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Palestinian schoolchildren look toward the sky at the sound of airstrikes as Israel, vowing to eliminate Hamas, launched an offensive on Gaza on October 7.
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Evgenia Simanovich runs to the reinforced concrete shelter of her family’s home, moments after rocket sirens sounded in Ashkelon, Israel, on October 7. “In Ashkelon, residents have just seconds to seek shelter before a rocket launched from Gaza could strike,” photographer Tamir Kalifa told CNN. “Evgenia yelled for me to follow her, and I pressed my camera’s shutter as we sprinted to her home a few meters away.”
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Palestinian children are seen in a damaged house in Gaza City after Israeli airstrikes on October 7.
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Bodies lie on the ground in Sderot, Israel, on October 7. The city borders Gaza and is a
frequent target of rocket attacks. This was one of the first photos taken by Ziv Koren as he entered Sderot, witnessing a “trail of dead bodies” left by Hamas militants, he said.
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A photo from a wedding is seen on the ground of a building in Ashkelon, Israel, after it was hit by rockets from Gaza on October 9.
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Lightning strikes over Gaza City following an Israeli bombardment on October 9.
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Children run for cover as bombs fall near the Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City on October 9.
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Palestinians inspect the rubble of the Yassin mosque on October 9 after it was hit by an Israeli airstrike at the Shati refugee camp in Gaza City.
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Gunshots and bloodstains are seen at a house in Kfar Aza, Israel, on October 10. Days earlier, civilians were killed here in an attack by Hamas militants.
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Smoke rises after Israeli strikes on the seaport of Gaza City on October 10.
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Itzik and Miriam Shafir, center, mourn during their son’s funeral at a cemetery in Modiin Maccabim, Israel, on October 10. Their son, Dor Shafir, and his girlfriend, Savion Kiper, were killed during
Hamas' attack on a music festival.
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This photo, taken on October 11, shows the music festival camp in Israel that was overrun by Hamas militants on October 7.
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An Israeli soldier covers his ears as a shell is fired toward Gaza near Netivot, Israel, on October 11.
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People in Rehovot, Israel, take cover as a siren sounds a warning of incoming rockets fired from Gaza on October 13.
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Inas Abu Maamar embraces the body of her 5-year-old niece, Saly, at the Nasser Hospital morgue in Khan Younis, Gaza, on October 17.
Saly was killed in an Israeli strike, according to the Reuters news agency. Saly’s mother and sister were also killed, along with Inas’ uncle and aunt. “It was a powerful and a sad moment and I felt the picture sums up the broader sense of what was happening in the Gaza Strip,” photographer Mohammed Salem said. “People were confused, running from one place to another, anxious to know the fate of their loved ones, and this woman caught my eye as she was holding the body of the little girl and refused to let go.” The photograph was part of Reuters’
Pulitzer Prize-winning package.
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The floor of a child’s bedroom is stained with blood in Be’eri, an Israeli kibbutz near the Gaza border, on October 17. “It’s difficult to imagine or know exactly what happened in that room, but the signs of violence were indisputable,” photographer Tamir Kalifa said.
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Khaled Joudeh mourns his younger sister, Misq, at the morgue of the Deir al-Balah hospital in Gaza on October 22. His mother, father, brother and sister were all killed in an Israeli airstrike. Months later,
the New York Times reported Khaled was also killed in another airstrike.
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A patient lies on the floor of the Al-Aqsa Hospital in Deir al-Balah on November 5. Doctors said they were performing surgeries without anesthesia after weeks of Israeli attacks left severe shortages of medical supplies.
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Photojournalist Mohammed Alaloul, who works for Turkey’s Anadolu Agency, carries the body of one of his children who was killed
at the Al-Maghazi refugee camp in central Gaza on November 5. Several of his family members, including four of his children,
were killed. “This isn’t uncommon, seeing journalists and photographers finding their dead children while working,” photographer Samar Abu Elouf said. “My biggest fear is finding myself in the position of the people I photograph, to be the one pictured mourning over my children’s bodies.”
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Palestinian journalists pray November 19 over the bodies of colleagues Sari Mansour and Hassouna Eslim, who were killed in an Israeli raid at the Bureij refugee camp in central Gaza.
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Israeli troops arrest a suspected Hamas soldier in eastern Gaza on November 22. “I’ve been a journalist for over 30 years, since the first Intifada in 1987,” photographer Ziv Koren said. “I’ve covered war and conflict and natural diseases. I’ve traveled to Haiti to the Far East, from Africa to Ukraine. I’ve covered stories on terrorism. But nobody could expect this kind of event, this magnitude of loss on October 7.”
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Palestinians bury bodies in a mass grave in the Khan Younis cemetery in southern Gaza on November 22. The remains, which bore only numbers, had come from the Indonesian and Al-Shifa hospitals in northern Gaza, according to members of the committee at the burial site.
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International Red Cross vehicles, carrying Israeli hostages released from Gaza, travel to the Rafah border crossing with Egypt on November 24.
Israel and Hamas had agreed to a temporary truce, with some civilian hostages and Palestinian detainees being released.
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Palestinians enjoy the beach in Khan Younis, Gaza, during the temporary truce on November 25.
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Israa Jaabis, left, is hugged as she arrives home in East Jerusalem on November 26 after being released by Israel as part a prisoner-hostage exchange. Jaabis had been convicted of an "attempt to cause grievous bodily harm with aggravated intent," according to the New York Times, citing her lawyer. Jaabis was arrested in 2015 after her car exploded near a West Bank checkpoint, leaving her and an Israeli police officer with serious injuries. She said the explosion was due to a gas container for cooking she had in her car that day, and that the fire started without her knowledge, according to Palestinian prisoner's rights group Addameer.
