Palestinian children are comforted as they are rushed away from the scene of Israeli shelling in Beit Lahiya, northern Gaza Strip, Saturday, Jan. 10, 2009.
A Palestinian woman reacts over relatives moments after they were killed in an Israeli missile strike outside their home in Beit Lahiya, northern Gaza Strip,Thursday, Jan. 8, 2009.
A Palestinian man reacts as he carries a girl who according to Palestinian medical sources was killed in an Israeli strike, into Shifa hospital in Gaza City, Monday, Jan. 5, 2009.
In the final days of 2008 and into 2009, Israel unleashed unprecedented firepower in its campaign to halt years of militant rocket attacks on Israeli communities - inflicting even more pain on Gazas long suffering 1.5 million people. No country,…
Juana Bautista Xiua mourns the dead of her two sons, Gilberto and Emilson Tunche, who were killed while working as driver and assistant in a public bus in Guatemala City, Friday, Jan. 16, 2009.
Relatives carry the coffin of Ingrid Marisol Canis, 16, right, who was 8 months pregnant, and a small coffin of her baby who died later at the hospital, during a funeral procession in Guatemala City, Friday, Feb. 20, 2009.