Since Hamas fighters burst across the barrier fence and killed 1,300 Israelis on Saturday, Israel has responded with the most intensive air strikes of its 75-year conflict with the Palestinians.
Thousands of Gaza residents have started abandoning homes to escape after Israel ordered more than a million people to leave the northern half of the Gaza Strip within 24 hours.
Palestinians break into the Israeli side of Israel-Gaza border fence after Hamas gunmen infiltrated areas of southern Israel, October 7. REUTERS/Mohammed Fayq Abu Mostafa
A view shows houses and buildings destroyed by Israeli strikes in Gaza City, October 10. REUTERS/Shadi Tabatibi
A dove flies over the debris of houses destroyed in Israeli strikes, in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, October 11. REUTERS/Ibraheem Abu Mustafa
A rescuer reacts as he works with others to remove Palestinian casualties from under the rubble of a house destroyed in Israeli strikes, in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, October 9. REUTERS/Ibraheem Abu Mustafa
The daughter of Zakaria Abu Maamar, a member of Hamas’ political office, is comforted as she cries during her father’s funeral, after he was killed in an air strike, in Khan Younis, in southern Gaza Strip, October 10. REUTERS/Ibraheem Abu Mustafa
CIVILIANS TOLD TO FLEE SOUTH
Israel’s military directed the evacuation on Friday of 1.1 million civilians living in Gaza City ahead of a feared Israel ground offensive. The directive came on the heels of what the United Nations said was a warning they received from Israel to evacuate people living in the north of Gaza within 24 hours.
Palestinians flee their houses heading toward the southern part of Gaza Strip after Israel’s call for more than 1 million civilians in northern Gaza to move south within 24 hours, amid the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in Gaza City October 13. REUTERS/Ahmed Zakot
On Friday, the Israeli government ordered more than one million Palestinian civilians to leave the northern parts of Gaza and head south, possibly ahead of a ground invasion. October 13. REUTERS/Ahmed Zakot
Families of staff of international organizations shelter at a United Nations center after United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees said it relocated its central operations center to the south of Gaza Strip after Israel’s call for more than 1 million civilians in northern Gaza to move south within 24 hours, amid the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip October 13. REUTERS/Ibraheem Abu Mustafa
CONCERNS GROW OF ISRAELI GROUND OFFENSIVE INTO GAZA
Israeli military has amassed troops at the border with Gaza over the course of the week and cites its main objective remains stripping away the military capabilities of Hamas.
Israeli tanks and military vehicles take position near Israel’s border with the Gaza Strip, in southern Israel, October 13. REUTERS/Violeta Santos Moura
An Israeli tank fires near Israel’s border with the Gaza Strip, in southern Israel, October 12, 2023. REUTERS/Ronen Zvulun
