Palestinian relatives mourn over the body of a boy killed by an Israeli air strike at a morgue in al-Shifa hospital, in Gaza City on July 18, 2014. Israel stepped up its land offensive in Gaza with artillery, tanks and gunboats and declared it could 'significantly widen' an operation Palestinian officials said was killing ever greater numbers of civilians. Israeli gunboats lit up the sky with their fire before dawn while helicopters fired into the coastal enclave. Hamas fired mortar rounds at the invading troops and rockets across the border at the southern Israeli towns of Ashdod and Ashkelon. Among today's fatalities were three teenage brothers, who medics said were shelled by an Israeli tank inside their house, at a residential building in Beit Lahiya. Photo by Mohammed Asad
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