Gaza-Israel conflict in pictures: 11 days of destruction

News imageReuters A combination picture shows a tower building in Gaza City on May 12, 2021 (L and C) and after it was destroyed by Israeli air strikes amid a flare-up of Israeli-Palestinian violence, May 13, 2021Reuters
A tower building in Gaza City (left and centre) and after it was destroyed by Israeli air strikes (right)

After 11 days of fighting, Israel and the Palestinian militant group Hamas have agreed to a ceasefire.

At least 243 people, including more than 100 women and children, were killed in Gaza, according to its health ministry. Israel has said it killed at least 225 militants during the fighting. Hamas has not given casualty figures for fighters.

In Israel 12 people, including two children, were killed, its medical service says.

Both sides claim victory in the conflict. Now images are emerging of the damage done by Hamas rocket fire and Israeli strikes.

The Israeli military says more than 4,300 rockets were fired towards its territory by militants through the conflict, and that it struck more than 1,000 militant targets in Gaza.

News imageReuters A man in Ashkelon looks at the damage done to his house by a rocket fired from GazaReuters
A man looks at the damage done to his house in southern Israel by a rocket fired from Gaza
News imageEPA Damage to shops and cars in Ramat Gan, near Tel Aviv, after a rocket fired from Gaza hit the area, May 2021EPA
Rocket fire damaged cars and shops in Ramat Gan outside Tel Aviv

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the country had gone to "extreme" lengths to avoid civilian casualties in Gaza, taking steps that no other country in the world had done.

News imageEPA Palestinians walk down a street in Gaza City in April before the recent fighting broke outEPA
Palestinians walk down a street in Gaza City in April before the recent fighting broke out
News imageGetty Images A Gaza street destroyed, May 2021Getty Images
That same street, pictured hours after the ceasefire was declared

At a news conference on Friday Mr Netanyahu said that his country had "exacted a heavy price from Hamas".

"Not everything is known to the public yet, nor to Hamas, but the full range of achievements will be revealed over time," he said.

Top Hamas political leader Ismail Haniya, meanwhile, said the recent fighting "defeated the illusions of negotiations", describing resistance as the "best strategic choice for liberation".

"We, as a movement and movement's leadership, with all our people and the good people of this nation and the world, will rebuild Gaza," he added.

News imageGetty Images Broken mannequins lie on the floor outside a shop damaged by an Israeli air strike in Gaza CityGetty Images
Broken mannequins lie on the floor outside a shop damaged by an Israeli air strike in Gaza City
News imageEPA The al-Jalaa tower in ruins after an Israeli air strikeEPA
Gaza City's al-Jalaa tower in ruins after an Israeli air strike
News imageReuters An Israeli man walks through his home in Sderot after it was hit by a rocket fired from GazaReuters
An Israeli man walks through his home in Sderot after it was hit by a rocket fired from Gaza
News imageMAXAR TECHNOLOGIES An oil storage facility in southern Israel burns after it was hit by rocket fire from GazaMAXAR TECHNOLOGIES
An oil storage facility in southern Israel burns after it was hit by rocket fire from Gaza

Presidents and prime ministers worldwide have welcomed the ceasefire, brokered by Egypt.

While some laid blame on one side or the other, leaders overwhelmingly called for a lasting political solution to the conflict.

Further clashes in Jerusalem after ceasefire

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