Graphic images of Palestinians trying to identify the bodies lying on the floor at the morgue of Gaza City's Al-Shifa hospital. The death toll in the Gaza Strip has risen to 687, the health ministry in the Palestinian enclave said, as Israel pounded Hamas targets for the fourth consecutive day. Israel said it had largely secured the Gaza border and was evacuating nearby towns where the bodies of 1,500 Hamas militants had been recovered by Tuesday after days of gruelling battles outside the Pales