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Conflict in Israel and Gaza, in Photos Conflict in Israel and Gaza, in Photos
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Gaza has been under siege for three weeks, as Israel bombards the territory with airstrikes in response to a brutal assault by Hamas. About half of Gaza’s two million people have been displaced, and they are facing increasingly desperate conditions. Local officials say thousands have been killed.Gaza has been under siege for three weeks, as Israel bombards the territory with airstrikes in response to a brutal assault by Hamas. About half of Gaza’s two million people have been displaced, and they are facing increasingly desperate conditions. Local officials say thousands have been killed.
A densely populated neighborhood in Gaza called Jabaliya refugee camp was hit by Israeli airstrikes on Tuesday, leaving many people dead, according to hospital and health officials in Gaza. On Wednesday, the Gazan interior ministry said that another airstrike in the same area had killed and injured more people.A densely populated neighborhood in Gaza called Jabaliya refugee camp was hit by Israeli airstrikes on Tuesday, leaving many people dead, according to hospital and health officials in Gaza. On Wednesday, the Gazan interior ministry said that another airstrike in the same area had killed and injured more people.
The war began on Oct. 7, when Hamas, which controls Gaza, crossed the border into Israel and killed more than 1,400 people. Last week, Israeli forces entered the Gaza Strip, beginning the most sustained fighting against Hamas since the war began, though the Israeli military has not publicly described the operation as an invasion.The war began on Oct. 7, when Hamas, which controls Gaza, crossed the border into Israel and killed more than 1,400 people. Last week, Israeli forces entered the Gaza Strip, beginning the most sustained fighting against Hamas since the war began, though the Israeli military has not publicly described the operation as an invasion.
One of the challenges they will face is that Hamas took more than 200 hostages from Israel, according to the Israeli military.One of the challenges they will face is that Hamas took more than 200 hostages from Israel, according to the Israeli military.
Here are images from Hamas’s attacks and their aftermath, and of Israel’s response.
This gallery contains graphic images.
People flocked to the Rafah border crossing between Gaza and Egypt, hoping to be able to leave the Gaza Strip.
Those with foreign passports, and their families, checked a list of names to see if they would be allowed through.
An Israeli tank near the border with Gaza.
Israeli Army donor guards paid respects to Staff Sgt. Adi Leon of the Givati Infantry Brigade’s Tzabar Battalion, who was killed in Gaza, at the Modi’in Cemetery in Israel.
Archaeologists and Israeli soldiers searched for human remains among hundreds of burned cars from the attack on Oct 7. The vehicles were collected from the areas surrounding the Gaza border in Israel in order to identify missing persons.
Palestinians stood over the ruins of the Abu Nasr family home, which was destroyed a strike in Khan Younis.
The bodies of a boy and a woman trapped under the rubble were removed from the family home.
Palestinians searched for casualties a day after Israeli strikes on houses in a densely populated area of Gaza called the Jabaliya refugee camp.
Over 200 empty beds were arranged in Safra Square in Jerusalem to represent the hostages taken on Oct. 7.
Palestinians mourned relatives killed in an Israeli airstrike, ahead of a funeral service in Deir El Balah in the central Gaza Strip.
Searching for casualties after a strike at the Jabaliya refugee camp in the northern Gaza Strip.
An Israeli soldier surveyed a house that was destroyed during the Oct. 7 Hamas-led attacks in Kibbutz Nir Oz, Israel.
Emma Megidish, center, the grandmother of the Israeli soldier Pvt. Ori Megidish, celebrating with family members in Kiryat Gat, Israel, after her granddaughter was rescued from Gaza by Israeli troops. Private Megidish had been abducted from an Israeli Army base during the Hamas-led terrorist attacks on Oct. 7 and taken hostage in Gaza.
Israeli artillery near the border with Gaza.
Hanan Jabr sat among her grandchildren as they played around her, in a room at a refugee camp set up by the United Nations in Khan Younis, Gaza.
Palestinians displaced from their homes in the Gaza Strip buying vegetables in a market in Khan Younis.
A destroyed neighborhood in Gaza City.
Rescuing a woman from the rubble after an airstrike in Rafah.
With fuel in scarce supply, Palestinians in downtown Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip, have been turning to bicycles as an alternative means of transportation.
The aftermath of an Israeli bombardment of the Nuseirat refugee camp in the Gaza Strip.
Medical supplies arriving at the Nasser Medical Hospital in Khan Younis.
A funeral in Palmachim, Israel, for Mani and Ayelet Godard, who were killed in the Be’eri kibbutz by Hamas.
