Israel, Palestinians in deadly clashes

A Palestinian rolls a burning barrel during clashes with Israeli soldiers in the West Bank town of Nablus, on November 18, 2012, as Palestinian across the territories protest against Israel's military action on the Gaza Strip. Israel's Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman said that Israel would not negotiate a truce with Gaza Strip's Hamas rulers as long as rocket fire continues from the Palestinian enclave.

Palestinian civil defense staff pull a survivor out from under the rubble of a destroyed house following an Israeli air strike on Gaza City on November 18, 2012. Fresh Israeli air strikes hit a Gaza City media center and homes in northern Gaza in the early morning, as the death toll mounted, despite suggestions from Egypt's President Mohamed Morsi that there could be a "ceasefire soon."

Palestinians inspect their damaged house following Israeli air strikes on the village of Beit Lahia in the northern Gaza Strip on November 18, 2012. Israeli war planes hit a Gaza City media center and homes in northern Gaza in the early morning, as the death toll mounted, despite suggestions from Egypt's President Mohamed Morsi that there could be a "ceasefire soon."

Israeli soldiers fire tear gas towards stone throwers demonstrating against the Israeli military offensive on the Gaza Strip at the Qalandia checkpoint, in the Israeli occupied West Bank, on November 18, 2012.

A Hamas policeman looks at an unexploded missile fired by an Israeli aircraft in Gaza City, November 17, 2012.

Smoke rises after an Israeli air strike on an office of Hamas television channel Al-Aqsa in Gaza City on November 18, 2012. An Israeli air strike hit a Gaza City media building on November 18, injuring at least six journalists, as a separate raid in northern Gaza killed two people, Palestinian medical sources said. The Israeli military said the strikes targeted Hamas communications equipment on the buildings' rooftops and urged journalists to stay away from Hamas facilities. Reporters Without Borders condemned the attacks.

Smoke billows and debris flies from the explosion at the local Al-Aqsa TV station in Gaza City, Sunday, Nov. 18, 2012. Israeli aircraft fired missiles at two media centers in the Gaza Strip on Sunday, the Israeli military said.

Smoke rises after an Israeli air strike in Gaza City, November 17, 2012. Israeli aircraft pounded Hamas government buildings in Gaza, including the building housing the prime minister's office, after Israel's Cabinet authorized the mobilization of up to 75,000 reservists, preparing for a possible ground invasion.

A Palestinian man carries the body of his son Tamer Abu Sefan, three-and-a-half years old, during a funeral in the village of Beit Lahia, in the northern Gaza Strip on November 18, 2012. A ground invasion of the Gaza Strip would lose Israel much international sympathy and support, British Foreign Secretary William Hague warned.

A Palestinian rescue worker carries the body of a child from the al-Dallu family into the hospital in Gaza City on November 18, 2012, after seven members of the al-Dallu family, including four children, were among nine people killed when an Israeli missile struck a family home in Gaza City, the health ministry said.

Palestinian mourners pray over the body of 18-month-old Eyad Abu Khosa, killed in the latest Israeli airstrikes, during his funeral in the Bureij refugee camp in central Gaza Strip on November 18, 2012. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that Israel is ready to "significantly expand" its operation against militants in the Hamas-run Gaza Strip as it entered its fifth day.

Palestinians children walk past destroyed buildings following Israeli air strikes on the southern Gaza Strip town of Rafah on November 18, 2012. Israeli war planes hit a Gaza City media center and homes in northern Gaza in the early morning, as the death toll mounted, despite suggestions from Egypt's President Mohamed Morsi that there could be a "ceasefire soon."

Palestinian mourners carry the bodies of Tahrer Salman and Mohammed Salman in Beit Lahia in north Gaza, November 17, 2012. According to relatives, the two members of the Salman family were killed after an Israeli airstrike hit the yard of their house.

A Palestinian youth throws a rock at Israeli soldiers during clashes in the West Bank town of Nablus, on November 18, 2012, as Palestinian across the territories protest against Israel's military action on the Gaza Strip.

Jihad Masharawi weeps while he holds the body of his 11-month old son Ahmad, at Shifa hospital following an Israeli air strike on their family house, in Gaza City, Nov. 14, 2012.

Palestinian medical workers wheel a wounded Palestinian journalist on a stretcher to Al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City on November 18, 2012. An Israeli air strike hit a Gaza City media building on November 18, injuring at least six journalists, as a separate raid in northern Gaza killed two people, Palestinian medical sources said.

Israelis run for cover during a rocket attack on November 18, 2012 in Tel Aviv, Israel.

A Palestinian readies to throw back a tear gas canister fired by the Israeli military during a protest against Israel's operations in Gaza the Qalandia checkpoint, in the West Bank, on November 18, 2012.

