cessation of hostilities. Here is a look at the scene on the ground. Above, rescue crews evacuate the wounded and the dead in the Gaza neighborhood of Shejaiya, July 20. Ashraf Amra/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images

Editor's note: Some of the following images contain graphic content. While reports are conflicting, at least 500 (possibly as many as 570) Palestinians and 27 Israelis have been killed since Israel began an offensive in the Gaza Strip on July 8 intending to quash Hamas rocket fire and destroy Hamas tunnels linking the Strip to Israeli territory. On Monday, Palestinian deaths topped 100 for the second day in a row. With the offensive approaching the two-week mark, the U.N. Security Council has called for an immediate ceasefire, and U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry flew to Cairo to push for a cessation of hostilities. Here is a look at the scene on the ground. Above, rescue crews evacuate the wounded and the dead in the Gaza neighborhood of Shejaiya, July 20. Ashraf Amra/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images

Gaza Under Fire

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Editor's note: Some of the following images contain graphic content. While reports are conflicting, at least 500 (possibly as many as 570) Palestinians and 27 Israelis have been killed since Israel began an offensive in the Gaza Strip on July 8 intending to quash Hamas rocket fire and destroy Hamas tunnels linking the Strip to Israeli territory. On Monday, Palestinian deaths topped 100 for the second day in a row. With the offensive approaching the two-week mark, the U.N. Security Council has called for an immediate ceasefire, and U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry flew to Cairo to push for a cessation of hostilities. Here is a look at the scene on the ground. Above, rescue crews evacuate the wounded and the dead in the Gaza neighborhood of Shejaiya, July 20. Ashraf Amra/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images

A search for survivors in the rubble of a building destroyed by an Israeli airstrike in Gaza City, July 21. Mahmud Hams/AFP/Getty Images

Israeli riot police arrest an Arab Israeli man during clashes following a protest against Israel's military offensive in the Gaza Strip, in the northern Israeli city of Nazareth, July 21. Ahmad Gharabli/AFP/Getty Images

Scores of Palestinian Muslims sought refuge in central Gaza City's Church of St. Porphyrius on July 21 after the Shejaiya neighborhood in the eastern part of the city was pounded by Israeli artillery one day earlier. Ali Jadallah/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images

Israeli soldiers mourn during the funeral ceremony for Israeli soldier Moshe Malko, at Mount Herzl Military Cemetery, Jerusalem, July 21. Malko was killed in action early on July 20. Salih Zeki Fazlioglu/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images

Palestinian medics from Gaza City's al-Shifa Hospital react as body bags with the remains of ten children arrive following Israeli airstrikes, July 21. Marco Longari/AFP/Getty Images

An Israeli unit fires artillery toward the Gaza Strip from a position near Israel's border with the coastal Palestinian enclave, July 21. Menahem Kahana/AFP/Getty Images

Israeli riot police clash with Arab Israeli men following a protest against Israel's military offensive on the Gaza Strip, in the northern Israeli city of Nazareth, July 21. Ahmad Gharabli/AFP/Getty Images

Family members of Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) Major Tsafrir Bar-Or, a member of the Golani Brigade who was killed in Gaza on July 20, mourn during his funeral in Holon, Israel, July 21. Ilia Yefimovich/Getty Images

Relatives and friends mourn over the bodies of nine members of the Siam family, killed in an Israeli airstrike, during a funeral at a mosque in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, July 21. Said Khatib/AFP/Getty Images

A Palestinian woman stands in front of a three-story house destroyed following heavy Israeli bombardment, in Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip, July 21. Mohammed Abed/AFP/Getty Images

An Israeli honor guard during the funeral of Major Tsafrir Bar-Or in Holon, Israel, July 21. Ilia Yefimovich/Getty Images

Displaced Palestinians from Gaza's Shejaiya neighborhood rest on makeshift beds at the U.N. shelter where they and others have taken refuge after fleeing heavy fighting, July 21. Marco Longari/AFP/Getty Images

Palestinians watch rubble removal following an Israeli airstrike, in Gaza City, July 21. Mahmud Hams/AFP/Getty Images

Palestinians displaced from the northern Beit Hanun district in the Gaza Strip make their way towards a U.N. shelter in Beit Lahia where residents have fled amid heavy fighting, July 21. Marco Longari/AFP/Getty Images

Palestinian rescuers evacuate a body following an Israeli military offensive on Gaza's Shejaiya neighborhood, July 20. Mohammed Abed/AFP/Getty Images

Wounded Israeli soldiers are evacuated at an army deployment area near Israel's border with the Gaza Strip, July 20. Jack Guez/AFP/Getty Images

Palestinians at Gaza City's al-Shifa Hospital mourn over the bodies of relatives killed in the Israeli offensive, on July 20. Mustafa Hassona/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images

Relatives mourn over the coffin of Israeli Sergeant Bnaya Rubel during a funeral in Holon, Israel, July 20. Rubel was killed in southern Gaza on July 19. Ilia Yefimovich/Getty Images

Palestinians clash with Israeli troops following a protest against Israeli operations in Gaza, at the al-Jalazone Camp in Ramallah, West Bank, July 20. Issam Rimawi/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images

The streets of Gaza's Shejaiya neighborhood after Israeli attacks, July 20. Mustafa Hassona/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images

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