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This aerial photo, taken on November 28, shows destruction caused by Israeli strikes in central Gaza.
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A woman holds the body of a baby as others mourn at the Najar hospital in Rafah, Gaza, on December 14. “A year into a war unlike any in history, during which we lost our homes, offices and loved ones, I hope this war ends and the killing stops and the suffering of my people ceases,” photographer Mahmud Hams told CNN.
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Israeli troops walk December 19 through what they said was an underground tunnel used by Hamas militants in Gaza. Weeks into Israel’s ground operation in Gaza, one of the key challenges facing its military
was the labyrinth of Hamas tunnels that it said spans the entirety of the Strip. “I was embedded with the Yahalom Unit,” photographer Ziv Koren said. “You were 10-15 meters underground. It was very, very hot. You sweat a lot, it was hard to breathe. The tunnels were a complicated structure. Some tunnels had electricity, locked rooms, folding beds and toilets.”
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A person’s portrait is reflected in water January 11 at the site of the music festival in southern Israel that was overrun by Hamas militants in October. The site today is filled with Israeli flags and pictures of those who have been killed or taken captive by Hamas.
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An injured Palestinian child receives treatment at a hospital in Rafah, Gaza, after Israeli airstrikes on February 7.
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Palestinian children in Khan Younis, Gaza, inspect the site of an Israeli strike that damaged a shelter belonging to Doctors Without Borders on February 21.
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Palestinians look out at the destruction after there was an Israeli strike on residential buildings and a mosque in Rafah, Gaza, on February 22.
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Palestinian refugees in Rafah, Gaza, decorate their tents with lanterns on February 29 ahead of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. The United Nations estimates that nearly 2 million people in Gaza — or 9 in 10 people — have been displaced again, at least once, since October 7, 2023.
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Rania Abu Anza holds one of her 5-month-old twins who were killed when an Israeli strike hit their house in Rafah, Gaza, on March 3. Abu Anza’s husband and at least 11 other relatives were killed when the house collapsed. “I screamed for my children and my husband,” she said,
according to the Associated Press. “They were all dead. Their father took them and left me behind.” It took Abu Anza and her husband 10 years and three rounds of in vitro fertilization to become pregnant.
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Displaced Palestinians in Rafah, Gaza, try to get internet service on their phones on March 4.
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Israeli soldiers attend a funeral for Staff Sgt. David Sasson in Netanya, Israel, on March 7. The Israel Defense Forces announced a day earlier that Sasson, 21, had been killed while fighting in southern Gaza.
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Palestinians in Rafah, Gaza, wait to receive food during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan on March 13.
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People rush to humanitarian aid packages being dropped over northern Gaza on April 23.
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A body unearthed at Nasser Hospital is set on a stretcher and covered with flowers before being buried in Khan Younis, Gaza, on April 23.
Nearly 400 bodies were found in mass graves at the hospital following Israeli troops’ withdrawal from the area earlier this month, the Palestinian Civil Defense in Gaza said. The Israel Defense Forces said any suggestion that it buried Palestinian bodies in mass graves was false, and that a grave at the Nasser complex was dug by Palestinians in Gaza some months ago.
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Fire rages at a displacement camp in Rafah, Gaza, following an Israeli airstrike on May 26.
At least 45 people were killed and more than 200 others were injured after a fire broke out at the camp following the strike, and most of them were women and children, according to the Gaza Health Ministry and Palestinian medics. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told the Israeli Knesset it was a
"tragic error" that was under investigation.
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A woman with a rifle shops in a bakery in Tel Aviv, Israel, on June 4.
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Palestinians walk out of rubble covered in dust after an Israeli attack in Deir al-Balah, Gaza, on June 14.
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Palestinians perform Eid al-Adha morning prayers in the courtyard of Gaza City’s historic Omari Mosque on June 16. The mosque was damaged by Israeli bombardment in Gaza.
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Ultra-Orthodox Jewish men block a highway during a protest in Bnei Brak, Israel, on June 27. A Supreme Court ruling on June 25 said the Israeli government
must enlist draft-age ultra-Orthodox Jews into the military, reversing a de facto exemption in place since the country’s founding 76 years ago.
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Palestinian women cry July 10 over the loss of relatives who were killed in an Israeli airstrike that hit a school complex housing displaced people in southern Gaza. Local health officials said
at least 27 people were killed in the strike. The Israeli military said it conducted a strike “near” the Al-Awda school on Tuesday and that it had targeted “a terrorist” who participated in the October 7 attacks.
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Displaced Palestinians travel on a cart after fleeing the western part of Khan Younis, Gaza, following an evacuation order by the Israeli army on August 21.
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A man takes cover from an Israeli strike on the outskirts of Gaza City on September 1.
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People attend the funeral of Hersh Goldberg-Polin in Jerusalem on September 2. Goldberg-Polin, a 23-year-old Israeli American, was one of
six hostages who were found killed a day earlier in Gaza. The Israel Defense Forces said their bodies were found in a Hamas-run tunnel under the city of Rafah, and that they were “brutally” murdered “a short while” before troops were able to reach them. The development sparked protests across Israel, with fresh public anger directed at Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his cabinet for failing to secure a ceasefire-for-hostage deal.
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People in Tel Aviv, Israel, protest against the government of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and call for the release of hostages being held by Hamas on September 7.