International Photography Awards 2014
Second Place Editorial : War/Conflict (Professional)
Photographer: Oliver Weiken

Palestinians first responders rush a man who got injured when a UN school for refugees was according to medics hit by an Israeli tank shell cry in the over crowded emergency room of Kamal Adwan hospital in Beit Lahia, 24 July 2014. At least 16 Palestinians were killed, among them seven children, and some 200 injured when an UN-operated school north of Gaza City was struck by Israeli tank shells, the Gaza Health Ministry said. Witnesses, who were in the school run by the United Nations for Relief and Work Agency (UNRWA), said Israeli tanks fired four shells at the school. EPA/OLIVER WEIKEN

A nine year old Palestinian boy holds his sister (1.5 years) in the emergency room of the Shifa hospital in Gaza City, 18 July 2014. The girl got injured by shrapnel after a tank fired at their home in the Shuja'iyya neighbourhood of East Gaza early morning. EPA/OLIVER WEIKEN

A Palestinian man cries as he holds the dead body of his young brother shortly after he got killed by an Israeli naval bombardment in the port of Gaza City in the morgue of the Shifa hospital in Gaza, 16 July 2014. Four boys died on the spot a fifth boy shortly after in hospital. Israel stepped up its attacks 16 July 2014 by bombing the homes of Hamas leaders after the Islamist movement rejected a truce proposal and instead launched dozens more rockets. EPA/OLIVER WEIKEN

A young Palestinian girl who got injured when a UN school for refugees was allegedly hit by a Israeli tank shells, lies on a hospital bed in the emergency room of Kamal Adwan hospital in Beit Lahiya, Gaza Strip, 24 July 2014. At least 16 Palestinians were killed, among them seven children, and some 200 injured when an UN-operated school north of Gaza City was struck by Israeli tank shells, the Gaza Health Ministry said. Witnesses, who were in the school run by the United Nations for Relief and Work Agency (UNRWA), said Israeli tanks fired four shells at the school. EPA/OLIVER WEIKEN

A Palestinian family who fled their homes is en route to seek shelter in a UN school in Khan Younis, central Gaza Strip, 18 July 2014. At least 24 Palestinians were killed overnight into Friday - with dozens more reported injured - officials said, as Israel ratcheted up its offensive in the Gaza Strip with ground troops. The first Israeli soldier was also killed in the ground fighting in the northern Gaza Strip, the Israeli military confirmed 18 July 2014. That means the overall death toll in the densely populated coastal enclave climbed to more than 260, with 2,000 injured, many of them civilians, Gaza Health Ministry spokesman Ashraf al-Qedra said. EPA/OLIVER WEIKEN