Israeli missile strikes on Gaza and the Palestinian response

27 December: Amid thousands of images of civilian casualties of the Israeli airstrikes in Gaza, the solemn stare of one child appears to have stood out more than any other. Newspapers and broadcasters across the world selected the image of a young girl looking into a camera lens outside the Shifa hospital hours after an Israeli air strike Photograph: Abid Katib/Getty Images

27 December: The bodies of Hamas policemen lie on the floor of their destroyed police compound following an Israeli air strike Photograph: Reuters

28 December: Hamas security guards inspect the scene in the streets of Gaza City after an Israeli missile attack Photograph: Mohammed Saber/EPA

28 December: Palestinian firefighters attempt to douse flames at the site of an Israeli air strike in Rafah Photograph: Reuters

28 December: A wounded Hamas policeman is helped by his colleagues following an Israeli air strike at the main Hamas security complex in Gaza Photograph: Suhaib Salem/Reuters

28 December: Palestinians gather in the crater left by an Israeli missile strike on a building used by Hamas in Gaza City Photograph: Khalil Hamra/AP

28 December: Palestinians inspect the body of a man following an Israeli air strike near the al-Shifa mosque in Gaza City Photograph: Mohammed Abed/AFP

28 December: Palestinian firefighters attempt to douse flames at the site of an Israeli air strike in Rafah Photograph: Getty

28 December: Smoke rises after an Israeli air strike on Gaza Photograph: Suhaib Salem/Reuters

28 December: Palestinians inspect the Hamas TV building, destroyed in an air strike Photograph: Suhaib Salem/Reuters

28 December: A Palestinian firefighter shouts in front of a burning building following an Israeli air strike in the Gaza Strip Photograph: Ibraheem Abu Mustafa/Reuters

28 December: Palestinians try to dig the remains of a Hamas security force officer from rubble following an Israeli missile strike on a building in Gaza City Photograph: Fadi Adwan/AP

28 December: A Palestinian family react as they rush past a burning building after an Israeli missile strike in the Rafah refugee camp in the southern Gaza Strip Photograph: Hatem Omar/AP

28 December: A Palestinian protester in the Shuafat refugee camp, on the outskirts of Jerusalem, throws stones at Israeli troops (not seen) during clashes at a demonstration against Israel's air strikes on Gaza Photograph: Dan Balilty/AP

28 December: Palestinians search for the bodies of Hamas members in the the rubble of the Hamas security compound after Israeli missile strikes in Gaza City Photograph: Mohammed Saber/EPA

28 December: A wounded Palestinian is stretchered in to a hospital in Rafah following Israeli air strikes on tunnels at the border between Gaza and Egypt Photograph: Said Khatib/AFP/Getty Images

28 December: An injured Palestinian prisoner is helped as he and others flee through the rubble of the central security headquarters and prison, known as the Saraya, after it was hit in an Israeli missile strike Photograph: Adel Hana/AP

28 December: A soldier puts camouflage colours on his face as Israeli army special forces are deployed at the Gaza-Israel border Photograph: Uriel Sinai/Getty Images

28 December: Lebanese policemen try to help a comrade injured during Palestinian demonstrations in front the Egyptian embassy in Beirut Photograph: Hussein Malla/AP

28 December: Palestinians pass the al-Shifa mosque after it was hit in a Israeli air force bombing raid on Gaza City Photograph: Fady Adwan/EPA

28 December: An Israeli woman hugs a boy at the scene of a rocket attack in the southern city of Ashkelon. Palestinian militants continued to fire rockets across the border, including one that police said landed in open territory about 30km (18 miles) inside southern Israel Photograph: Amir Cohen/Reuters

28 December: An Israeli child lies in her bed in a bomb shelter at the Ashkelon Barzilai hospital, southern Israel. The hospital has moved its most essential departments into an underground bomb shelter Photograph: Tsafrir Abayov/AP

29 December: Samera Baalusha carries her surviving child, Mohamad, while crying over the body of her daughter, Jawaher Baalusha, four, during her funeral. Jawaher and four of her sisters were killed during an Israeli air raid Photograph: Abid Katib/Getty Images

29 December: A wounded Israeli lies on the ground after a rocket attack in the southern city of Ashkelon Photograph: Reuters

29 December: Palestinian mourners carry the bodies of Muhammed Hamed, 18, and Arafat Khawaja, 20, from the village of Nillin, west of Ramallah, during their funeral in the West Bank town of Ramallah. Both were shot dead by Israeli soldiers during a protest against Israel's missile attacks on Gaza Photograph: Atef Safadi/EPA

30 December: A Palestinian boy in a damaged house after an Israeli air strike in Rafah Photograph: Ibraheem Abu Mustafa/Reuters