People in Tel Aviv at an installation showing a Sabbath table set for those taken hostage in the Oct. 7 attacks.
Carrying a wounded man after an Israeli airstrike on northern Gaza.
Israelis in Tel Aviv calling for the hostages being held in Gaza be released.
Israeli armored vehicles near the border with southern Gaza.
Umm Ibrahim Fayyad, a displaced Palestinian woman from the northern Gaza Strip, using wood to cook on the beach in Deir El Balah, in the southern Gaza Strip.
With a ground invasion looming, Israeli military launched an intense aerial bombardment on the Gaza Strip on Friday.
Palestinians carrying a body following airstrikes on Gaza City.
A family sheltering from rockets fired from Gaza beside their vehicle on a highway near Kiryat Gat, Israel.
Palestinians wait in front of a bakery to buy bread in Khan Younis.
Aviv Vaknin outside of his home, which was destroyed during the Hamas attacks on Oct. 7 in Kfar Azza, Israel.
Soldiers assessing the damage in Kfar Azza, which was devastated in the surprise attack by Hamas on Oct. 7.
Displaced Palestinian charging their phones at a displacement camp Khan Younis.
Palestinians carry a body that was removed from under the rubble of destroyed homes in Khan Younis, Gaza.
Thick smoke rising above the streets in Khan Younis, Gaza.
A funeral for members of the Al-Satra family, who were killed in an airstrike in Khan Younis.
Israelis showing support for the families of the abductees, in Tel Aviv.
People attending a demonstration in Tel Aviv took cover during a rocket attack siren.
Israeli soldiers performing drills in the north of the country.
Volunteers with the ZAKA relief organization cleaning a home in Kibbutz Holit, a community near the borders with Gaza and Egypt, where 13 people were killed during the Oct. 7 Hamas attacks.
Israel continued to amass armor in preparation for a potential ground assault on Gaza.
Israeli soldiers at Kibbutz Be’eri, where more than 100 civilians were killed in the Hamas attack.
Women with the bodies of relatives who were killed in Israeli airstrikes on Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip.
Buildings turned to rubble in Khan Younis.
The funeral of Lianne Sharabi and her daughters, Noiya, 16, and Yahel, 13, in Kfar Harif, Israel.
Yocheved Lifshitz, 85, an Israeli hostage released by Hamas, at a news conference in Tel Aviv. She was held in Gaza for 17 days.
Palestinians searching through rubble following a strike in Gaza.
Treating a child injured by Israeli bombing in Khan Younis.
Lining up for water in Khan Younis.
Sheltering from rockets in Rehovot, Israel.
Training at a gun range in Israel. Since the beginning of the war, requests for gun licenses have soared.
Israel’s military continued to mass armored vehicles and run training exercises along the Gaza border in preparation for a possible ground attack.
A woman from “ Abu Dan” family cries over the loss of her brothers and sisters and bids farewell to them who were killed in the Israeli raids on of Deir al-Balah city from inside Shohadaa Al-Aqsa Hospital in the central Gaza Strip.
Damage from airstrikes at a market in central Gaza.
Carrying the bodies of children killed in airstrikes in Khan Younis.
Caskets bearing the bodies of Nadav Goldstein and his daughter, Yam Goldstein, who was an Israeli soldier, are carried during their funeral in Shefayim, Israel.
Khaled Joudeh mourning his young sister, Misq, at the morgue at Deir Al-Balah hospital in Gaza.
Mourning Roni Levy, who was killed in the Hamas attack on the Be’eri kibbutz, in Revivim, Israel.
Palestinians evacuating a building hit by an Israeli bombardment in Rafah.
Mourning relatives killed following Israeli airstrikes in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip.
Israeli army flares over Gaza City.
Pictures of people abducted, missing or killed in the Hamas attack were displayed at an auditorium at Tel Aviv University in Israel.
Humanitarian aid arriving through the Rafah border crossing into the Gaza Strip.
Soldiers eating dinner prepared by volunteers at a makeshift food and supplies station near Ofakim, Israel.
A building across from a school was destroyed by an Israeli airstrike in Khan Younis.
Injured people were recovered from under the rubble of a building destroyed by an Israeli airstrike in Khan Younis.
An installation called Flowers for Israel at Habima Square in Tel Aviv in memory of fallen soldiers and victims of the Oct. 7 attack.
Family members and representatives of the more than 200 Israeli hostages gathered in Tel Aviv.
Natalie Raanan and her mother, Judith Raanan, speaking with President Biden after being released by their Hamas captors, in a photograph released by the U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem.
