가자 지구의 늘어나는 사망자 : Death Toll in Gaza Climbs, Israel Calls up More Troops

More than three weeks have passed since Israel launched its current offensive against Gaza, after a series of cross-border kidnappings and killings. In that time, Reuters reports that more than 1,400 Palestinians have been killed, nearly 7,000 wounded, the majority of them civilians. In Israel, 56 soldiers and 3 civilians have also lost their lives, another 400 wounded. The New York Times reports that Israel has struck 3,577 targets, while 2,753 rockets have been launched from Gaza into Israel. Today, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, facing international alarm over a rising civilian death toll in Gaza, said he would not accept any ceasefire that stopped Israel completing the destruction of militants' infiltration tunnels. Today, Israel called up another 16,000 reservists, allowing it to potentially widen its Gaza operation. Gathered here are images of the conflict from the past 9 days. -- 7/31/2014

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Smoke and fire from the explosion of an Israeli strike rise over Gaza City on July 29, 2014. Israel escalated its military campaign against Hamas earlier this week, striking symbols of the group's control in Gaza and firing tank shells that shut down the strip's only power plant in the heaviest bombardment in the fighting so far. (AP Photo/Hatem Moussa)

A spherical shockwave surrounds the muzzle of an Israeli artillery piece as it fires a 155mm shell towards targets from their position near Israel's border with the Gaza Strip on July 30, 2014. (Jack Guez/AFP/Getty Images) 

Palestinians carry the dead body of a man following what witnesses said was an Israeli air strike on a van, in Gaza City on July 31, 2014. (Reuters/Mohammed Salem)

Light streaks and smoke trails are seen as rockets are launched from Gaza towards Israel on July 23, 2014. (Reuters/Amir Cohen)

An Israeli woman is taken by paramedics on a stretcher to the hospital after a rocket launched from the Gaza Strip hit an apartment in the coastal city of Ashkelon, Israel, on July 25, 2014. (AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov)

Fliers are dropped over Gaza City by the Israeli army urging residents to evacuate their homes on July 30, 2014. Israeli bombardments early on July 30 killed "dozens" of Palestinians in Gaza, including at least 16 at a UN school, medics said, on day 23 of the Israel-Hamas conflict. (Mohammed Abed/AFP/Getty Images)

One of several Israeli shells is captured mid-flight, just before it strikes a target in the northern Gaza Strip, viewed from the Israeli border with Gaza on July 26, 2014. (Reuters/Ronen Zvulun)

Injured Palestinians lay on the ground following an Israeli Strike in Shijaiyah neighborhood, eastern Gaza City, on July 30, 2014. (AP Photo/Adel Hana)

A mare and her foal walk through the rubble of destroyed buildings in the northern district of Beit Hanun in the Gaza Strip, during a humanitarian truce on July 26, 2014. The bodies of at least 35 Palestinians were recovered from rubble across Gaza during the truce. (Mohammed Abed/AFP/Getty Images) 

The trail of a missile launched by Israel's Iron Dome defense system, as it intercepts and destroys a rocket launched from Gaza into Israel, on July 25, 2014. (Jack Guez/AFP/Getty Images)

An Israeli armored personnel carrier rolls at an army deployment near border between Israel and the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip on July 25, 2014. (Gil Cohen Magen/AFP/Getty Images)

A boy looks on as the carcass of a donkey killed earlier in the day, when a strike hit a UN school in the Jabalia refugee camp in the northern Gaza Strip, is removed on July 30, 2014. (Marco Longari/AFP/Getty Images)

Palestinians gather around the rubble of a building where at least 20 members of the Al Najar extended family were killed by an Israeli strike in Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip, on July 26, 2014. (AP Photo/Eyad Baba)

Israeli army officers talk with journalists at the entrance of a tunnel said to be used by Palestinian militants for cross-border attacks before an army-organized tour at the Gaza border on July 25, 2014. (Reuters/Jack Guez) 

