Israel Targets Hamas

Palestinians walk on the street next to a destroyed building used by the security forces of Hamas that was leveled in an Israeli missile strike in Gaza City, Wednesday, Dec. 31, 2008. Israel rejected mounting international pressure to suspend its devastating air offensive against Palestinian militants whose rocket barrages are striking ominously close to the Israeli heartland.

A Palestinian man places a green Islamic flag of the militant group Hamas on the rubble of a destroyed mosque after an Israeli air strike in Gaza City, Wednesday, Dec. 31, 2008. Israel rejected overtures to suspend its offensive against Palestinian militants, sending warplanes to demolish smuggling tunnels that are the lifeline of Gaza's Islamic Hamas rulers. Troops and tanks also massed along the Gaza border.

An Israeli soldier walks past a tank at a staging area on the Israel-Gaza border Wednesday, Dec. 31, 2008.

Smoke rises from an explosion at a house hit by an Israeli missile in the Rafah refugee camp, southern Gaza Strip, Wednesday, Dec. 31, 2008.

Israeli soldiers sit atop a tank at a staging area near Israel's border with the Gaza Strip, in southern Israel, Tuesday, Dec. 30, 2008.

A Palestinian woman holds up a banner reading "Silence = Partnership" in Arabic and English and another holds up her hand with red paint, signifying blood, as others protest against Israel's military operation in Gaza, outside the U.S. consulate in East Jerusalem, Tuesday, Dec. 30, 2008.

Palestinian mourners carry the body of 4-year-old Haya Hamdan, killed with her sister, Lama, 12, in background, in an Israeli missile strike, during her funeral in town of Beit Hanoun, northern Gaza Strip, Tuesday, Dec. 30, 2008.

Israeli soldiers sit atop a tank at a staging area near Israel's border with the Gaza Strip, in southern Israel, Tuesday, Dec. 30, 2008. Israeli aircraft kept up a relentless string of assaults on Hamas-ruled Gaza on Tuesday, smashing a government complex, security installations and the home of a top militant commander.

Palestinian youths burn a tire during a protest following a demonstration against Israel's military operation in Gaza, at the Kalandia checkpoint between the West Bank city of Ramallah and Jerusalem, Tuesday, Dec. 30, 2008.

Smoke rises from an Israeli missile strike on a target in Gaza City, Tuesday, Dec. 30, 2008.

Palestinians walk next to destroyed Hamas government buildings following an Israeli air strike in Gaza City, Tuesday, Dec. 30, 2008. Israeli aircraft kept up a relentless string of assaults on Hamas-ruled Gaza on Tuesday, smashing a government complex, security installations.

Palestinian rescue workers walk on the rubble of a destroyed Hamas government building following an Israeli air strike in Gaza City, Tuesday, Dec. 30, 2008.

Palestinians are seen next to a destroyed Hamas government building, following an Israeli air strike, in Gaza City, Tuesday, Dec. 30, 2008.

Palestinians medics, not seen, treat an injured boy, following an Israeli air strike, in the Shifa hospital in Gaza City, early Tuesday, Dec. 30, 2008.