A Palestinian man hold-up the body of one-year-old baby Noha Mesleh, who died of wounds sustained after a UN school in Beit Hanun was hit by an Israeli tank shell, during her funeral in Beit Lahia, northern Gaza Strip, on July 25, 2014. Fifteen people were killed when Israeli fire hit a UN-run school in Gaza, raising the Palestinian toll on the 17th day of the conflict to 777, medics said.

Palestinian mourners cry at Gaza City’s al-Shifa hospital after an explosion killed at least seven children in a public playground in the beachfront Shati refugee camp on July 28, 2014. Palestinian medical sources blamed the killings on air strikes launched by the Israeli military, which in turn said Hamas had misfired its own rockets at the camp and at the Shifa hospital.

Relatives of four boys killed during an Israeli naval bombardment mourn during their funeral in Gaza City on July 16, 2014. Four children were killed and several injured at a beach in Gaza City medics said, in Israeli shelling witnessed by AFP journalists. The deaths raised the overall toll in nine days of violence in Gaza to 213.

A Palestinian man kisses the head of a one-year-old baby Noha Mesleh, who died of wounds sustained after a UN school in Beit Hanun was hit by an Israeli tank shell, as he carries her during her funeral in Beit Lahia, northern Gaza Strip, on July 25, 2014. Fifteen people were killed when Israeli fire hit a UN-run school in Gaza, raising the Palestinian toll on the 17th day of the conflict to 777, medics said.

A Palestinian girl sits and eats in the rubble of her destroyed home, on August 2, 2014 following an overnight Israeli strike on Gaza City. A fresh wave of violence killed dozens in Gaza after the collapse of a UN and US backed ceasefire, officials said, as Hamas denied it kidnapped an Israeli soldier.

A Palestinian man rests on school desks as families gather at a UN school after evacuating their homes near the border at the Jabaliya refugee camp in the Gaza Strip on July 15, 2014. Israel’s security cabinet accepted an Egyptian ceasefire proposal after a week of the deadliest violence in and around Gaza in years, Israeli media reports said.

A Palestinian man looks out over destruction in part of Gaza City’s al-Tufah neighbourhood as the fragile ceasefire in the Gaza Strip entered a second day on August 6, 2014 while Israeli and Palestinian delegations prepared for crunch talks in Cairo to try to extend the 72-hour truce. The ceasefire, which came into effect on August 5, has brought relief to both sides after one month of fighting killed 1,875 Palestinians and 67 people on the Israeli side.

Palestinian men light a fire to illuminate their neighborhood destroyed during the 50 days of conflict between Israel and Hamas, in the Shejaiya neighborhood of Gaza City, on September 24, 2014. A new UN-brokered deal has set the stage for private companies to help rebuild Gaza after a seven-week conflict that left 100,000 people with nowhere to live. Until now Israel’s eight-year blockade of Gaza has meant that few building materials are flowing into the Palestinian territory, making reconstruction a near-impossible task.

A Palestinian boy looks up during a rain storm while walking through a neighbourhood destroyed during the 50 day conflict between Israel and Hamas, in the Shejaiya neighbourhood of Gaza City on October 19, 2014. United Nations chief Ban Ki-moon said that the promised aid funds to rebuild would go towards the “urgently needed” building of infrastructure and homes in Gaza where nearly 2,200 Palestinians were killed in the 50-day war in July and August.

Palestinian students are seen through a damaged wall standing in a classroom at a goverment school in the Shejaiya neighbourhood of Gaza City on September 14, 2014 on the first day of the new school year. Half a million children in Gaza start the new school year three weeks late as a result of the devastating 50-day war between Israel and Hamas that ended on August 26, 2014.

Medics evacuate the body of a boy from Gaza’s eastern Shejaiya district on July 20, 2014. At least 40 people were killed and nearly 400 wounded in Israeli shelling of Gaza’s northeastern Shejaiya district overnight, medics said.

A Palestinian man reacts as flames engulf the fuel tanks of the only power plant supplying electricity to the Gaza Strip after it was hit by overnight Israeli shelling, on July 29, 2014, in the south of Gaza City. The damage of the power plant exacerbated the heavy damage to civilian infrastructure in Gaza already inflicted during the 22 days of the Israeli offensive aimed at stamping out militant rocket fire and destroying attack tunnels.

Debris scatters as a Palestinian house is hit by an Israeli air strike in Gaza city on August 23, 2014. The Israeli military said it had carried out around 20 air strikes over the Gaza Strip and that three rockets or mortar rounds had hit southern Israel near the border with Gaza.

Medics evacuate the body of a boy from Gaza’s eastern Shejaiya district on July 20, 2014. At least 40 people were killed and nearly 400 wounded in Israeli shelling of Gaza’s northeastern Shejaiya district overnight, medics said.

A Palestinian man plays with his baby on a beach on September 7, 2014 in Gaza city.