Iron Dome anti-missile shield systems are deployed near Ashdod, a southern Israeli city bordering the Gaza Strip on July 22, 2014, the 15th day of Operation Protective Edge. As UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is in Israel to broker a peace between the Jewish state and the Islamist Hamas movement, Israel army said it has no intention to cease its Gaza offensive before rooting out the "terror tunnels" that Hamas is using to sneak into Israel. (Xinhua/Li Rui) |