“Quiet,” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said, was the goal of Israel’s military assault in Gaza over the weekend. But the past few days have provided a panorama of explosions and destruction, with reports of more than five hundred Palestinians, most of them civilians, and thirteen Israeli soldiers dead. (At the time of this posting, twenty-seven Israelis had died.) Here are scenes from the fighting in Gaza and its aftermath.
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