More than 1,800 Palestinians have been killed and an estimated 485,000 have fled their homes since Israel launched Operation Protective Edge in Gaza on 8 July. Some 66 Israelis - all but two of them soldiers - have also died in the operation to combat thousands of rocket strikes on Israel by the militant Islamist group Hamas.
BBC: Mapping the human cost in Gaza
Palestinian child screams in pain at the Kamal Adwan hospital in Beit Lahia in the northern Gaza Strip on July 22, 2014 after she was hit by shrapnel during an Israeli military strike near her family house.