1360+: Gaza Death Toll Climbs as 'Apartheid' Israelis Murder Palestinians

An Israeli army officer gives explanations to journalists during an army-organized tour in a tunnel said to be used by Palestinian militants for cross-border attacks, on July 25, 2014. (Reuters/Jack Guez) 

Smoke and fire from the explosion of an Israeli strike rise over Gaza City on July 22, 2014. (AP Photo/Hatem Moussa)

Palestinians lay on the ground following an Israeli Strike in Shijaiyah neighborhood, eastern Gaza City, on July 30, 2014. Among those killed in this incident was photojournalist Rami Rayan, working with the Palestine Network for Press and Media (on the ground, center-left, blue shirt, black vest). A terrifying first-person video of this shelling can been viewed here. (AP Photo/Adel Hana) 

A displaced Palestinian girl who lost a relative in an Israeli airstrike at a U.N school cries at Beit Hanoun hospital in the northern Gaza Strip on July 24, 2014. (AP Photo/Adel Hana)

A bird flies near the media complex that houses the offices of Hamas-run Al Aqsa television and radio after it was targeted in an Israeli strike in central Gaza City on July 29, 2014. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)

Palestinians attend the evening prayers outside a destroyed mosque, after it was hit by an Israeli strike in Gaza City on July 29, 2014. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)

Israeli soldiers, family, and friends mourn over the grave of Sergeant Sagi Erez, an infantry soldier training to be a squad commander, during his funeral at the military cemetery in Haifa, northern Israel on July 29, 2014. Erez, 19, was killed Monday in combat after Gaza militants used a tunnel to sneak into Israel. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

An Israeli soldier speaks on his mobile phone as he sits on a tank outside the Gaza Strip on July 25, 2014. (Reuters/Nir Elias)

Israeli forces' flares light up the night sky of Gaza City on July 29, 2014. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)

An explosion during an Israeli strike in the northern Gaza Strip early in the morning of July 26, 2014, before a cease-fire briefly took effect. (Reuters/Ronen Zvulun)

Palestinian Ismail Radwan, 45, inspects the damage to his family apartment caused by a fallen minaret of the Al-Sousi mosque, that was destroyed in an Israel strike, at Shati refugee camp, in the northern Gaza Strip, on July 30, 2014. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis) 

Widespread destruction in the Shejaia neighborhood, which witnesses said was heavily hit by Israeli shelling and air strikes on July 26, 2014. (Reuters/Mohammed Salem) 

Palestinians try to dig a body out of the rubble of a destroyed house hit by an Israeli strike during a 12-hour cease-fire in Gaza City's Shijaiyah neighborhood on July 26, 2014. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra) 

An Israeli Apache helicopter fires flares above Israel near the border with the northern Gaza Strip on July 22, 2014. (Reuters/Nir Elias) 

An abandoned shoe sits beside drying blood at a United Nations-run school sheltering Palestinians displaced by an Israeli ground offensive, that police said was hit by an Israeli shell, in Beit Hanoun in the northern Gaza Strip, on July 24, 2014. At least 15 people were killed and many wounded when a shell struck the school. Chris Gunness, spokesman for the main U.N. agency in Gaza UNRWA, confirmed the strike and criticized Israel. The Israeli military said an investigation into the attack on the school showed that a single errant mortar shell landed in an empty courtyard, denying it was responsible for the deaths. (Reuters/Finbarr O'Reilly)

Mortar cases are piled at a military staging area near the border with the Gaza Strip on July 24, 2014. (Reuters/Nir Elias)

Two-year-old Palestinian girl Naama Abu al-Foul sleeps after undergoing treatment at Gaza City's Al-Shifa hospital following Israeli bombing next to her family's home in the battered city on July 23, 2014. (Mahmud Hams/AFP/Getty Images)

Israeli soldiers carry their comrade on a stretcher after he was wounded in a Palestinian mortar strike, as they evacuate him from the scene outside the central Gaza Strip on July 28, 2014. (Reuters/Ido Erez)

Israeli army reservists take cover as a siren sounds warning of incoming rockets near the southern city of Ashkelon on July 23, 2014. (Reuters/Amir Cohen) 

