Most powerful images from the Israel-Hamas war

Israel, reeling from the deadliest attack on its territory in half a century, formally declared war on Hamas Sunday October 8, 2023.

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Armed Hamas militant leads a man at gunpoint at the Supernova music festival, near Kibbutz Reim in the Negev desert in southern Israel, October 7, 2023.

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Hamas fighters capture an Israeli civilian from Kibbutz Kfar Azza on Saturday, Oct. 7, 2023.

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Hamas fighter takes a woman hostage on October 7, 2023 in Israel.

Yaffa Adar, an 85-year-old grandma was kidnapped from Kibbutz Kfar Azza on October 7, 2023.

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A woman identified as Noa Argamani, was taken hostage from a music festival in southern Israel and taken into Gaza on October 7, 2023.

Israel's Iron Dome anti-missile system intercepts rockets launched from the Gaza Strip, as seen from the city of Ashkelon, Israel, October 9, 2023.

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A salvo of rockets is fired from Gaza as an Israeli missile launched from the Iron Dome defense missile system attempts to intercept them, over the city of Netivot in southern Israel on October 8, 2023.

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Rockets fired from Gaza City are intercepted by the Israeli Iron Dome defense missile system in the early hours of October 8, 2023.

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A paramedic holds a little girl with her face full of blood and dirt from Israeli airstrikes in Gaza City, October 9, 2023.

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Palestinians remove a dead body from the rubble of a building after an Israeli airstrike on the Jebaliya refugee camp on October 9, 2023.

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A Palestinian man reacts next to the body of his nephew, who was killed in Israeli airstrikes on the Soussi Mosque in Gaza City, October 9, 2023.

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Palestinians evacuate the area following an Israeli airstrike on the Sousi mosque in Gaza City on October 9, 2023.

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A paramedic holds a girl crying after being pulled from the scene after a bombing of the Ahmed Yassin Mosque by Israeli planes in Gaza, October 9, 2023.

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Palestinians remove a dead body from the rubble of a building after an Israeli airstrike on the Jebaliya refugee camp, October 9, 2023.

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Palestinians carry an injured child at Al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City, October 9, 2023.

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CNN journalist, Clarissa Ward, takes cover during a live broadcast on the Israel-Gaza border, October 9, 2023.

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Smoke billows after a strike by Israel on the port of Gaza City on October 10, 2023.

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Smoke billows after a strike by Israel on the port of Gaza City on October 10, 2023.

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Rockets fired from the Gaza City (R) being intercepted by Israel's Iron Dome defence missile system (L) on October 10, 2023.

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Flames and smoke billow during Israeli strikes in Gaza, October 9, 2023.

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Rockets are fired from Gaza towards Israel on October 10, 2023.

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A medic runs as he carries an injured Palestinian child to ambulance in Gaza, October 9, 2023.

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Flames and smoke billow during Israeli strikes in Gaza, October 9, 2023.

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A Palestinian man carries a wounded child at Al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City, October 9, 2023.

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Flames and smoke billow during Israeli strikes in Gaza, October 9, 2023.

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Israeli soldiers stand near the body of a Hamas militant in Kfar Aza, in the south of Israel, bordering Gaza Strip on October 10, 2023.

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Israeli soldiers in Kfar Aza, stand by an engine from a hang glider that Hamas militants used a few days earlier in an attack on this kibbutz near the border with Gaza, on October 10, 2023.

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An Israeli soldier holds a rescued dog as he takes position near a bomb shelter in Kibbutz Kfar Aza, in southern Israel, October 10, 2023.

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An IDF soldier walks past a house that was shot at and destroyed days earlier in an attack by Hamas militants on this kibbutz near the border with Gaza, on October 10, 2023 in Kfar Aza, Israel.

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Gunshots and blood stains are seen on a door and walls of a house where civilians were killed days earlier in an attack by Hamas militants on this kibbutz near the border with Gaza, on October 10, 2023 in Kfar Aza, Israel.

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Israeli soldiers prepare to remove the bodies of their compatriots, killed during an attack by the Palestinian militants, in Kfar Aza, south of Israel bordering Gaza Strip.

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IDF soldiers guard an area around Kibbutz Kfar Aza where dozens of civilians were killed days earlier in an attack by Hamas militants on this near the border with Gaza, on October 10, 2023 in Kfar Aza, Israel.

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President Joe Biden meets with senior staff in the Situation Room of the White House, picture issued October 10, 2023.

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Joe Biden speaks October 10, 2023, in the State Dining Room of the White House in Washington, about the war between Israel and the militant Palestinian group Hamas.

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This handout satellite picture released by Maxar Technologies on October 10, 2023 shows smoke rising after an airstrike by Israeli forces on Gaza City.

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This handout satellite picture released by Maxar Technologies on October 10, 2023 shows destroyed buildings in Gaza City after an Israeli strike.

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The Eiffel Tower is illuminated with the colors of Israel after a demonstration in a show of support for Israel, October 9, 2023 in Paris.

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Hungarian demonstrators wave flags of Hungary and Israel during a rally in support of Israel at the bank of the Danube river in Budapest, Hungary, on October 10, 2023.

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People take part in a torchlight procession organized by Il Foglio for Israel near the Arco di Tito in Rome, Italy, October 10, 2023.

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Israeli soldiers carry the body of a Hamas militant in Kibbutz Be'eri, October 11, 2023.

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An Israeli soldier stands over the body of a Hamas militant in Kibbutz Be'eri on October 11, 2023. The kibbutz was overrun by Hamas militants from nearby Gaza Strip Saturday, who killed and captured many Israelis.

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Smoke billows following Israeli strikes, in Gaza City, October 11, 2023.

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Smoke billows following Israeli strikes, in Gaza City, October 11, 2023.

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Palestinians carry a casualty on rubble in the aftermath of Israeli strikes, in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip October 11, 2023.

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An injured Palestinian at Al-Shefa hospital in Gaza City, October 11, 2023.

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An Israeli artillery unit fires towards Gaza along the border in southern Israel, October 11, 2023.

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A view of the rubble of buildings hit by an Israeli airstrike, in Jabalia, Gaza strip, October 11, 2023.

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A man carries a wounded Palestinian girl as a woman reacts at the site of Israeli strikes on a house, in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip October 11, 2023.

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Smoke rises following Israeli airstrikes in Gaza City, October 11, 2023.

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A Palestinian boy who was wounded in Israeli strikes on a house sits in an ambulance, in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip October 11, 2023.

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Smoke rises following Israeli airstrikes in Gaza City, October 11, 2023.

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Palestinian children injured in Israeli strikes are brought to a hospital, in Gaza City, October 11, 2023.

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An Israeli mobile artillery unit fired a shell from southern Israel towards the Gaza Strip, in a position a near the Israel Gaza border, Israel, October 11, 2023.

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Destruction from Israeli aerial bombardment is seen in Gaza City, October 11, 2023.

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Palestinians evacuate wounded in Israeli aerial bombing on Jabaliya, near Gaza City, October 11, 2023.

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Palestinians evacuate wounded in Israeli aerial bombing on Jabaliya, near Gaza City, October 11, 2023.

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A Palestinian walks through the destruction by Israeli bombing in Gaza City on October 11, 2023.

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