A Palestinian family rush past a burning building in the Rafah refugee camp in southern Gaza Strip after it was hit by an Israeli missile strike.

Palestinian fire fighters try to extinguish a burning building in the Rafah refugee camp.

Relatives at the funeral of Palestinian police chief Tawfiq Jaber, who was killed in the Israeli air strike.

Palestinian prisoners flee over the rubble of Gaza's central security headquarters and prison, known as the Saraya, after it was bombed.

An injured Palestinian prisoner reaches for help after being trapped in the rubble of the prison.

An injured Palestinian prisoner is helped as he and others flee the prison.

Mahmoud Abbas, president of the Palestinian authority, said Hamas could have avoided the Israeli attacks on Gaza in a press conference in Cairo, after meeting with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak.

Supporters of Pakistani Islamist party Jamaat-e-Islami chant slogans against Israel in a rally in Karachi.

Ehud Olmert, Israeli prime minister, talks to Tzipi Livni, foreign minister, during a cabinet meeting on Saturday. Mr Olmert said Sunday Israel's military offensive against Gaza militants is "liable to take longer than we can foresee at this moment."

Monday, December 29

Palestinians look at a destroyed mosque after an Israeli air strike in Jabalya refugee camp in the northern Gaza Strip.

Monday, December 29

Sudanese protestors carry a portrait of the head of the Hamas government in Gaza, Ismail Haniya, during a demonstration outside the United Nations offices in Khartoum to denounce the deadly attacks on the Gaza Strip by Israeli jets and voicing support for Palestinians.

Monday, December 29

A Palestinian mourner carries the body of 4-year-old Dena Balosha, one of five members of the same family including three children and two teenagers who were killed in an Israeli missile strike, during their funeral in the Jebaliya refugee camp, in the northern Gaza Strip.

Monday, December 29

An Israeli Arab is evacuated by Israeli paramedics following a rocket attack by Gaza Strip militants on the southern Israeli city of Ashkelon

Monday, December 29

Israelis take cover during a rocket warning siren in the southern Israeli town of Ashkelon. Israel's air campaign against the Gaza Strip inched closer to the territory's Hamas rulers as the assault entered its third day.

Tuesday, December 30

Israeli soldiers guard the Israeli border with the northern Gaza Strip near the kibbutz of Nir Am. Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said that the bombardment of Hamas targets in Gaza so far was "the first of several stages" approved by the Jewish state's security cabinet.