People run for cover following the resumption of Israeli bombardment  in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip on December 1 as fighting broke out shortly after the expiration of a seven-day truce between Israel and Hamas. —AFP
People run for cover following the resumption of Israeli bombardment in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip on December 1 as fighting broke out shortly after the expiration of a seven-day truce between Israel and Hamas. —AFP

Palestinians inspect the destruction around residential buildings following Israeli air strikes in the Rafah refugee camp in the southern Gaza Strip on December 1, as fighting resumed shortly after the expiration of a seven-day truce between Israel and Hamas. — AFP
Palestinians inspect the destruction around residential buildings following Israeli air strikes in the Rafah refugee camp in the southern Gaza Strip on December 1, as fighting resumed shortly after the expiration of a seven-day truce between Israel and Hamas. — AFP

A Palestinian woman reacts as people check the rubble of a building destroyed in an Israeli air strikes on the Rafah refugee camp in the southern Gaza Strip on December 1, after the expiration of a seven-day truce between Israel and Hamas. — AFP
A Palestinian woman reacts as people check the rubble of a building destroyed in an Israeli air strikes on the Rafah refugee camp in the southern Gaza Strip on December 1, after the expiration of a seven-day truce between Israel and Hamas. — AFP

Palestinians walk toward safer areas following the resumption of Israeli strikes on Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip on December 1, after the expiration of a seven-day truce between Israel and Hamas. — AFP
Palestinians walk toward safer areas following the resumption of Israeli strikes on Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip on December 1, after the expiration of a seven-day truce between Israel and Hamas. — AFP

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