relative sits in a car as he carries the body of two-and-a-half-year-old Palestinian girl Raghad Massoud, whom medics said was killed in an Israeli air strike, before her burial in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip August 4, 2014. Israel said it would unilaterally hold fire in most of the Gaza Strip on Monday to facilitate the entry of humanitarian aid and allow some of the hundreds of thousands of Palestinians displaced by an almost four-week-old war to go home. Gaza officials say 1,790 Palestinians, most of them civilians, have been killed and more than a quarter of the impoverished enclave's 1.8 million residents displaced. As many as 3,000 Palestinian homes have been destroyed or damaged. Israel has lost 64 soldiers in combat and three civilians to Palestinian cross-border shelling that has emptied many of its southern villages. Israel launched its offensive on July 8 following a surge in Hamas rocket salvoes. Photo by Ashraf Amra
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