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Members of the al Sultan family grieve outside their destroyed home in the Tawam section of Gaza City, January 19, 2009, one of the neighborhoods hardest hit by Israel's 22-day onslaught in Gaza. (Shashank Bengali/MCT)
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As Israeli tanks took up positions in the Tawam section of Gaza City, the damage to homes like Khadija Saqer's was near-complete. (Shashank Bengali/MCT)
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Children pick through the burnt wreckage of a car in the Tal a-Hawa section of Gaza City, Monday, January 19, 2009. Israeli tanks rolled through the neighborhood last week and torched several vehicles, residents said. (Shashank Bengali/MCT)
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Maha al Sultan, right, surveys the damage to her family's home in the Tawam section of Gaza City, Monday, January 19, 2009. Family members said that the building housed six families and 55 people, all of whom survived by fleeing to a relative's house when Israeli tanks moved in. (Shashank Bengali/MCT)
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Families return to the Tawam section of Gaza City on Monday, January 19, 2009, to find their neighborhood ravaged by the war, with gaping holes in the sides of buildings and entire homes reduced to rubble. (Shashank Bengali/MCT)
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Children boil water for tea amid the wreckage of their home in the Tawam section of Gaza City, Monday, January 19, 2009. The neighborhood was one of the hardest hit by the Israeli war on Hamas. (Shashank Bengali/MCT)
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A child collects shell casings from near the wreckage of his home in the Tawam section of Gaza City, Monday, January 19, 2009. Residents said that Palestinian militants took up positions in some of the houses, which were bombarded by Israeli forces. (Shashank Bengali/MCT)
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Khadija Saqer, 55, picks through stones on January 19, 2009, to salvage a bag of chickpeas that was destroyed when Israeli soldiers came through her home in the Tawam section of Gaza City. Saqer returned to her three-story home following Sunday's cease-fire to find it - and most of her neighborhood - completely destroyed. (Shashank Bengali/MCT)
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Mariam, a 20-day-old baby who died Monday, is laid to rest hours later in a cemetery in Beit Lahiya, Gaza Strip, January 19, 2009. Her father said the newborn fell ill from smoke inhalation as the family fled their home due to Israel-Hamas clashes, and she never recovered. (Shashank Bengali/MCT)
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