AP PHOTOS: Rockets sail and tanks roll in Israeli-Palestinian war’s 5th day
Updated 12:30 PM PDT, October 11, 2023
Smoke rises from Gaza City following Israeli airstrikes on Oct. 11, 2023. (AP Photo/Adel Hana)
A Palestinian mother kneels beside the body of her dead son. Israelis crouch beside stone walls to shield themselves from rockets.
As Israelis and Palestinians endured a fifth day of bloodshed Wednesday, sorrow and fear were evident on both sides of the conflict.
Rubble litters a street between smoldering buildings hit by an Israeli airstrike in Jabaliya, Gaza Strip, on Oct. 11, 2023. (AP Photo/Hatem Moussa)
Israeli tanks rolled toward the Lebanese border as rockets sailed toward Israel from the Gaza Strip. Entire Palestinian neighborhoods were reduced to smoldering shells of buildings and those injured in Israeli airstrikes were rushed off on stretchers. In Israel, the bereft gathered for funerals of those killed in weekend Palestinian attacks that spurred the war.
Nightfall plunged much of the Gaza Strip into darkness, hiding scenes of mounting suffering as the territory’s only power station ran out of fuel.
Rockets are fired toward Israel from the Gaza Strip on Oct. 11, 2023. (AP Photo/Fatima Shbair)
People take cover from the incoming rocket fire from the Gaza Strip in Ashkelon, Israel, on Oct. 11, 2023. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)
Israelis look at the damage caused by rocket fire from the Gaza Strip in Ashkelon, Israel, on Oct. 11, 2023. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)
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An Israeli soldier walks past a house in Kibbutz Be’eri on Oct. 11, 2023, just days after it was destroyed by Hamas militants from nearby Gaza Strip in an attack in which they killed and captured many Israelis. (AP Photo/Baz Ratner)
Mourners attend the funeral of May Naim, 24, in Gan Haim, central Israel, on Oct. 11, 2023. Naim and at least 260 other Israelis were killed by Hamas militants on Saturday at a rave near Kibbutz Re’im, as the militant Hamas rulers from the Gaza Strip carried out an unprecedented, multi-front attack that killed over 1,000 Israelis. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)
An Israeli mobile artillery unit fires a shell from southern Israel toward the Gaza Strip, in a position near the border on Oct. 11, 2023. (AP Photo/Erik Marmor)
Palestinians evacuate a man wounded during an Israeli aerial bombardment of Jabaliya, near Gaza City, on Oct. 11, 2023. (AP Photo/Mohammad Al Masri)
A person injured in an Israeli bombing is brought to a hospital in Gaza City on Oct. 11, 2023. (AP Photo/Fatima Shbair)
Israelis take cover from incoming rocket fire from the Gaza Strip in Ashkelon, Israel, on Oct. 11, 2023. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)
The mother of Seliman Abu Anza, who was killed by an Israeli airstrike, touches his face during his funeral in Khan Younis, Gaza Strip, on Oct. 11, 2023. (AP Photo/Hatem Ali)
Mourners grieve beside the body of Mapal Adam during her funeral in Tel Aviv, Israel, on Oct. 11, 2023. Adam was killed by Hamas militants on Saturday as they carried out an unprecedented, multi-front attack that killed over 1,000 Israelis. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)
Palestinians gather around the bodies of people killed in an Israeli airstrike during their funeral in Khan Younis, Gaza Strip, on Oct. 11, 2023. (AP Photo/Hatem Ali)
An Israeli soldier stands over the body of a Hamas militant in Kibbutz Be’eri on Oct. 11, 2023. The kibbutz was overrun on Saturday by Hamas militants from nearby Gaza Strip who killed and captured many Israelis. (AP Photo/Baz Ratner)
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An Israeli woman reacts to incoming rocket fire from the Gaza Strip in Ashkelon, Israel, on Oct. 11, 2023. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)
Israeli tanks are stationed near the border with Lebanon on Oct. 11, 2023. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)
Rockets are fired toward Israel from the Gaza Strip, on Oct. 10, 2023. (AP Photo/Hatem Moussa)
