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![](javascript:doblowup('All Out From Gaza','/images/uploaded/up_4M3KaK.jpg','An Israeli tank makes its way to a staging area along the border with the Gaza Strip moments after crossing from Gaza into Israel on 20 January 2009 as a soldier with his boots next to his sleeping bag sleep at dawn alongside his APC. Israel has said all troops and equipment will be out from the Gaza Strip by the time Barack Obama takes the oath of office as the 44th United States president. <br />\r\n++++++++++++<br />\r\nThis is NOT THE last tank to leave the Gaza Strip. The IDF did not organize that for still photographers. In fact the IDF did not organize anything for the still photographers during the 3-week war. Trying to locate photographs today, as all the soldiers were basically out from Gaza, I was almost arrested for breaking into the \'closed\' area, and was escorted out. The army office told me the entire area will be a "closed military area" until February 1....don\'t try to go there for a picnic!',700,700);)
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![](javascript:doblowup('Photogs At War','/images/uploaded/up_8FeKQ7.jpg','Photographers who work for the "wire services" with long lenses as we stand on a hill overlooking the northern Gaza Strip where the army was in operations with tanks and large bulldozers. The army was demolishing Palestinian houses. We are all standing in what the army has declared a "closed military area" and face arrest is police catch us.',700,700);)
 and spreads downwards as Palestinian militants shoot a rocket (R) northwards towards Ashkelon or Ashdod late on 16 January 2009. On the 21st day of Israel\'s war against Hamas ground troops continue to fight in Gaza, missile strikes continue and rocket attacks continue into southern Israel. Palestinians estimate over 1,100 people in Gaza have been killed in the war.',700,700);)
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![](javascript:doblowup('Smoke and Fire','/images/uploaded/up_EFaiOv.jpg','A large smoky fire burns out of control just inside the Gaza Strip near Nahal Oz and the Karni Crossing on 15 January 2009, the 20th day of Israel\'s war against Hamas in the Gaza Strip. <br />\r\n++++++++++++++<br />\r\nI believe this is the fire from the UN warehouse as it began burning early in the morning before Ban Ki-Moon\'s arrival in Tel Aviv. This was taken just at dawn, hiding from police against a Kibbutz fence. Police later in the day got me, took my press details and passport number and issued a stern warning about \'next time they caught me here\' as they escorted me out of the "closed military area." I asked to photograph the map showing the enormity of the closed area and they refused to let me - no answer or explanation given.',700,700);)
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![](javascript:doblowup('Day 18','/images/uploaded/up_77sNtd.jpg','An Israeli infantry soldier who had just returned to southern Israel from fighting inside the Gaza Strip since the ground operations commenced performs morning prayers early on 13 January 2009 in a staging area, before leaving on a bus for a base for rest. <br />\r\n+++++++++++<br />\r\nArriving with to other photographers in the dark, we avoided any "closure" police blocking out way and drove along the border and ran into this group of infantry who had just come out under cover of darkness from Gaza and were packing their gear. They let us work with no problems, the sun came up, some prayed, a lot smoked, no officer told us to get out. We left after they boarded buses and left for an army base where they will clean up, rest, smoke more, and probably go back into Gaza if this continues a few more days. In another area of the border I hear an Isralei photographer working for an international agency was detained, had his disks confiscated and formated and was issued a restraining order to not enter a "closed military area" again. ',700,700);)
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![](javascript:doblowup('Tank Column Readies','/images/uploaded/up_6lgxZg.jpg','A column of Israeli tanks in final preparations for an advance into the Gaza Strip on 11 January 2009 morning, on the 16th day of the Israeli offensive against Hamas. <br />\r\n++++++<br />\r\nThe tank commander is not waving at me, but at some army officers who pass between me and the column of tanks. He was gesturing he and his men were ready to go. In order to shoot these photos one has to arrive before sun rise and sort of hide so army officers or police do not find you, as it is officially still a "closed military area." I was there first then five more vehicles came and parked, carrying the wire service photographers from AP, Reuters, AFP, and Sipa. Eventually we were kicked out by the military police but not until the column had gone into Gaza, way down the road.',700,700);)
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![](javascript:doblowup('A Meal and a Prayer or God or Food ?','/images/uploaded/up_0IW8Hv.jpg','An Israeli soldier preforms prayers atop his armoured personnel carrier as a belt of 50-caliber bullets remain loaded in the vehicles\' weapon on 06 January 2008 as a group of APCs returned from fighting inside the Gaza Strip to a staging area along the Israeli - Gaza Strip border.<br />\r\n+++++++++++++<br />\r\nNote to viewers and concerned photographers : Israel had declared the area around the Gaza Strip a "closed military area" and do not want photographers, of television crews snooping around to see what the equipment and troops are doing. So, in order t get a simple, non-descript picture even like this one, takes cunning, daring and a sense of adventure. Imagine!',700,700);)
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 as they make statements and answer a few questions following their meeting dealing with the crises over Hamas in the Gaza Strip, in the Foreign Ministry in Jerusalem on 05 January 2009. From left to right: Swedish Foreign MInister Carl Bildt, French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner (who looks to Schwarzenberg), Benita Ferrero-Waldner from Austria, the European Commissioner for External Relations, and Javier Solano, Special EU envoy.',700,700);)
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