The 12-hour humanitarian ceasefire gave Gaza residents a chance to return to their homes – or what was left of it – after days of unrelentless bombardments from Israeli fire. More than 100 bodies were pulled out from under the rubble. Photos by Heidi Levine for The National
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The temporary truce allowed Palestinian emergency services and residents to enter areas that had for days been too dangerous to go into. -
Palestinian health official Ashraf Al Qedra said 132 bodies were recovered from the rubble of neighbourhoods devastated by Israeli bombardment and fighting between troops and Gaza militants. -
Residents of the Shujaieh area east of Gaza City, where thousands fled last Sunday and Monday, returned to find homes, businesses and mosques reduced to piles of debris. -
Structures in the area that were not destroyed were damaged by artillery fire that punctured walls and left half-metre-deep divots in streets. -
A Palestinian man rescues his horse from the rubble of homes destroyed by Israeli military forces in the northern district of Beit Hanoun in the Gaza Strip. -
Palestinian medics at the scene where an ambulance driver and medic were killed by the Israeli army yesterday as they entered today to the northern district of Beit Hanoun. -
A Palestinian stands in a damaged window against the massive destruction of a homes reduced to rubble. -
Apart from those killed, more than 6,000 Palestinians have been injured over the past 19 days. -
Palestinian women mourn the loss of their homes in the northern district of Beit Hanoun in the Gaza Strip.
In pictures: heartache as Gazans return to their flattened homes
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