
A Palestinian man cries next the body of a dead relative in the morgue of Shifa Hospital in Gaza City. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)

A Palestinian man kisses the hand of a dead relative in the morgue of Shifa Hospital in Gaza City. President Barack Obama on Sunday defended Israel's airstrikes on the Gaza Strip, but he warned that escalating the offensive with Israeli ground troops could deepen the death toll and undermine any hope of a peace process with the Palestinians. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)

Palestinian Khaled Tafesh cries outside the morgue of Shifa Hospital before taking the dead body of his 10-month-old infant in Gaza City, Friday, Nov. 16, 2012. According to hospital reports, Haneen Tafesh died from wounds of an earlier Israeli strike. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)

Palestinian medics wheel a wounded man to the treatment room of Shifa hospital on March 12, 2012, following an Israeli air strike in Gaza City. (Associated Press)