In daily violence, more than 20 people were killed in attacks across Iraq on Monday.
A Middle East peace plan introduced two weeks ago has brought no letup in the daily violence.
The region has been relatively quiet for two weeks, but daily violence persists.
A curfew was in place at the time, due to the daily violence in the city.
An 8-year-old boy died of wounds received last month in the daily violence here, along the border with Egypt.
Elsewhere, the daily violence took another heavy toll, with at least 13 people killed in insurgent attacks.
They are crimes that the police, so overwhelmed with daily violence, rarely even bother to investigate.
But it did little to stanch the daily violence across the country.
What do you think of the daily violence between Palestinians and Israelis?
However, what can our observers do to defend civilians against the daily violence?