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Israelis take cover in a large concrete pipe used as a bomb shelter after a rocket was launched from the Gaza Strip on Nov. 15, 201, in Nitzan, Israel.

Story: Israelis, Palestinians tense as violence escalates along Gaza border

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An Israeli child next to a large concrete pipe used as a bomb shelter during a rocket attack from the Gaza Strip on Nov. 15, 2012, in Nitzan.

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Israeli children play outside a large concrete pipe used as a bomb shelter on Nov. 15 in Nitzan.

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Israelis sit inside a sewage pipe used as shelter during a warning of incoming rockets in the southern community of Nitzan on Nov. 15, 2012.

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Two sides exchange deadly airstrikes, rocket attacks.

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EDITOR’S NOTE, Nov. 16: The captions on the first three photos above have been corrected. Due to an error in the captions supplied by Getty Images, they had originally located the pipe in Kiryat Malachi. All of the pictures were in fact taken in Nitzan.

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Victims of a fire rest at a relief complex in Manila on May 18. Some 1300 families temporarily live at the sports complex after a huge fire engulfed a shanty town destroying homes on May 11.

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A government staff carries bowls of cooked food for distribution to the May 11 fire victims during a feeding program inside a sports gymnasium on May 18 in Manila, Philippines. Some one thousand fire victims from a squatter colony are temporarily housed at the sports gymnasium to receive relief items and free meals.

Last week thousands of families were left homeless after a huge fire swept through a shantytown in Manila, Philippines. The next day residents returned to their devastated homes to try and salvage what they could. The thousands of victims are now living in temporary housing provided by the government.

See more photos from the Philippines in PhotoBlog.

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Elderly people warm themselves with blankets at a Japanese Red Cross hospital after being evacuated from the area hit by tsunami in Ishinomaki on Sunday, March 13. Japan faced a growing humanitarian crisis on Sunday after its devastating earthquake and tsunami left millions of people without water, electricity, homes or heat.

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People are given first aid at a Japanese Red Cross hospital on Sunday, after being evacuated from the area hit by tsunami in Ishinomaki.

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An evacuee who was injured during the earthquake and tsunami, at the Red Cross hospital in Ishinomaki on Monday.

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A "HELP" sign is written on the ground of Ohara Primary School near a sea coast covered with the rubble in Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, northern Japan, on Monday, March 14, three days after a massive earthquake and the ensuing tsunami hit Japan's east coast.

Reuters reports:

Millions of people in Japan's devastated northeast were spending a fourth night without water, food or heating in near-freezing temperatures, as tens of thousands of rescue workers struggled to reach them.

As bodies washed up on the coast, injured survivors, children and elderly crammed into makeshift shelters, often without medicine. By Monday, 550,000 people had been evacuated after the earthquake and tsunami that killed at least 10,000.

The humanitarian crisis was unfolding on multiple fronts -- from a sudden rise in newly orphaned children to shortages of water, food, fuel and electricity to overflowing toilets in overwhelmed shelters and erratic care of traumatized survivors.

"It is the elderly who have been hit the hardest," said Patrick Fuller of the International Federation of Red Cross, in a memo written from Ishinomaki, one of several coastal cities brutalized by the swirling wall of waves.

"The tsunami engulfed half the town and many lie shivering uncontrollably under blankets. They are suffering from hypothermia having been stranded in their homes without water or electricity."