The grounds of the historic Saint Porphyrius Greek Orthodox Church in Gaza City after it was hit by an Israeli airstrike.
The Israeli military preparing for an expected ground assault into the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip. These soldiers were training in a simulated Palestinian village.
Palestinians with the bodies of relatives killed in Khan Younis, in southern Gaza.
The families of Israelis held hostage in Gaza set more than 200 empty chairs — representing the number of confirmed hostages — around a long table bearing the traditional Sabbath wine and bread.
Damage after Israeli airstrikes on the outskirts of Gaza City.
At a funeral for children killed in raids in the city of Khan Younis, Gaza.
People looking at the rubble of a home in Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip, that was hit by airstrikes.
Israel’s defense minister, Yoav Gallant, meeting with soldiers near Israel’s border with the Gaza Strip, in southern Israel.
A formation of Israeli tanks and military personnel near Israel’s border with the Gaza Strip.
Displaced people taking shelter in a school in Khan Younis, Gaza.
Wounded children in a hospital in Khan Younis, Gaza.
An image taken during an Israeli army media tour showing blood stains on a bed from the Hamas attack in the kibbutz of Nir Oz.
Candles in Dizengoff Square, in Tel Aviv, in memory of the victims of the Oct. 7 attack by Hamas.
Smoke billowing after airstrikes in Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip.
Palestinians inspected the damage at a church at Ahli Arab hospital in Gaza City. Some people were using the church for shelter.
Collecting the body of a child who was killed in an Israeli airstrike, in preparation for burial, in Khan Younis.
President Biden meeting in Tel Aviv with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel.
Israeli tanks massing outside Mavki’im, Israel.
Families and their supporters gathered near a military base in Tel Aviv, holding pictures of people who have been kidnapped.
Family members grieve during the funeral of Yitzhak Siton, 76; his wife, Hannah Siton, 73; their son, Tal Siton, 49; and Hannah’s sister, Pesi Cohen, 68, in Hod HaSharon, Israel.
Wounded Palestinians were brought to the Al Shifa hospital, following the blast at Ahli Arab Hospital in Gaza City on Tuesday.
Bodies of those who were killed in the strike on Ahli Arab Hospital.
A wounded man at Al Sharif hospital.
Israel Army soldiers fire mortar rounds toward Gaza from in Be’eri, Israel.
The funeral of Yuri and Roza Yadgarov, who were murdered together in their home in Ofakim during the terror attack, in Israel.
Earlier in the day, strikes continued on buildings in Khan Younis, Gaza.
Many children were among those injured or killed by the strikes.
A woman crying at a hospital after a relative was killed by an Israeli airstrike in Khan Younis.
A boy injured by an airstrike receiving treatment at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis.
A women’s activist group outside the U.S. Embassy in Tel Aviv, rallying for missing Israelis, in Tel Aviv.
The floor of a child’s bedroom stained with blood after the deadly attacks by Hamas militants at Kibbutz Be’eri in Israel.
Mourners and IDF soldiers gather around the five coffins of the Kotz family during their funeral in Gan Yavne, Israel.
Tents, water bottles and other items are scattered across the site of the Tribe of Nova Festival in Israel, where hundreds of Israelis were killed by Hamas terrorists.
Israeli soldiers are gathered at a makeshift facility where dinner was served for soldiers at a junction near Urim, Israel.
People flocked to the Rafah border crossing in Gaza, waiting to cross into Egypt.
A girl waiting for the border crossing to open.
Israeli soldiers near the border with Gaza.
Customers at a coffee shop ran for shelter after an alert siren sounded in Ashdod, Israel.
People with U.S. citizenship gathered at the port in Haifa to leave the country.
Boarding the ship from Haifa, Israel, to Cyprus.
A wounded child at a hospital in Khan Younis, Gaza.
Preparing to bury members of a family that were killed in an Israeli airstrikes on Khan Younes, Gaza.
Dark streets in Khan Younis, where electricity, water and other essentials have become difficult to find.
Demonstrators calling for the release of Avinatan Or, who has been missing since a music festival was attacked by Hamas on Oct. 7.
Containers holding the bodies of Israelis killed by Hamas at a military base near Ramla, Israel.
Israeli soldiers securing the border area with Gaza at the Kfar Azza kibbutz.
A displaced Palestinian woman carrying a bag of bread past a house that was destroyed in an Israeli airstrike in Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip.
A supermarket in Khan Younis. Stores have sold out of most basic necessities, like flour and water.
Distributing food in Khan Younis to Palestinians who had been displaced from the north.
Lining up at a bakery to buy bread in Khan Younis.
