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A Palestinian protester uses a sling to throw a stone at Israeli soldiers during clashes at Hawara checkpoint near the West Bank city of Nablus on July 18, 2014, following a protest against Israel's military operation in the Gaza Strip. Israel stepped up its land offensive in Gaza with artillery, tanks and gunboats on Friday and declared it could "significantly widen" an operation Palestinian officials said was killing ever greater numbers of civilians. Israeli gunboats lit up the sky with their fire before dawn while helicopters fired into the coastal enclave. Hamas fired mortar rounds at the invading troops and rockets across the border at the southern Israeli towns of Ashdod and Ashkelon. Among Friday's fatalities were three teenage brothers, who medics said were shelled by an Israeli tank inside their house, at a residential building in Beit Lahiya, a northern. Photo by Nedal Eshtayah
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