Lefteris Pitarakis / Associated Press
In this Thursday, July 17, 2014, file photo, Palestinian siblings Maria Abdel Aal, 4, right, and Misk, 3, left, cry as the body of their relative Bashir Abdel Aal, killed in an overnight Israeli missile strike in Rafah, southern Gaza Strip, is carried away from the family house, during his funeral. Minors make up almost one-fifth of those killed in Israel's 11-day bombardment of Hamas targets in densely populated Gaza, where half the population is under the age of 18.
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