Palestinians walk past a fire following what witnesses said was an Israeli air strike on a building in Gaza City on July 24, 2014. (Reuters/Suhaib Salem) 

Smoke rises after an Israeli strike hit the offices of the Hamas movement's Al-Aqsa satellite TV station in Gaza City on July 31, 2014. (AP Photo/Hatem Moussa)

A man carries the body of Palestinian girl, who medics said was killed in an Israeli air strike that destroyed her family's house, in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip on July 29, 2014. (Reuters/Ibraheem Abu Mustafa) 

Flames engulf the fuel tanks of the only power plant supplying electricity to the Gaza Strip after it was hit by overnight Israeli shelling, on July 29, 2014, in the south of Gaza City. The damage of the power plant exacerbated the heavy damage to civilian infrastructure in Gaza already inflicted during the 22 days of the Israeli offensive aimed at stamping out militant rocket fire and destroying attack tunnels. (Mahmud Hams/AFP/Getty Images)

An Israeli soldier attends the funeral of fellow Israeli soldier Liad Lavi, who died after succumbing to wounds he sustained last week while fighting in Gaza, in Meitar near Beersheba, on July 28, 2014. (Reuters/Siegfried Modola)

Displaced Palestinian Hajar Muharram, 5, sits in a classroom where her family of seven now live, at a U.N. school, in Beit Lahiya, northern Gaza Strip, on July 31, 2014. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)

In a picture taken from the Israel-Gaza border, smoke rises from the coastal side of the Gaza strip following an Israeli air strike on July 30, 2014. (Jack Guez/AFP/Getty Images)

21세기 중국의 모습: Scenes From 21st-Century China

The People's Republic of China, the most populous country, and the second-largest economy, in the world, is a vast, dynamic nation that continues to grow and evolve. In this, the latest entry in a semi-regular series on China, a homemade 3-ton tank, a man inflating tires with his nose, a massive teapot-shaped building, nearsightedness-prevention devices, a replica Sphinx, and much more. This collection offers only a small view of people and places across the country over the past few months.

A resident walks along a railway track surrounded by trees on both sides, in Nanjing, Jiangsu province, on June 15, 2014. (Reuters/Stringer)

Health officers in full protective gear wait to cross a road near a wholesale poultry market in Hong Kong on January 28, 2014. Hong Kong culled 20,000 chickens and suspended imports of fresh poultry from mainland China for 21 days after the discovery of the H7N9 bird flu virus in a batch of live chicken from the southern province of Guangdong. (Reuters/Tyrone Siu) 

An ancient tower balances on the top of a dirt hill, with its base eroded, along a grassland in Qixian county, Shanxi province, on July 19, 2014. Local authorities said they were looking into way to protect and remedy the tower after pictures, taken by a relic preservation enthusiast, were posted on the Internet, local media reported. (Reuters/Stringer)

This photo taken on July 12, 2014 shows a taxi driving past a large residential complex in Hong Kong. Housing prices in the southern Chinese city have roughly doubled since 2009, with prices being pushed up by buyers from mainland China. (Alex Ogle/AFP/Getty Images) 

A man looks at a contaminated river in Cangnan county of Wenzhou, Zhejiang province July 24, 2014. Local authorities said the water in the river turned red after several buckets of red dye were spilled near the riverbank and the local environmental protection administration did not find harmful substances in the water, local media reported. (Reuters/Stringer) 

Pupils read books as they sit on refitted desks aiming to prevent student nearsightedness, at a primary school in Wuhan, Hubei province, on March 10, 2014. The desk, with a steel bar that can be moved back and forth to keep a distance between student's eyes and the books, is deployed to several schools in Wuhan as a trial run, local media reported. (Reuters/Stringer)

Firefighter Huangpu Jiangwu carries a burning gas cylinder from the site of a fire incident in Wuhan, Hubei province, on January 3, 2014. Huangpu's identity was revealed by local media after his pictures were taken and gained popularity with members of Weibo, a Chinese microblogging site also known as "Twitter of China." (Reuters/Stringer)