Families evacuating Sderot, Israel, which was attacked by Hamas gunmen last week.
Israeli residents who were evacuated from their homes near Gaza after the attack by Hamas staying at the Kfar Maccabiah hotel in Ramat Gan, Israel.
Posters in Tel Aviv of Israelis believed to have been kidnapped.
The funeral of Gil Avital, who died fighting Hamas during the attack. Mr. Avital and his two brothers, who both survived, fought in three different kibbutzim.
Israeli army tanks in fields outside Erez as they prepared to move toward the territory.
Palestinians displaced from northern Gaza in Khan Younis.
Shay Albag, Shira Albag and Eli Albag, the sister, mother and father of Liri Albag, who was abducted by Hamas militants, during a demonstration in Tel Aviv calling for the return of the hostages held in Gaza.
Israeli soldiers guarding a checkpoint near the Israel-Lebanon border.
Palestinians displaced from northern Gaza resting in a U.N. school in Khan Younis.
Palestinians wounded in an airstrike being brought to a hospital in Khan Younis.
Israeli soldiers escort residents to pick up their belongings inside the Be’eri kibbutz, which was overrun by Hamas gunmen.
Palestinians transferring the bodies of relatives killed in an Israeli airstrike in Khan Younis.
Palestinians fleeing to safer areas in Gaza City after Israeli airstrikes.
People searching and surveying the rubble of a building that was destroyed by Israeli airstrikes in Rafah.
The inside of a home that was destroyed when the Be’eri kibbutz in Israel was attacked.
The bodies of Israelis killed in the attacks by Hamas awaiting identification at an Israel Defense Forces base in Ramla, Israel.
Palestinian worshipers praying outside Jerusalem’s Old City as Israeli forces stand guard.
A stroller abandoned near an intersection in Sderot, a city in southern Israel that was attacked on Saturday by at least two pickups carrying armed men and a mounted machine gun.
An injured man arriving at Al Shifa Hospital in central Gaza after Israeli warplanes bombed the Shati camp, northwest of Gaza City.
Volunteers making wreaths for bereaved families in Moshav Zeitan, Israel.
Police officers in Sderot searching the impact site of a rocket fired from Gaza.
Families in Khan Younis leaving their home to seek shelter after an airstrike hit a house next door.
Israel’s Iron Dome air-defense system intercepting rockets launched from the Gaza Strip.
An injured child at Al Shifa Hospital after Israeli warplanes bombed the Shati camp.
Mourning in Khan Younis for multiple members of the al-Bushaiti family who were killed in an overnight Israeli airstrike.
The site of the Nova Festival, an outdoor event about three miles from the Gaza border, where Palestinian gunmen killed more than 100 people on Saturday.
Palestinians looking for survivors in a house destroyed by Israeli airstrikes overnight in Khan Younis.
A woman grieving over the bodies of three relatives killed in airstrikes in Gaza City.
An Israeli army self-propelled howitzer firing near the border with Gaza.
Destroyed bank buildings in Khan Younis.
The funeral in Gan Haim, central Israel, of May Naim, 24, who was among those killed at the Nova Festival.
A child carrying belongings from his family’s house, which was damaged in an Israeli airstrike, in Khan Younis.
Funerals of Palestinians killed in Israeli airstrikes in Khan Younis.
Surveying the damage in the Al-Rimal neighborhood of Gaza after Israeli strikes.
An injured girl outside Al Shifa Hospital in central Gaza.
Israeli soldiers near the body of a Hamas gunman in the village of Kfar Azza. Journalists with The New York Times who traveled to the village saw bodies on pathways and lawns, and in houses and other locations.
Family and friends of the paramedic Amit Man, 22, beside her grave in Netivot, Israel.
A salvo of rockets fired from Gaza.
Israeli soldiers with the bodies of Israeli civilians near the border with Gaza.
Carrying an injured child outside Al Shifa Hospital in Gaza.
Residents of Kfar Azza who were evacuated from their homes after gunmen broke into their kibbutz.
Israeli soldiers patrolling in Kfar Azza.
Palestinian journalists mourning their colleagues Saeed Al-Taweel and Muhammad Sobh, who were killed while photographing a strike on Gaza City.
Emergency responders bringing wounded children to Al Shifa Hospital.
The funeral in Tzur Shalom cemetery of Noa Englander, who was killed in the attack on the Nova Festival.
The seaport of Gaza City after Israeli strikes.
Israelis taking cover in a shelter in Ashkelon, about 10 miles north of the Gaza Strip, as a siren warns of incoming rockets.
