AP PHOTOS: Grief, devastation overwhelm region in second week of Israel-Hamas war
By The Associated Press2 min read
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Wounded Palestinians sit in Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, central Gaza Strip, after arriving from al-Ahli Hospital following an explosion there, Tuesday, Oct. 17, 2023.
Abed Khaled - stringer, ASSOCIATED PRESS
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Palestinians look for survivors after Israeli airstrikes in Khan Younis, Gaza Strip, Monday, Oct. 16, 2023.
Fatima Shbair - staff, ASSOCIATED PRESS
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Wounded Palestinians arrive to al-Shifa hospital, following Israeli airstrikes on Gaza City, central Gaza Strip, Monday, Oct. 16, 2023.
Abed Khaled - stringer, ASSOCIATED PRESS
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A girl carries blankets as she walks past the site of a deadly explosion at al-Ahli hospital in Gaza City, Wednesday, Oct. 18, 2023.
Abed Khaled - stringer, ASSOCIATED PRESS
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A young girl looks through a bus window as her family departs the northern Israeli city of Kiryat Shmona, Israel, Friday, Oct. 20, 2023. The Israeli military announced Friday it would evacuate the border city a day after three residents were injured by cross-border fire from militants in Lebanon.
Baz Ratner - stringer, ASSOCIATED PRESS
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Wounded Palestinians lie on the floor in Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, central Gaza Strip, after arriving from al-Ahli Hospital following an explosion there, Tuesday, Oct. 17, 2023.
Abed Khaled - stringer, ASSOCIATED PRESS
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Mourners attend the funeral of Israeli woman Shiraz Tamam, killed by Hamas militants while attending a music festival, at a cemetery in Holon, central Israel, Tuesday, Oct. 17, 2023.
Petros Giannakouris - staff, ASSOCIATED PRESS
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Palestinians look for survivors in a building destroyed in an Israeli bombardment in Rafah refugee camp in Gaza Strip on Tuesday, Oct. 17, 2023.
Fatima Shbair - staff, ASSOCIATED PRESS
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Palestinians try to rescue a child from under the rubble after Israeli airstrikes in Gaza City, Gaza Strip, Wednesday, Oct. 18, 2023.
Abed Khaled - stringer, ASSOCIATED PRESS
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Antonio Macías' mother cries over her son's body covered with the Israeli flag at Pardes Haim cemetery in Kfar Saba, near Tel Aviv, Israel, Sunday, Oct. 15, 2023. Macias was killed by Hamas militants while attending a music festival in southern Israel earlier this month.
Francisco Seco - staff, ASSOCIATED PRESS
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An Israeli mobile artillery unit fires a shell from southern Israel towards the Gaza Strip, in a position near the Israel-Gaza border, Israel, Sunday, Oct. 15, 2023.
Ohad Zwigenberg - staff, ASSOCIATED PRESS
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Photos of Israelis missing and held captive in Gaza, are displayed on a wall in Tel Aviv, Israel, Wednesday, Oct. 18, 2023. The Israeli army says some 200 people were kidnapped and taken to Gaza in Hamas' cross-border attack on Israel on Oct. 7.
Ohad Zwigenberg - staff, ASSOCIATED PRESS
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Mourners attend the funeral of Israeli soldier Amitai Zvim, killed by the Hamas militants, at the Mount Herzl cemetery in Jerusalem on Monday, Oct. 16, 2023.
Petros Giannakouris - staff, ASSOCIATED PRESS
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Palestinian families rush out of their homes after Israeli airstrikes target their neighborhood in Gaza City, central Gaza Strip, Tuesday, Oct. 17, 2023.
Abed Khaled - stringer, ASSOCIATED PRESS
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A Palestinian, wounded in Israeli bombardment, waits for treatment in a Hospital in Deir al-Balah, southern Gaza Strip, Friday, Oct. 20, 2023.
Hatem Moussa - staff, ASSOCIATED PRESS
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Liyam, 20, first name given, pays respects at the grave of his fellow commander, at Mount Herzl military cemetery, in Jerusalem, on Monday, Oct. 16, 2023.
Petros Giannakouris - staff, ASSOCIATED PRESS
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A shell from Israeli artillery explodes over a house in al-Bustan, a Lebanese border village with Israel, south Lebanon, Sunday, Oct. 15, 2023.
Hussein Malla - staff, ASSOCIATED PRESS
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Israeli Iron Dome air defense system fires to intercept a rocket fired from the Gaza Strip, in Ashkelon, Israel, Friday, Oct. 20, 2023.
Avi Roccah - stringer, ASSOCIATED PRESS
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An Israeli soldier kisses his partner as she visits him near the border with the Gaza Strip, southern Israel, Friday, Oct. 20, 2023.
Ohad Zwigenberg - staff, ASSOCIATED PRESS
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Israeli soldiers move a tank at a staging area near the border with Gaza Strip, in southern Israel on Sunday, Oct. 15, 2023.
Ohad Zwigenberg - staff, ASSOCIATED PRESS
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Palestinians check the area of the explosion at al-Ahli Hospital in Gaza City, Wednesday, Oct. 18, 2023.
Abed Khaled - stringer, ASSOCIATED PRESS
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Wounded Palestinian children arrive to Shifa Hospital, following Israeli airstrikes on Gaza City, central Gaza Strip, Tuesday, Oct. 17, 2023.
Abed Khaled - stringer, ASSOCIATED PRESS
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At al-Aqsa Hospital in Deir el-Balah, central Gaza Strip, a Palestinian woman reacts next to the wounded during an Israeli airstrike, Sunday, Oct. 15, 2023.
Adel Hana - staff, ASSOCIATED PRESS
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Palestinians evacuate wounded from a building destroyed in Israeli bombardment in Khan Younis, Gaza Strip, Thursday, Oct. 19, 2023.
Fatima Shbair - staff, ASSOCIATED PRESS
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Palestinians mourn relatives killed in the Israeli bombardment of the Gaza Strip in a morgue in Khan Younis, Tuesday, Oct. 17, 2023.
Fatima Shbair - staff, ASSOCIATED PRESS
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An Israeli flag lays next to flowers on a grave of a soldier killed in the Israel-Hamas war at Mount Herzl military cemetery, in Jerusalem, Monday, Oct. 16, 2023.
Petros Giannakouris - staff, ASSOCIATED PRESS
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Palestinians walk by buildings destroyed in the Israeli bombardment on al-Zahra, on the outskirts of Gaza City, Friday, Oct. 20, 2023.
Ali Mahmoud - stringer, ASSOCIATED PRESS
A wounded Palestinian child, crying and clutching onto adults carrying him into a hospital. A deceased Israeli soldier’s loved ones, their faces wracked with grief as they mourn. Dozens of small posters, each one picturing a missing Israeli, as another sign blares just one word, scribbled in bright red: “Pain.”
The images tell a story of unspeakable tragedy and palpable fear, as the war between Israel and Hamas prepares to enter its third week. The deadliest of the five Gaza wars, it has left more than 1,400 people in Israel dead, as well as more than 4,100 Palestinians, according to the Hamas-run Gaza Health Ministry.
The destruction is clear throughout Gaza, as Palestinians desperately search for survivors and are forced to walk through rubble left behind after Israeli bombardments. And anguish continues to ripple throughout Israel, as mothers bury their children, flags and flowers line even more graves, and couples become separated as one partner heads into combat.
Others, meanwhile, are trying to rush to safe harbor. A little girl, pacifier in mouth, is among many who on Friday had evacuated the northern Israeli city of Kiryat Shmona, after three of its residents were injured by cross-border fire from militants in Lebanon.
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