Israeli troops continue Gaza push

6 January: Smoke rises over Gaza City Photograph: Suhaib Salem/Reuters

6 January: A girl's hand appears amid the rubble of her destroyed home after an Israeli missile strike in al-Zaitun area in eastern Gaza City Photograph: Mohammed Saber/EPA

January 6: Israelis scramble a street after a rocket from Gaza hit Sderot Photograph: Anja Niedringhaus/AP

January 6: Orthodox Jews watch smoke rise above the northern Gaza Strip Photograph: Pavel Wolberg/EPA

6 January: Palestinian boys amid the rubble of a building in Rafah refugee camp Photograph: Eyad Baba/AP

6 January: An Israeli soldier cries at the funeral of a comrade at Mt Herzl military cemetery Photograph: Spencer Platt/Getty Images

6 January: Orthodox Jews dance with Israeli soldiers at the Gaza border Photograph: Menahem Kahana/AFP/Getty Images

6 January: A line of Israeli armoured personnel carriers roll down a dirt road near the border fence Photograph: Jim Hollander/EPA

6 January: Palestinian boys in the rubble of a three-storey house that belonged to a Hamas member in eastern Gaza City Photograph: Mohammed Abed/AFP/Getty Images

5 January: Smoke billows from Gaza City Photograph: Mahmud Hams/AFP/Getty Images

5 January: An Israeli soldier gestures atop a mobile artillery unit Photograph: Gil Cohen Magen/Reuters

5 January: A wounded Palestinian girl arrives at al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City Photograph: Abid Katib/Getty Images

5 January: An Israeli tank patrols the border Photograph: Jack Guez/AFP/Getty Images

5 January: A Palestinian woman at a hospital in Gaza Photograph: Suhaib Salem/Reuters

5 January: A relative of a Palestinian victim cries in the morgue at the al-Shifa hospital Photograph: Abid Katib/Getty Images

5 January: An Israeli soldier wounded in the Gaza Strip arrives at Soroka hospital in the southern Israeli town of Beersheba Photograph: Diego Mittelberg/AP

5 January: Magdi al-Samuli mourns over the bodies of his children, killed by an Israeli tank shell Photograph: Mahmud Hams/AFP

5 January: Palestinians wheel an injured girl to hospital Photograph: Mohammed Saber/EPA

4 January: An Israeli soldier fires tear gas during clashes with Palestinians Photograph: Abed Al Hafiz Hashlamoun/EPA

4 January: Israeli soldiers in the first ground action of Israel's invasion Photograph: Baz Ratner/Reuters

4 January: Palestinians flee the Jabaliya refugee camp in the northern Gaza Strip as battles rage between Israeli troops and Hamas fighters Photograph: Mohammed Abed/AFP/Getty Images

4 January: Mourners pray near the bodies of Palestinians killed in an air strike Photograph: Reuters

4 January: An Apache helicopter fires a flare in northern Gaza Photograph: Jack Guez/AFP/Getty Images

4 January: A wounded Palestinian girl is carried into a Gaza hospital Photograph: Abid Katib/Getty Images

4 January: A bomb explodes over the northern Gaza Strip Photograph: Yannis Behrakis/Reuters

4 January: Palestinian doctors carry a wounded boy into a Gaza City hospital Photograph: Yasser Saymeh/AFP/Getty Images

4 January: The flag-draped coffin of Israeli Staff Sergeant Dvir Emanueloff Photograph: Lefteris Pitarakis/AP

4 January: Israeli children play inside a bomb shelter in the southern town of Sderot Photograph: Tara Todras-Whitehill/AP

4 January: An injured child is carried into al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City Photograph: Khalil Hamra/AP

4 January: An injured Palestinian is carried into a hospital in Gaza Photograph: Mohammed Salem/Reuters

4 January: Israeli artillery fire in the Gaza Strip Photograph: Olivier Fitoussi/EPA

4 January: Smoke trails rise after Hamas fighters launched rockets towards southern Israel from Beit Hanoun, in the northern Gaza Strip Photograph: Patrick Baz/AFP/Getty Images

4 January: Israeli infantry soldiers enter Gaza Photograph: Uriel Sinai/Getty