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Palestinians run to take cover during an Israeli air strike on building in Gaza City. The Israeli military widened its range of targets in the Gaza Strip on Sunday to include the media operations of the Palestinian territory's Hamas rulers, sending its aircraft to attack two buildings used by both Hamas and foreign media outlets. (AP Photo/Adel Hana)

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A Palestinian man waves national flag during a protest against Israel's operations in Gaza Strip, outside Ofer, an Israeli military prison near the West Bank city of Ramallah. (AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed)

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An emergency rescue worker carries a child's body found in the Daloo family house rubble following an Israeli air strike in Gaza City. Palestinian medical officials say at least 10 civilians, including women and young children, have been killed in an Israeli airstrike in Gaza City. (AP Photo/Hatem Moussa)

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Palestinians stand near the rubble of the building of Attia Abu Inkara, a Hamas militant leader, following an Israeli air strike in Rafah refugee camp in southern Gaza Strip. (AP Photo/Eyad Baba)

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** FILE ** Israeli soldiers look at an Iron Dome missile as it launched near the city of Ashdod, Israel, to intercept a rocket fired by Palestinians militants from Gaza Strip, Sunday, Nov. 18, 2012. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

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Palestinians hurry away from a damaged building after an Israeli air strike in Gaza City, Sunday, Nov. 18, 2012. Israel widened the range of targets in its Gaza offensive Sunday, striking more than a dozen homes of suspected Hamas militants and two media offices, according to security officials and witnesses. The attacks also damaged adjacent houses, killing seven civilians, including five children, health officials said. (AP Photo/Adel Hana)

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An Israeli soldier watches as an Iron Dome missile is launched Sunday near Ashdod, Israel. (Associated Press)

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Israeli soldiers gather with their armored personnel carriers in a staging area near the Israel-Gaza Strip border on Sunday. Israel is considering a ground invasion of the Gaza Strip in response to rocket attacks by Hamas militants, but says it would prefer not to do so. (Associated Press)

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A woman is rescued after her family house collapsed during an Israeli forces strike in the Tufah neighborhood of Gaza City on Sunday. Israel says it is using precision weapons to minimize “collateral damage” to civilians in the course of taking out Hamas infrastructure. (Associated Press)

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Palestinians hurry away from a damaged building after an Israeli airstrike in Gaza City, Gaza Strip, on Sunday. Israel widened the range of targets in its Gaza offensive Sunday, striking more than a dozen homes of suspected Hamas militants. (Associated Press)

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This August, 2012 photo provided b Jodie Szablowski shows Evan Szablowski at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, NY. Szablowski, of Bakersfield, Calif., is among 32 Americans named as Rhodes Scholars Saturday, Nov. 17, 2012. The award provides all expenses for up to four years of study at Oxford University in England. Szablowski, of Bakersfield, Calif., is a senior at the USMA, where he majors in mathematics. He has also studied at Al-Akhawayn University in Morocco, and worked on projects encouraging entrepreneurship in Ethiopia, and on emerging markets in the Czech Republic. Evan is also a triathlete, conducts a West Point choir, and was a member of the first American team ever to win the Sandhurst military competition. At Oxford, Evan plans pursue a Masters in Science in mathematical modeling and scientific computing. (AP Photo/Jodie Szablowski)

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Agri, a Kurd from Syria who gave only his first name, said he fled his country due to fighting a few months ago. He said he was attacked in Athens as he walked home one night recently. Human rights and immigrant groups say there has been an increase in racist attacks in Greece over the last year, as the country struggles through a protracted financial crisis. (Associated Press)

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Golden Dawn party lawmaker Ilias Panagiotaros rejects accusations by human rights and immigrant groups that his party has been involved in racist attacks in Greece. (Associated Press)