AP PHOTOS: Funeral processions and leveled neighborhoods in expanding Israel-Palestinian war
AP PHOTOS: Funeral processions and leveled neighborhoods in expanding Israel-Palestinian war
Buildings turned to rubble. Body bags in the streets. Wailing sirens and shrieking rockets.
As the latest Israeli-Palestinian war entered a fourth day of war Tuesday, scenes showed both an expanding offensive and the conflict’s sorrowful results.
Israeli soldiers and Hamas fighters geared up and moved into position. Flag-draped coffins were carried by mourners at funeral processions. The images of the devastation on the ground showed windows shattered by bullets and neighborhoods leveled by blasts.
The war is expected to escalate with at least 2,100 lives lost so far.
Damaged cars are scattered in the area of the rave party site near the Kibbutz Re’im, Israel, close to the border with the Gaza Strip, on Oct.10, 2023. Israel’s rescue service Zaka said paramedics had recovered hundreds of bodies of people killed in a surprise attack by Hamas militants Saturday. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)
Palestinians, including some journalists, carry the bodies of two Palestinian reporters, Mohammed Soboh and Said al-Tawil, who were killed by an Israeli airstrike in Gaza City, Tuesday, Oct. 10, 2023. The militant Hamas rulers of the Gaza Strip carried out an unprecedented attack on Israel Saturday, killing over 1,000 people and taking captives. Israel launched heavy retaliatory airstrikes on the enclave, killing hundreds of Palestinians. (AP Photo/Fatima Shbair)
Israeli soldiers carry the flag-covered coffin of Maj. Tal Cohen during his funeral at the Givat Shaul cemetery in Jerusalem on Oct. 10, 2023. The latest Israel-Palestinian war reverberated around the world Tuesday, as foreign governments tried to determine how many of their citizens were dead, missing or in need of medical help or flights home. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)
Palestinians walk amid the rubble following Israeli airstrikes that razed swaths of a neighborhood in Gaza City on Oct. 10, 2023. The militant Hamas rulers of the Gaza Strip carried out an unprecedented attack on Israel Saturday, killing over 1,000 people and taking captives. Israel launched heavy retaliatory airstrikes on the enclave, killing hundreds of Palestinians. (AP Photo/Fatima Shbair)
A neighborhood in Gaza City lies in rubble on Oct. 10, 2023, after it was hit by an Israeli airstrike. Israel launched intense airstrikes in Gaza after the territory’s militant rulers carried out an unprecedented attack on Israel Saturday, killing over 1,000 people and taking captives. Hundreds of Palestinians have been killed in the airstrikes. (AP Photo/Fatima Shbair)
The wife, left, and sister of Hezbollah fighter Ali Ftouni, who was killed by Israeli shelling, mourn at his funeral procession in Kherbet Selem village, south Lebanon, on Oct. 10, 2023. The Iran-backed group announced Monday night that three militants died following heavy Israeli shelling in border towns across southern Lebanon. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)
A Hezbollah fighter carries the coffin of his comrade who was killed by Israeli shelling, as he shouts slogans during his funeral procession in Kherbet Selem village, south Lebanon, on Oct. 10, 2023. The Iran-backed group announced on Monday night that three militants died following heavy Israeli shelling in border towns across southern Lebanon. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)
Mourners gather as the body of Israeli soldier Benjamin Loeb, a dual Israeli-French citizen is lowered into a grave in Jerusalem, Tuesday, Oct. 10, 2023. Loeb was killed on Saturday as the militant Hamas rulers of the Gaza Strip carried out an unprecedented, multi-front attack on Israel. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)
Hezbollah fighters attend the funeral procession of their two comrades who were killed by Israeli shelling, in Kherbet Selem village, south Lebanon, Tuesday, Oct. 10, 2023. The Iran-backed group announced on Monday night that three militants died following heavy Israeli shelling in border towns across southern Lebanon. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)