30 December: A Palestinian girl, who fled with her family from their house, looks out the window at a United Nations aid centre in a school in Rafah Photograph: Ibraheem Abu Mustafa/Reuters

30 December: A car buried under rubble at the site of the ministry buildings compound, destroyed in an Israeli air strike Photograph: Abid Katib/Getty Images

30 December: A Palestinian woman holds up a banner while another holds up her hand, stained with red paint to signify blood, during a protest against Israel's military operation in Gaza outside the US consulate in East Jerusalem Photograph: Dan Balilty/AP

30 December: An Israeli soldier prays in front of a tank at a staging area near Israel's border with the Gaza Strip Photograph: Sebastian Scheiner/AP

30 December: A destroyed building reported to have been used by Hamas members Photograph: Mohammed Saber/EPA

30 December: Palestinians carry the bodies of two sisters, four-year-old Lama and nine-year-old Haia Hamdan, during their funeral in the town of Beit Hanoun Photograph: Mohammed Saber/EPA

30 December: Palestinians bury the body of four-year-old Lama Hamdan at the Beit Hanoun cemetery in the northern Gaza Strip Photograph: Mohammed Salem/Reuters

30 December: An Israeli soldier searches a Palestinian boy detained during a protest in the West Bank city of Hebron Photograph: Nayef Hashlamoun/Reuters

30 December: An Israeli woman takes a picture of a window that was shattered after a rocket landed in the southern city of Ashkelon Photograph: Amir Cohen/Reuters

30 December: The father, brother and husband of Irit Shitrit, a mother of four, lean over her body during her funeral in Ashdod where she was killed by a Palestinian rocket Photograph: Uriel Sinai/Getty Images

30 December: Palestinian rockets leave a trail of smoke after being launched from northern Gaza towards an Israeli town Photograph: Abid Katib/Getty Images

31 December: Israelis sit in a bomb shelter in the southern city of Ashkelon Photograph: Amir Cohen/Reuters

31 December: The hole from a Palestinian rocket that hit a school in Beer Sheva, Israel Photograph: Uriel Sinai/Getty Images

31 December: A Palestinian boy lies in Gaza City's al-Shifa hospital intensive care unit after he was wounded and his two sisters killed in an Israeli air strike in Beit Hanoun Photograph: Mahmud Hams/AFP/Getty Images

31 December: An Israeli soldier stands on a Merkava tank at a military staging area along the border with Gaza Photograph: Jim Hollander/EPA

31 December: Palestinian youths celebrate the new year during a candlelit vigil in the West Bank city of Bethlehem to show their solidarity with the people of Gaza Photograph: Musa Al-shaer/AFP/Getty Images

1 January: Palestinians run as smoke billows following an Israeli air strike in the Jabalia refugee camp in the northern Gaza Strip Photograph: Mohammed Abed/AFP/Getty Images

1 January: Palestinians pass by an unexploded bomb near a destroyed Hamas government building after an Israeli air strike in Gaza Photograph: Suhaib Salem/Reuters

1 January: Palestinians look at buildings damaged after an Israeli air strike in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip Photograph: Ibraheem Abu Mustafa/Reuters

1 January: Palestinians inspect the different rooms of a building that was damaged by an Israeli air strike in Rafah Photograph: Said Khatib/AFP/Getty Images

1 January: Iranian hardline students attend a rally inside the former US embassy in Tehran to condemn the Israeli attacks on Gaza Photograph: Raheb Homavandi/Reuters

1 January: The body of 19-year-old Muhammed Khawaja from the West Bank village of Nillin before his burial in Ramallah today Photograph: EPA

1 January: An Israeli soldier sits beside a mortar launcher just outside the southern Gaza Strip Photograph: Amir Cohen/Reuters

1 January: An Israeli looks at damage in a house that was hit by a Palestinian rocket in Sderot, Israel Photograph: Uriel Sinai/Getty Images

1 January: Israeli families sit inside a bomb shelter in the southern city of Beer-Sheva, frequently hit by rockets launched from the Gaza Strip Photograph: Yehuda Raizner/AFP/Getty Images

1 January: Palestinians survey the scene of an Israeli air strike on the home of senior Hamas leader Nizar Rayan in Gaza. Rayan was killed today with his four wives and two of his children in an Israeli air strike Photograph: Mohammed Salem/Reuters

1 January: Members of the Palestinian civil defence services work on the rubble of the destroyed house of Hamas leader of Nizar Rayan Photograph: Mahmud Hams/AFP/Getty Images

1 January: A Palestinian firefighter works at the scene of an Israeli air strike Photograph: Suhaib Salem/Reuters

1 January: Palestinian firemen among the debris of the destroyed house of Hamas senior leader Nizar Rayan Photograph: Mohammed Saber/EPA