Photos: Israel continues to bombard Gaza after Hamas attack
Plumes of smoke could be seen Oct. 28 in the Gaza Strip from Sderot, Israel, as Israeli military officials announced an expanded ground operation to eliminate Hamas.
Gaza’s Hamas-run Health Ministry said the death toll among Palestinians has passed 8,000 — most of them civilians. It’s a toll without precedent in decades of Israeli-Palestinian violence, and it is expected to climb even more rapidly as Israel presses its ground offensive. More than 1,400 people died inside Israel, mainly civilians killed during the initial Hamas massacres.
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Local residents gather Oct. 27 to hold Friday prayers outside the mosque inside the Old City of Nablus in the West Bank
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Mourners transport the 9 bodies of slain Palestinians during a funeral procession after the Israeli assault on the Nour Shams refugee camp near Tulkarem.
Israeli Merkava battle tank units regroup near the southern border with the Gaza Strip on Oct. 14.
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Family members mourn at the burial of Daniel Levy at Yehud Cemetery in Israel on Oct. 15. Levy was killed in Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack on the Beeri kibbutz in Israel.
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Palestinians carry belongings as they leave the Ahli Arab Hospital, which they were using as a shelter, in Gaza City on Oct. 18.
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A “Visit Palestine” poster is visible in a house burned during Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack at the Kibbutz in Be’eri, Israel.
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Soldiers in southern Israel take cover Oct. 14 as they launch mortar rounds toward the Gaza Strip.
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A Palestinian boy lobs a rock at Israeli forces Oct. 13 in the West Bank.
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Bunrian Nongkay, second from left in red, and fellow Thai workers linger outside a shelter after an air siren alert Oct. 12 in Metulla, Israel.
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Jonathan Polin and Rachel Goldberg last saw their son Hersh Goldberg-Polin, 23, on Oct. 6. They and their daughters, including Leebie, right, mounted a campaign seeking his safe return.
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An Israeli self-propelled howitzer fires rounds near the border with Gaza in southern Israel on Oct. 11.
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A salvo of rockets is fired by Palestinian militants from Gaza toward Israel on Oct. 10
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Israeli soldiers on Oct. 10 remove the body of a compatriot, killed during an attack by Hamas militants, in Kfar Aza, south of Israel bordering Gaza Strip.
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People gather Oct. 11 in the courtyard of a morgue by the wrapped bodies of Palestinians killed in an Israeli airstrike in Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip.
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A ball of fire and smoke rises above a building in Gaza City as people on a nearby rooftop watch, at left, during an Israeli airstrike Oct. 7 that hit the Palestine Tower building.
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More rockets are fired toward Israel from the Gaza Strip on Oct. 8, a day after Hamas fighters carried out a multifront attack on Israel.
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A woman cries during the funeral Oct. 9 of Israeli Col. Roi Levy at the Mount Herzl cemetery in Jerusalem. Levy was killed in fighting with Hamas militants who stormed across the blockaded Gaza Strip into nearby Israeli towns.
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Palestinian relatives mourn Oct. 8 over the body of Ahmad Awawda, 19, who was killed in clashes between Hamas militants and Israeli troops near the city of Nablus.
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A plume of smoke rises from an Israeli airstrike on the Gaza Strip on Oct. 9 as Israel relentlessly pounded the enclave.
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Palestinians celebrate after an Israeli tank was destroyed Oct. 7 in an attack by Hamas fighters at the Gaza Strip boundary east of Khan Yunis on Saturday.
