An Israeli rocket is fired into the northern Gaza Strip July 17, 2014. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday instructed the military to begin a ground offensive in Gaza (Photo:Reuters)
Smoke from flares rises in the sky in Gaza City, in the northern Gaza Strip, Thursday, July 17, 2014. Israel launched a large-scale ground offensive in the Gaza Strip Thursday(Photo AP)
Smoke is seen after an Israeli strike over the northern Gaza Strip, after a five-hour humanitarian truce, July 17, 2014.(Photo:Reuters)
An Israeli soldier gestures from an armoured personnel carrier (APC) after a five-hour humanitarian truce, near the border with the Gaza Strip July 17, 2014 (Photo:Reuters)
Palestinian girls collect their belongings of the al-Yazje family at a damaged apartment building which was hit by an overnight Israeli missile strike in Gaza City, Thursday, July 17, 2014.(AP Photo)
Hospital workers and mourners gather around the bodies of the three children, right, killed by an Israeli airstrike, and Yaseen Al Hamdy, 4, bottom left, who died from injuries sustained from a separate airstrike, at the hospital's morgue in Gaza City, Thursday, July 17, 2014.(AP Photo)
The mother (C) of two boys from the Shaibar family, whom medics said were killed along with a girl from the same extended family by an Israeli air strike after the end of a five-hour humanitarian ceasefire, grieves during their funeral outside a hospital morgue in Gaza City July 17, 2014(Photo:Reuters)
Israeli soldiers ride army jeeps near Sufa, outside the southern Gaza Strip July 17, 2014. Palestinians rushed to shops and banks on Thursday as a five-hour humanitarian truce agreed by Israel and Hamas came into force, hours after the Israeli military said it had fought off gunmen who infiltrated from Gaza.(Photo:Reuters)
An Israeli soldier sits atop an armoured personnel carrier (APC) as it drives after the end of a five-hour humanitarian truce, near the border with the Gaza Strip July 17, 2014 (Photo:Reuters)