On the 20th day of the conflict, over 1,000 Gazans have been reported killed and many thousands wounded in the Israeli offensive. According to a Palestinian human rights organisation, close to two-thirds are civilians. UNICEF has stated that over 300 children are among those killed in the assault. 
An Israeli soldier prays near tanks as his unit prepares to enter the northern Gaza Strip January 14, 2009. Israeli troops edged closer to the heart of Gaza City on Wednesday morning and international organisations expressed growing concern about the plight of children trapped in the offensive.
An injured Palestinian man looks on as others inspect the damage at a building following Israeli military operations, in the Sheikh Radwan neighborhood in Gaza City, Wednesday, Jan.14, 2009. Israeli aircraft pounded militants' rocket-launching pads, weapons arsenals and dozens of arms smuggling tunnels near the Gaza-Egypt border, the military said Wednesday, as UN chief Ban Ki-moon headed to the region to lend his heft to diplomatic efforts to wrest an end to Israel's bruising, 19-day-old assault.
Palestinian medics wheel a wounded girl to the treatment room of Shifa hospital following Israeli military operations in Gaza City, Wednesday, Jan. 14, 2009. Israel showed no signs of slowing its bruising offensive against Gaza's Hamas rulers, striking some 60 targets on Wednesday. Israel launched the onslaught on Dec. 27, seeking to punish the Hamas militant group for years of rocket attacks on southern Israel.
An unidentified relative of Palestinian Hamas member Mohammed al-Kintani mourns during his funeral in Gaza City on January 14, 2009.
Backdropped by Gaza, Israeli soldiers stand on tanks as they prepare for combat missions in Gaza as they gather on the Israel-Gaza border during Israel's military offensive, Wednesday, Jan. 14, 2009. Israeli aircraft struck a Gaza City cemetery Wednesday, pulverizing newly buried bodies, and pounded militants' weapons positions and arms smuggling tunnels, witnesses and the military said.
A Palestinian boy, who fled his home with his family during Israel's offensive, looks at people as they receive food at a UN school in Jabalya in the northern Gaza Strip January 14, 2009.
Medics try to revive Palestinian 3 year-old Aysha Al-Najar, minutes before her death of her wounds during an earlier Israeli military strike, at the Kamal Adwan hospital of the northern Gaza Strip town of Beit Lahiya, Wednesday Jan. 14, 2009.
A group of Israeli Hassidim Jews dance and listen to loud music on top of a vehicle as they celebrate the “success” of Israeli army’s offensive in the Gaza Strip on January 14, 2009 at the Yad Mordechai intersection in southern Israel.
A Palestinian boy carries his belongings as he leaves his house during Israel's offensive in Khuzaa in the southern Gaza Strip January 14, 2009.
Palestinians react during a funeral of four men killed in Israeli military operations, at the mosque in Beit Lahiya northern Gaza Strip, Wednesday, Jan. 14, 2009.
Smoke rises following an explosion caused by Israeli military operations is seen through a window of the Associated Press office, riddled by a bullet, in Gaza city, Thursday, Jan. 15, 2009. 
Israeli soldiers take position during a protest held by Palestinians in the West Bank village of Bilin near Ramallah.
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