Palestinian firefighters work at the scene of an Israeli air strike on a building in the Gaza Strip, November 17, 2012.

An Israeli missile is launched from the Iron Dome defence missile system, designed to intercept and destroy incoming short-range rockets and artillery shells, in the southern Israeli city of Ashdod in response to a rocket launched from the nearby Palestinian Gaza Strip on November 18, 2012. Sirens sounded across Tel Aviv for a fourth straight day, AFP correspondents said, as Israeli police confirmed two rockets had been intercepted over the city by the Iron Dome defence system.

Palestinians are seen through the shattered windshield of a car as they inspect the site of an Israeli airstrike on the Shati refugee camp in Gaza City on November 18, 2012. Two people were killed, one of them a child, when an Israeli missile hit a beachfront refugee camp in Gaza City.

Palestinian firefighters and rescue personnel work at a blast site following an Israeli air raid in Gaza City on November 17, 2012. Israeli air strikes hit the cabinet headquarters of Gaza's Hamas government, the group said early on November 17, with eyewitnesses reporting extensive damage to the building.

Israeli soldiers with armored vehicles gather in a staging ground near the border with Gaza Strip, southern Israel, Friday, Nov. 16, 2012. Fierce clashes between Israeli forces and Gaza militants are continuing for the third day.

Israeli Defense Forces strike Hamas drone

Israeli Defense Forces have released a video showing a strike on a Hamas drone. An IDF spokesman, speaking on Israeli TV, said that for the past few months Israel was monitoring a Hamas attempt to build a drone fleet, and that program has now been knocked out.

People look at the wreckage of the car of Ahmed Jabari, head of the Hamas military wing, in Gaza City after an Israeli airstrike, Nov. 14, 2012.

Palestinians extinguish fire from the car of Ahmaed Jaabari, head of the military wing of the Hamas movement, the Ezzedin Qassam Brigades, after it was hit by an Israeli air strike in Gaza City, Nov. 14, 2012.

People look at the wreckage of the car of Ahmed Jabari, head of the Hamas military wing, in Gaza City after an Israeli airstrike, Nov. 14, 2012.

Palestinians carry the body of Ahmad Jabari at his funeral in Gaza — Getty

Palestinians carry the body of Ahmad Jabari, head of the military wing of the Hamas movement, the Ezzedin Qassam Brigades, during his funeral in Gaza City, Nov. 15, 2012.

A rocket launched by Palestinian militants towards Israel from the northern Gaza Strip, seen from southern Israel, Nov. 15, 2012.

Israeli security personnel take cover in Kiryat Malachi, southern Israel, Nov. 15, 2012.

Israelis prepare to spend the night in a shelter in the southern Israeli town of Netivot, which neighbors the Gaza Strip, after dozens of rockets fire from Gaza hit the area, Nov. 14, 2012.

An Israeli soldier throws a blood-stained table from an apartment building hit by a rocket fired from the Gaza Strip, where three people were killed in Kiryat Malachi, southern Israel, Nov. 15, 2012.

An Israeli soldier throws a blood-stained table from an apartment building hit by a rocket fired from the Gaza Strip, killing three people in Kiryat Malachi, southern Israel, Nov. 15, 2012.

A Palestinian boy pushes a bicycle through rubble in an area targeted by an Israeli air strike in Gaza City in the early hours of Nov. 15, 2012.

A Palestinian man sits amid rubble in his bombed house following an Israeli air strike on Gaza City, Nov. 15, 2012.

A picture taken from the southern Israeli town of Sderot shows smoke billowing from a spot targeted by an Israeli air strike inside the Gaza strip, Nov. 15, 2012.

A Palestinian demonstrator runs through a cloud of tear gas during clashes against Israel's operations in Gaza Strip, outside Ofer, an Israeli military prison near the West Bank city of Ramallah, Nov. 15, 2012.

Plumes of smoke rise over Gaza during an Israeli air strike, as seen from Sderot on Nov. 15, 2012, in Israel.

A plume of smoke rises over Gaza during an Israeli air strike, as seen from Sderot on Nov. 15, 2012, in Israel.

Palestinians walk by a damaged building hit in an Israeli strike, in Gaza City, Nov. 15, 2012.

The parents of 11 month-old Palestinian baby Ahmed Masharawi, killed in an Israeli strike, hold his body during his funeral in Gaza City, Nov. 15, 2012.

A Palestinian boy holds a window pane taken from a damaged house hit in an Israeli strike, in Gaza City, Nov. 15, 2012.

Zaka volunteers clean blood stains from an apartment in a building that was hit by a rocket fired from the Gaza Strip, where three people were killed in Kiryat Malachi, southern Israel, Nov. 15, 2012.

Smoke rises following an Israeli attack on Gaza City, Nov. 15, 2012.