A man looks at a full-scale replica of the Sphinx, part of an unfinished theme park that will also accommodate the production of movies, television shows and animation, on the outskirts of Shijiazhuang, Hebei province, on May 10, 2014. (Reuters/Stringer) 

A model presents a creation by Hong Kong and Beijing based British designer Nina Griffee, which includes a designer Vogmask with air filters providing protection from PM 2.5 particles, at the Hong Kong Fashion Week for Spring and Summer 2015, in Hong Kong on July 8, 2014. (Reuters/Bobby Yip)

Overweight Chinese students stretch after swimming during training at a camp held for overweight children on July 15, 2014 in Beijing, China. Obesity is a growing problem amongst the burgeoning middle-class in China, and recent studies show that the country is now the second fattest in the world behind the United States. (Kevin Frayer/Getty Images) 

This picture taken on March 5, 2014 shows a soldier jumping through a ring of fire during a tactical training mission in Heihe, northeast China's Heilongjiang province. (AFP/Getty Images) 

A miniature sculpture made by Chinese artist Li Qici, which imitates Chinese painter Xu Beihong's painting of eight running horses, is displayed on his finger, to celebrate the upcoming Chinese New Year in Yuyao, Zhejiang province, on January 5, 2014. Li, 68, spent several months to craft the miniature sculpture on a 6-millimeter-long by 3-millimeter-wide ivory plate to the likeness of Xu's painting. (Reuters/Stringer)

A mother holds her daughter as they wade across a flooded street during heavy rain in Hefei, Anhui province, on July 27, 2014. (Reuters/Stringer)

Women ride an electric scooter past buildings designed as Gothic architecture, which are part of the Hebei Academy of Fine Arts campus, in Shijiazhuang, Hebei province, on May 24, 2014. The buildings became popular online in China after netizens and media said they look like Hogwarts from J.K. Rowling's "Harry Potter" fantasy novels. The campus, which costs about 400 million yuan ($64 million) to build, is still under construction and will open for its first enrolment this fall, local media reported. (Reuters/Stringer) 

Children in gowns and mortarboards pose for pictures during their kindergarten graduation ceremony, in Wenxian county, Henan province, on July 2, 2014. (Reuters/Stringer) 

An employee talks with a beggar kneeling in front of a restaurant to beg for money with a camel in Shaoxing, Zhejiang province, on November 25, 2013. Several beggars with their camels showed up at a business area in the city, kneeling down store after store to beg for money, according to local media. (Reuters/Stringer)

Chinese women holding toy guns dance to a revolutionary song as part of their daily exercise at a square outside a shopping mall in Beijing, on June 27, 2014. About 30 local residents formed this "Nanguan" art group that enjoys performing and dancing to revolutionary songs as part of their nightly fitness activity. (Reuters/Jason Lee) 

The Jiangbei Cathedral burns on July 28, 2014 in Ningbo, Zhejiang Province. A fire destroyed one of China's oldest cathedrals in the east China city of Ningbo, with no casualties reported. The cathedral was built in the Jiangbei District of Ningbo,Zhejiang Province by a French bishop in 1872. The church, a landmark of Ningbo, is a key cultural relic under state-level protection for its great historical and architectural value. (ChinaFotoPress via Getty Images)

A man takes down pin-up photos of women covering the windows of a building housing a bathhouse in Changsha, Hunan province, on January 10, 2014. The photos, over 50 in total, were taken down after exposure on the Internet and the intervention of the city administration department. (Reuters/Stringer)

A therapist holds a towel. preparing to put out the fire as a man undergoes a "fire treatment", a traditional Chinese remedy, at a health club in Quanzhou, Fujian province, on June 9, 2014. The treatment involves placing Chinese medicine onto the human body, then covering the medicine with towels soaked with alcohol which are set aflame. The fire is believed to create a warmer condition for the body to better absorb the medicine. (Reuters/Stringer)