A tourist group from Italy whose original departure was canceled awaiting another flight at Ben Gurion Airport, outside Tel Aviv.
Destruction around the Ahmed Yassin Mosque, which was bombed in Israeli airstrikes, in Gaza City.
A mother and father carrying their daughter, who was wounded inside a school in downtown Gaza City by an Israeli airstrike, into Al Shifa Hospital.
The funeral of an Israeli soldier, Yuval Ben Yaakov, in the cemetery in Kfar Menahem.
Israeli forces in a cotton field near Kfar Menahem.
Hiding under the stairs after their house was destroyed when Israeli warplanes bombed the Western Mosque, west of Gaza City.
A wounded Palestinian woman mourning as she holds the body of her daughter at Al Shifa Hospital in Gaza City.
The funeral of Col. Roi Levy, 44, at the Mount Herzl Military Cemetery in Jerusalem.
The Iron Dome system intercepting rockets launched from the Gaza Strip, as seen from Ashkelon.
Israelis in Ashkelon evacuating a site struck by a rocket fired from Gaza.
Israelis seeking shelter after a rocket siren was sounded in Jerusalem.
Palestinians search for survivors after an Israeli airstrike on the Jabaliya refugee camp in the Gaza Strip.
A girl running in fear at the sounds of bombing near Al Shifa Hospital.
An E.M.T., Menachem Zacharya, drawing blood from two Israelis at a donation center set up in a Jerusalem arena by Magen David Adom, Israel’s national emergency service.
Relatives mourning people killed in an Israeli airstrike in Gaza City.
A wedding photo in a building in Ashkelon that was hit by rockets.
An injured woman with her child after an Israeli airstrike near their house in the central Gaza Strip.
A building damaged in strikes in Gaza City.
Israeli soldiers leaving a shelter after rocket sirens were sounded in Sderot, as they searched for remaining Hamas gunmen from Gaza in a residential neighborhood near where gunmen had taken over a police station.
A building in Tel Aviv a day after it was hit.
Tali Touito, a resident of Sderot, described how Hamas gunmen attacked and took over the police station on her street.
A blindfolded Palestinian prisoner speaking to a member of the Israeli security forces on the border with Gaza, near Ashkelon.
A strike of the National Islamic Bank in central Gaza.
Searching through the rubble of a house in Khan Younis.
Israeli soldiers in an assembly area near the Gaza Strip.
Gabriel Trigun taking cover beside his car as rockets launched from Gaza were intercepted by the Iron Dome system in Sderot.
Palestinian citizens inspecting their property in Gaza City.
A mother crying next to the body of her son — who was killed in the Israeli raids — on the grounds of Al Shifa Hospital.
Israeli soldiers running to catch up with members of their unit during a patrol in Sderot.
An infant sleeping in a dining room in Kibbutz Mishmar HaNegev after being rescued with a family that was hiding in a house in Kibbutz Kfar.
A woman running to the concrete shelter at her home in Ashkelon after a rocket siren sounded.
Palestinian children looking toward the sky as they hear the sound of airstrikes. Families sought refuge at a United Nations Relief and Works Agency school in Gaza.
Palestinians breaking into the Israeli side of the Israel-Gaza border fence.
The bodies of Israelis killed by Palestinian gunmen who entered from the Gaza Strip lay covered in Sderot.
A resident of Ashkelon looking out the window of his family’s apartment at destruction caused by a rocket fired from Gaza.
Palestinian gunmen surrounding a truck reportedly carrying a captured woman in Khan Younis.
Rockets being fired toward Israel from the Gaza Strip. The assault began without warning at about 6:30 a.m. on the Jewish Sabbath, and almost 50 years to the day since a surprise attack by Egyptian and Syrian forces on Israel that set off the 1973 war.
Members of Israeli security forces carrying a wounded person in Ashkelon.
The aftermath of an Israeli airstrike in Gaza.
Bodies strewn on a road in Sderot.
Palestinian gunmen riding a seized Israeli military vehicle.
Relatives mourning over the bodies of Palestinian assailants at the mortuary of a hospital in Gaza City.
Israeli rescue teams tending to a man in a building that received a direct hit in Ashkelon.
Yeshayahu Foyer, a 91-year-old Holocaust survivor, at his home in Ashkelon after surveying rocket damage to a house under construction next door.
Carrying the body of a Palestinian assailant killed in Gaza.
Israelis donating blood in Jerusalem.
An aerial view of Ashkelon showing vehicles on fire as rockets were launched from the Gaza Strip.
Palestinians celebrating over a burned Israeli car in Gaza.
Text by Victoria Kim.