A Zaka volunteer cleans blood stains from an apartment in a building that was hit by a rocket fired from the Gaza Strip, where three people were killed in Kiryat Malachi, southern Israel, Nov. 15, 2012.

An Israeli soldier lies on the ground as missiles are fired from an Iron Dome anti-missile station on Nov. 15, 2012, near the city of Beer Sheva, Israel.

A member of the Abdel Aal family is rescued after his family house collapsed during an Israeli forces strike in the Tufah neighbourhood, Gaza City, Nov. 18, 2012.

An Israeli Zaka emergency services volunteer works in an apartment which was hit by a rocket fired by Palestinian militants, killing three people on Nov. 15, 2012, in Kiryat Malachi, Israel.

An Israeli man looks out from an apartment building which was hit by a rocket launched presumably from the Gaza Strip hit an apartment building, claiming three lives on Nov. 15, 2012, in Kiryat Malachi, Israel.

Rescue workers evacuate one of three dead bodies after a rocket launched from Gaza hit an apartment building on Nov. 15, 2012, in Kiryat Malachi, Israel.

Israelis take cover in a large concrete pipe used as a bomb shelter after a rocket was launched from the Gaza Strip on Nov. 15, 2012, in Kiryat Malachi, Israel.

Smoke rises following an Israeli attack on Gaza City, Nov. 15, 2012.

Smoke trails are seen after missiles were fired by Palestinian militants from Gaza City towards southern Israel, Nov. 15, 2012.

Israeli soldiers ride on top of an armored personal carrier close to the Israel Gaza Border, southern Israel, Nov. 15, 2012.

Palestinians, one holding a copy of The Quran, the Muslim holy book, protest against the Israeli military operations in Gaza strip, in the West Bank Al-Fareah refugee camp, Nov. 15, 2012.

An Israeli soldier holds up a Torah scroll as others reach to touch it in a staging area near the Israel Gaza Strip Border, southern Israel, Nov. 19, 2012.

A woman photographs Israeli soldiers on top an armored personal carrier close to the Israel Gaza Border, southern Israel, Nov. 15, 2012.

Palestinian women react during the funeral of Hisham Al Galban, a Hamas militant killed in an Israeli attack, in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, Nov. 15, 2012.

A Palestinian fires his weapon during the funeral of Hamas' top military commander Ahmed Jabari, killed in an Israeli strike on Wednesday, in Gaza City, Nov. 15, 2012.

An Israeli solider rides on top an armored personal carrier close to the Israel Gaza Border, southern Israel, Nov. 15, 2012.

A Palestinian Hamas policeman, left, and a firefighter try to extinguish a fire after an Israeli airstrike in Shati, Gaza city, Nov. 15, 2012.

Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks to the media in Tel Aviv, Israel, Nov. 15, 2012. Netanyahu told reporters that Israel has "made it clear" it won't tolerate continued rocket fire on its civilians.

Palestinian firefighters extinguish fire from the car of Ahmaed Jaabari, head of the military wing of the Hamas movement, the Ezzedin Qassam Brigades, after it was hit by an Israeli air strike in Gaza City on Nov. 14, 2012.

Palestinians extinguish fire from the car of Ahmaed Jaabari, head of the military wing of the Hamas movement, the Ezzedin Qassam Brigades, after it was hit by an Israeli air strike in Gaza City on Nov. 14, 2012.

A general view shows a crater at a sport targeted by an Israeli air strike in Gaza City in the early hours of Nov. 15, 2012.

A picture taken from the southern Israeli Gaza border shows smoke billowing from a spot targeted by an Israeli air strike inside the Gaza strip on Nov. 16, 2012.

A picture taken from the southern Israeli Gaza border shows smoke billowing from spots targeted by Israeli air strike inside the Gaza strip on Nov. 16, 2012.

Palestinian demonstrators protect their eyes from tear gas during clashes against Israel's operations in Gaza Strip, outside Ofer, an Israeli military prison near the West Bank city of Ramallah, Nov. 17, 2012.

A Palestinian inspects damaged cars following an Israeli air strike in Rafah southern Gaza Strip, Nov. 19, 2012.

Israeli soldiers lay on the ground as siren warning for incoming rockets sounds as an Iron Dome missile launched near the city of Ashdod, Israel, to intercept a rocket fired by Palestinians militants from Gaza Strip, Nov. 18, 2012.

Two Israeli reserve soldiers check their mobile phones near the Israel Gaza Border in southern Israel, Nov. 21, 2012.

An Israeli soldier prays as he sits at an armored personnel carrier at a staging area near the Israel Gaza Strip Border, southern Israel, Nov. 21, 2012.

An Israeli soldier prays at a staging area near the Israel Gaza Strip Border, southern Israel, Nov. 20, 2012.