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Asmaa al-Ghoul is a columnist for Al-Monitor's Palestine Pulse and a journalist from the Rafah refugee camp based in Gaza.
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![Relatives of Palestinian man Hussien Abu al-Naja, whom medics said was killed in an Israeli air strike, mourn during his funeral on the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Fitr in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip July 28, 2014. One of the most joyous days in the Muslim calendar, the holiday of Eid al-Fitr was marked on Monday by tears and sorrow in the Gaza Strip, left battered by three weeks of merciless fighting between Israel and Hamas Islamists. REUTERS/Ibraheem Abu Mustafa (GAZA - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNRES](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header/public/almpics/2014/07/RTR40DBW.jpg/RTR40DBW.jpg?h=f7822858&itok=lX3sV_Kb)
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![A Palestinian man stands next to a house which police said was targeted in an Israeli air strike in Gaza City July 17, 2014. Israeli shelling killed four Palestinian boys on a Gaza beach on Wednesday, an incident the military called tragic, and Israel and Hamas said they would cease attacks for five hours on Thursday for a humanitarian truce requested by the United Nations. Palestinian militants fired more than 130 rockets into Israel on the ninth day of a war in which Israeli attacks have killed 216 Palest](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header/public/almpics/2014/07/RTR3YZ5I.jpg/RTR3YZ5I.jpg?h=f7822858&itok=bXz2KRJ_)
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![Palestinian medics inspect the remains of a car, which police said was hit in an Israeli air strike, in Gaza City July 9, 2014. An Israeli aircraft targeted a civilian car in the center of Gaza City's busiest shopping street on Wednesday night and at least one person in the car, the driver, was killed, medics said.Video of the destroyed car showed it had large red stickers that read "TV". The killed driver, Hamed Shehab, 30, worked for the Gaza-based news website Media 24. A Media 24 journalist told Reuters](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header/public/almpics/2014/07/RTR3XWPE.jpg/RTR3XWPE.jpg?h=f7822858&itok=-6q3q4Kf)
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