PHOTOS: Despair, confusion in Gaza

Published October 17, 2023

A man cries to the heavens, utterly helpless as his loved ones are snatched from him by a cold, cruel artillery shell. A woman, face and hands covered in soot, who escaped death but desperately calls out for her loved ones, her home demolished in Israeli strikes. These are just a few of the photos that are coming of Gaza.

Mourners react next to the bodies of Palestinians killed in Israeli strikes, at a hospital in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, October 17, 2023.—Reuters/Mohammed Salem
Mourners react next to the bodies of Palestinians killed in Israeli strikes, at a hospital in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, October 17, 2023.—Reuters/Mohammed Salem

A Palestinian woman reacts at the site of Israeli strikes on houses, in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip October 17, 2023.—Reuters/Ibraheem Abu Mustafa
A Palestinian woman reacts at the site of Israeli strikes on houses, in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip October 17, 2023.—Reuters/Ibraheem Abu Mustafa

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