A Palestinian boy waits to be treated after Israeli missiles struck Gaza city on May 16, 2004. Israel’s top general threatened to destroy hundreds of Palestinian refugee homes after the Supreme Court cleared the way for demolitions in a flashpoint Israeli-held corridor on the Gaza-Egypt border. Secretary of State Colin Powell said the United States opposed the destruction of homes in Rafah refugee camp, adjacent to the ‘Philadelphi’ buffer zone in the southern Gaza Strip, and urged an end to a cycle of violence. (Suhaib Salem/Reuters)




Ahmed Abed Ali, 76, prays as Marines find out from their superios if he is allowed through their lines to get to where he lived before the start of the siege of Fallujah weeks earlier in northwest Fallujah, Iraq. The man was given a bottle of water by the Marines and told he had to walk back south to find another way to his home.

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