| Keywords | Caption | epa01585656 A Palestinian wounded Hamas police officer is brought to a local hospital after Israeli missile strikes targeting Hamas security compounds in Gaza City, 27 December 2008. Airstrikes and artillery fire by the Israel Defence Forces (IDF) directed at militants from the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas in the Gaza Strip killed 155 people, the highest one-day death toll in the salient since the 1967 Middle East War. More than 300 people were injured in the strikes, security and medical officials said. EPA/MOHAMMED SABER |