Sunday was the deadliest day yet in the recent battles in the Gaza Strip, capping a bloody weekend where more than a hundred Palestinians were killed, as well as 18 Israeli soldiers, following an Israeli advance into Gaza. Israel said on Sunday it had expanded its ground offensive, and Hamas militants kept up rocket fire into the Jewish state with no sign of a diplomatic breakthrough to end the worst fighting between Israel and Hamas in two years. The New York Times reports the death toll reaching at least 425 since Israel's air offensive began on July 8. gathered here are photographs of the conflict from just the past few days. Warning: Many of these photographs are graphic in nature.
Bloody Weekend in Gaza
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A Palestinian woman wearing clothes stained with the blood of other relatives, who medics said were wounded in Israeli shelling, cries in a hospital in Gaza City on July 20, 2014. #
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Israeli tanks maneuver outside the northern Gaza Strip on July 18, 2014. Israel intensified its land offensive in Gaza with artillery, tanks and gunboats on Friday and warned it could "significantly widen" an operation Palestinian officials said was killing ever greater numbers of civilians. #
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Smoke and the flare of an explosion rise after an Israeli missile hit the Shijaiyah neighborhood in Gaza City on July 20, 2014. The neighborhood came under heavy tank fire Sunday as Israel widened its ground offensive against Hamas, causing hundreds of panicked residents to flee. #
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Journalists and residents of the southern Israeli city of Sderot take cover on July 20, 2014 as they are on a hill overlooking the Gaza Strip where people watch the fighting between the Israeli army and Palestinian militants. #
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The body of a child lies in the morgue of the al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City on July 20, 2014. At least 40 people were killed and nearly 400 wounded in Israeli shelling of the Shejaiya district overnight, medics said. #
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Palestinians flee their homes in Gaza's eastern Shejaiya district on July 20, 2014, after heavy Israeli shelling that left casualties lying in the streets, an AFP correspondent reported. Ambulances were unable to reach much of the area along the border because of heavy fire, and emergency services told AFP there were reports of dead and wounded trapped by the bombardment. #
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Israeli soldiers from the Golani Infantry Brigade prepare their equipment and weapons near their Armored Personnel Carrier at an army deployment near the Israeli-Gaza border on July 19, 2014. #
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Israelis, mostly residents of the southern Israeli city of Sderot, one holding a national flag, sit on a hill overlooking the Gaza Strip, on July 20, 2014, to watch the fighting between the Israeli army and Palestinian militants. #
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Palestinian relatives of Roshdi Naser, mourn during his funeral in the Khan Younis refugee camp in the southern Gaza Strip, Saturday, July 19, 2014. Naser and eight others were killed in an early morning Israeli missile strike, officials said. #
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A Palestinian man holds his daughters, Shada and Lama al-Ejla, who were injured in an Israeli tank attack, as he leaves al-Shifa hospital on July 18, 2014 in Gaza City. #
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Palestinian Mahmoud Hamad, top, along with other members of the immediate and the extended family, inspects the damage at family house, destroyed by an Israeli strike, in Beit Lahiya on July 19, 2014. #
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Israeli soldiers carry the flag-draped coffin of their comrade Amotz Greenberg during his funeral in the central town of Hod Hasharon on July 20, 2014. Eighteen Israeli soldiers, including Greenberg, and two Israeli civilians have been killed since a near two-week-old offensive was launched in response, Israel says, to mounting cross-border rocket attacks by Hamas militants. #
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Soldiers and relatives mourn at the grave of Israeli Sergeant Banaya Rubel during his funeral on July 20, 2014 in Holon, Israel. Sergeant Rubel was killed along with another IDF soldier on the twelfth day of operation 'Protective Edge,' when Hamas militants infiltrated Israel from a tunnel dug from Gaza and engaged Israeli soldiers. #
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The parents of 32-year-old Israeli army captain Tzafrir Bar-Or, a commander of the Golani Brigade killed the previous day fighting a group of Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip, mourn over his coffin during his funeral in the central town of Holon, near Tel Aviv, on July 21, 2014. #
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Israeli soldiers of the 155mm artillery canons unit fire towards the Gaza Strip from their position near Israel's border with the coastal Palestinian enclave, on July 19, 2014. #
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A Palestinian searches for belongings among the rubble of a house which police said was destroyed in an Israeli air strike in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip on July 20, 2014. #
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Click to view imageA Palestinian family lies dead where they had sheltered near a stairwell during the Israeli military offensive on the Shejaiya neighborhood between Gaza City and the Israeli border on July 20, 2014. #
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Netream Netzleam holds the body of her daughter Razel, 1, who medics said died on Friday from injuries sustained in an Israeli air strike on Thursday afternoon, at her funeral in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip on July 18, 2014. #
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