People duck and hide themselves under umbrellas as a giant figure of Optimus Prime from the movie "Transformers 4: Age of Extinction" stands in the heavy rain for its world premiere in Hong Kong Thursday, June 19, 2014. The film grossed $317 million in China alone - setting the record for highest-grossing movie in China to date. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)

The sun rises on June 12, 2014 over the ancient Hongcun Village in China. Hongcun Village, located in the eastern province of Anhui, is an ancient village with 900-year history, which was added to the list of World Natural and Cultural Heritage Site by UNESCO in late 2000. (Lintao Zhang/Getty Images) 

Long March 3C, a rocket carrying the 6th Beidou navigational satellite, lifts off from the launch pad at the Xichang Satellite Launch Center, Sichuan province, on November 1, 2010. Photo re-released July 2014. (Reuters/Stringer)

Visitors look at fish in the aquarium inside the Chimelong Ocean Kingdom in Zhuhai on April 29, 2014. The park which claims to be the world's largest ocean theme park was built at an estimated cost of USD3.3 billion and opened in March of this year. (Mark Ralston/AFP/Getty Images)

Nie Yongbing inflates tires using his nose as people stand on them in Chengdu, Sichuan province, on January 14, 2014. Nie inflated four tires bearing the weight of eight adults in 21 minutes during a performance at his home. A traditional Chinese doctor had suggested Nie practice blowing balloons with his nose to improve his health. Nie started inflating tires after he found balloon blowing not challenging three years ago. (Reuters/Stringer)

Thousands of soldiers of Jiangsu Armed Police Force attend an oath ceremony for the Nanjing 2014 Youth Olympic Games protection on July 29, 2014 in Nanjing, China. (ChinaFotoPress via Getty Images) 

A cook from a nearby hotel looks at his mobile phone at a demolition site, which is making way for the building of new property in Lishui, Zhejiang province, on June 10, 2014. (Reuters/Stringer) 

This photo taken on July 6, 2014 shows the Chinese aircraft carrier Liaoning docked at the seaport city of Dalian in northeast China's Liaoning province. The 300-meter (1,000-foot) Liaoning -- a Soviet-era vessel Beijing bought from Ukraine -- was commissioned in September 2012, and officers have acknowledged that it is not yet ready for combat, with naval fighter pilots taking years to train. (STR/AFP/Getty Images)

Young people drag fake cabbages as part of a performance titled "Walk the cabbage", designed to question restricted daily activities and encourage thoughts on freedom in Beijing, on June 24, 2014. (AP Photo/Alexander F. Yuan)

An aerial view of a building shaped like a clay teapot in Wuxi, Jiangsu province, on March 4, 2014. Located in a suburban area, the teapot shaped building will be a cultural exhibition hall when completed. (Reuters/Carlos Barria) 

An animal activist kneels down as she offers to buy a dog from a vendor to stop it from being eaten ahead of the annual dog meat festival in Yulin, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, on June 20, 2014. (Reuters/Stringer)

A perigee moon also known as a supermoon rises behind figurines on a Chinese pavilion in Beijing, China, on July 12, 2014. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan) 

A man rows a boat on a river in front of new properties in Taiyuan, Shanxi province, on July 24, 2014. China's economy probably will grow at its slowest pace in 24 years this year, expanding by 7.4 percent, as government stimulus measures fail to fully offset the drag from a sluggish housing market, a Reuters poll showed. (Reuters/Stringer)

Jian Lin, a 31-year-old farmer who used to serve in the Chinese navy, waves in his home-made replica of a tank during a trial run, at a village in Mianzhu, Sichuan province, on April 9, 2014. The tank, which measures 4.5m long (15 feet), 1.6m wide (5 feet) and 2.1m high (7 feet), weighs nearly 3 tons and cost Jian about 40,000 yuan ($6,450) to make. (Reuters/Stringer)

This photo taken on June 16, 2014 shows the "Top of Peak" formation at the Huangshan (Yellow Mountains) park in Anhui Province. The UNESCO World Heritage Site is one of China's major tourist destinations and has been a source of inspiration to Chinese painters, writers and poets for thousands of years. (Mark Ralston/AFP/Getty Images)