
Photos: Operation Pillar of Cloud and violence in Israel, Gaza

A Palestinian searched for victims under the rubble of the destroyed house of a Hamas official after an Israeli air strike on a refugee camp in the northern Gaza Strip on Saturday.
EPA
| November 16, 2012

Israeli children waved their national flag as an army convoy passed on a road leading to the Israel-Gaza border near the southern Israeli town of Ofakim on Saturday.
Photo by Lior Mizrahi/Getty Images
| November 16, 2012

Israeli soldiers took position on Israel's border with the Gaza Strip on Saturday.
AFP/Getty Images
| November 16, 2012

An Israeli Iron Dome missile was launched near the city of Be'er Sheva, southern Israel, to intercept a rocket fired from Gaza Saturday.
Associated Press
| November 16, 2012

Smoke rose in Gaza City after Israeli airstrikes Friday. Officials in Gaza said 19 people, including five children and a pregnant teenager, were killed over Wednesday and Thursday.
Suhaib Salem/REUTERS
| November 16, 2012

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said he will visit Gaza, Jerusalem, Cairo, and Ramallah on a diplomatic mission.
YONHAP/EPA
| November 16, 2012

Palestinian firefighters tried to extinguish a fire after an Israeli airstrike on the building of Hamas's Ministry of Interior in Gaza City on Friday.
Mohammed Salem/REUTERS
| November 16, 2012

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Ehud Barak spoke in Netanyahu’s office. Barak authorized the call-up of 30,000 army reservists if needed.
Ariel Hermoni/Israeli Ministry of Defense via Getty Images
| November 16, 2012

Israelis took cover in a large concrete pipe after a rocket was launched from the Gaza Strip Thursday in Kiryat Malachi.
Uriel Sinai/Getty Images
| November 16, 2012

A Palestinian woman cried during her brother’s funeral Friday. Audi Naser, 10, was killed in an Israeli airstrike.
ALI ALI/EPA
| November 16, 2012

A rocket launched from Gaza as seen from the Israeli city of Sderot on Thursday. An Israeli official said 300 rockets were fired into southern Israel and at least 130 more had been intercepted by Israel’s Iron Dome antimissile defense system.
Uriel Sinai/Getty Images
| November 16, 2012

An Israeli Zaka emergency services volunteer worked in a Kiryat Malachi apartment where three Israelis died after being hit by a rocket fired by Palestinian militants Thursday.
Uriel Sinai/Getty Images
| November 16, 2012

The burning wreckage of the car where Ahmed Jabari, head of the Hamas military wing in Gaza City, was killed by an Israeli airstrike Wednesday drew a crowd of bystanders.
Adel Hana/Associated Press
| November 16, 2012