Today is the 19th day of Israeli air strikes across the Gaza Strip, following the surprise attacks by Hamas on October 7 that left 1,400 people dead in Israel and more than 200 taken hostage. Thousands more civilians have been killed and injured in the subsequent hostilities, as a humanitarian crisis grows in Gaza and Israel prepares for a ground invasion. Collected below are images from Gaza taken over the past five days, where Palestinians are working with few resources to tend to those displaced, rescue those trapped, help the injured, and bury their dead.
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![A man reacts, standing beside a huge pile of rubble following an air strike. Workers and onlookers stand nearby and atop the rubble.]()
Read moreA Palestinian man mourns as civil-defense teams and residents search for people trapped under the debris of a demolished building following Israeli airstrikes that hit the Al-Shati refugee camp, in Gaza City, Gaza, on October 24, 2023. #
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![An aerial view of about a dozen multistory buildings flattened by air strikes]()
Read moreA view of residential buildings destroyed by Israeli strikes on Zahra City, in southern Gaza, on October 21, 2023 #
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![Plumes of smoke and dust rise above buildings after an explosion.]()
Read moreA picture taken from the southern Israeli city of Sderot shows smoke and debris rising over the northern Gaza Strip on October 23, 2023. #
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![A view from inside a bomb-damaged building filled with smoke]()
Read moreA view of smoke and rubble caused by an Israeli air strike on Gaza on October 23, 2023. #
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![A woman carries a young girl through an open space in a city that is filled with bomb debris and covered in gray dust.]()
Read moreA woman carrying a girl reacts after Israeli air strikes hit the Ridwan neighborhood of Gaza City on October 23, 2023. #
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![An injured woman cries beside a dead person, grasping their hand, as others lean in to help her.]()
Read moreAn injured woman cries beside a lifeless body in Gaza's Ridwan neighborhood on October 23, 2023. #
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![A crowd gathers on the edge of and inside a crater caused by an air strike, searching through the rubble.]()
Read morePalestinians gather in a crater filled with debris from a destroyed house in Gaza City on October 21, 2023. #
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![An emergency worker carries an older man into a hospital.]()
Read moreAn injured man is taken to Suheda al-Aqsa Hospital, in Deir al-Balah, Gaza, on October 21, 2023. #
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![Several injured people, including two children, sit and lie on the floor in a hospital.]()
Read moreInjured people gather in Al-Shifa Hospital as Israeli attacks continue in Gaza City on October 23, 2023. #
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![A small rocket leaves a trail of smoke streaking above a cluster of buildings after it is launched.]()
Read moreA picture taken from the southern Israeli city of Sderot shows rockets fired toward Israel from the Gaza Strip on October 23, 2023. #
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![A person sits among a huge pile of debris following a missile strike, speaking into a cellphone.]()
Read moreA Palestinian man talks on a phone, sitting among buildings destroyed in an Israeli bombardment on Rafah on October 22, 2023. #
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![An elevated view of tents in a refugee encampment]()
Read morePalestinians who fled their homes amid Israeli strikes take shelter in a tent camp at a United Nations–run center in Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip, on October 23, 2023. Israel called for more than 1 million civilians in northern Gaza to move south, as defense forces prepared for an expected ground invasion. #
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![People crowd together at a food-distribution point, holding out bowls.]()
Read morePalestinians receive food at a UN-run school in Rafah on October 23, 2023. #
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![Several people lift crates of food from the back of a truck.]()
Read moreUN officers work to distribute aid to Palestinian families in Khan Younis, Gaza, on October 24, 2023. #
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![A child sits next to another child, playing a game on a cellphone in a playground that has been converted into a refugee shelter.]()
Read moreChildren play a game on a cellphone in the playground of a school in Khan Younis run by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees, on October 25, 2023. The playground was recently converted into a shelter for displaced Palestinians. #
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![People stand beside piles of rubble under the destroyed roof of a mosque.]()
Read morePalestinians inspect the remains of a mosque destroyed by Israeli strikes on the northern Gaza Strip, on October 22, 2023. #
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![A large crowd of people works to lower a child from the debris-filled second floor of a heavily damaged building.]()
Read moreRescuers pull a child out of the rubble of a building in Khan Younis, on October 24, 2023. #
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![A person is seen trapped beneath shattered concrete and wires, looking up at several others, who work to free them.]()
Read morePalestinians work to rescue a trapped survivor of an Israeli bombardment on the Nuseirat refugee camp, on October 24, 2023. #
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![A close photograph of a girl with several scrapes and scabs visible on her face]()
Read moreA Palestinian girl, photographed in Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip, on October 22, 2023. She is one of the few survivors of a family who fled Gaza City to seek safety in the south. The family settled in a shelter that was then hit by Israeli strikes, which killed 13 of the girl's relatives. #
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![A person kneels down to the floor to hug a body that is wrapped in a sheet, among more than a dozen other wrapped bodies.]()
Read moreA woman reacts upon seeing the body of her sister, who was killed in an Israeli bombardment on Rafah on October 21, 2023. #
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![People lift a body, wrapped in a sheet, into the back of a refrigerated ice-cream truck.]()
Read morePersonnel outside Al-Aqsa Hospital in Deir Al-Balah, Gaza, store bodies in an ice-cream truck on October 25, 2023. Many cemeteries and morgues in Gaza have run out of space. #
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![A person carries a small body, wrapped in a sheet, into a part of a cemetery with many newly dug graves.]()
Read morePalestinians bury the bodies of their relatives at a cemetery in Deir Al-Balah, Gaza, on October 23, 2023. #
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![Black smoke rises above buildings following a missile attack.]()
Read moreBlack smoke rises as Israeli air strikes continue in Gaza City on October 25, 2023. #
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![A crowd carries a person on a stretcher away from a destroyed building.]()
Read morePeople carry a man pulled from the rubble of a building destroyed by Israel's attacks on Al-Shati, Gaza City, on October 21, 2023. #
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![People walk among debris in a hazy smoke following an air strike.]()
Read moreA view of destroyed buildings in Gaza City on October 25, 2023 #
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