Escalating Fighting Between the Palestinians and Israel

Mother of Rafat Abu Eid, an Islamic Jihad militant, cries at the scene where her son was killed by an Israeli airstrike, east of Khan Younis, southern Gaza, March 12, 2012. Three Palestinians were killed 12 March, including a teenager on his way to school, in the worst round of Gaza-Israel violence in at least seven months. UPI/Ashraf Amra