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‘An unprecedented catastrophe’: War in the Gaza Strip

Olivia Harris
1 min read·October 19, 2023 - 4:40PM
News Corp Australia Network

As war rages, casualties mount. Israel has vowed to allow international aid into southern Gaza to help a fraction of the one million people displaced in the past ten days. As each side blames the other for the devastating attack on the Al-Ahli Baptist Hospital in Gaza City, heartbroken civilians bury their loved ones. The UN has warned that “an unprecedented catastrophe is unfolding” in Gaza; here are just a few of those affected. WARNING: GRAPHIC.

 

A young Palestinian girl looks on in the arms of a medical worker after scores of injured people arrive at Al-Shifa Hospital following an air strike on Al-Ahli Baptist Hospital in Gaza City on October 17. Picture: Ali Jadallah/Anadolu via Getty Images
A young Palestinian girl looks on in the arms of a medical worker after scores of injured people arrive at Al-Shifa Hospital following an air strike on Al-Ahli Baptist Hospital in Gaza City on October 17. Picture: Ali Jadallah/Anadolu via Getty Images

 

Mourners grieve during the funeral of Peruvian-Israeli Dr. Daniel Levi Ludmir at Yehud Monosun cemetery near Tel Aiv, Israel. The civilian was reportedly killed while treating the wounded. Picture: Leon Neal/Getty Images
Mourners grieve during the funeral of Peruvian-Israeli Dr. Daniel Levi Ludmir at Yehud Monosun cemetery near Tel Aiv, Israel. The civilian was reportedly killed while treating the wounded. Picture: Leon Neal/Getty Images

 

A man reacts as he holds an injured girl following an Israeli air strike on Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip. Picture: Mohammed Abed/AFP
A man reacts as he holds an injured girl following an Israeli air strike on Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip. Picture: Mohammed Abed/AFP

 

Osa Me'ir (C) reacts after discovering that the second of her two twin brothers was confirmed killed during the Hamas attack in Tel Aviv, Israel. Picture: Leon Neal/Getty Images
Osa Me'ir (C) reacts after discovering that the second of her two twin brothers was confirmed killed during the Hamas attack in Tel Aviv, Israel. Picture: Leon Neal/Getty Images

 

Anadolu Agency photojournalist Ali Jadallah (R), kisses the hand of his brother, who died in Israeli air strike in the Sheikh Radwan district of Gaza City. Picture: Mustafa Hassona/Anadolu via Getty Images
Anadolu Agency photojournalist Ali Jadallah (R), kisses the hand of his brother, who died in Israeli air strike in the Sheikh Radwan district of Gaza City. Picture: Mustafa Hassona/Anadolu via Getty Images

 

Mourners grieve during a funeral of an Israeli civilian near Tel Aiv, Israel. Picture: Leon Neal/Getty Images
Mourners grieve during a funeral of an Israeli civilian near Tel Aiv, Israel. Picture: Leon Neal/Getty Images

 

People gather around bodies of Palestinians killed in an attack on the Al-Ahli hospital. At least 500 have been confirmed dead in the air strike. Picture: Dawood Nemer/AFP
People gather around bodies of Palestinians killed in an attack on the Al-Ahli hospital. At least 500 have been confirmed dead in the air strike. Picture: Dawood Nemer/AFP

 

Bodies of civilians killed in Hamas attack are collected, identified, placed in temporary storage and waiting to be claimed by family members at a military base in Ramla, Israel. Picture: Marcus Yam/Los Angeles Times
Bodies of civilians killed in Hamas attack are collected, identified, placed in temporary storage and waiting to be claimed by family members at a military base in Ramla, Israel. Picture: Marcus Yam/Los Angeles Times

 

People look at the portraits of the Israeli captives in Gaza. Picture: Mostafa Alkharouf/Anadolu via Getty Images
People look at the portraits of the Israeli captives in Gaza. Picture: Mostafa Alkharouf/Anadolu via Getty Images

 

An injured Palestinian child is seen in an intensive care unit at Nasser Hospital. Picture: Ahmad Hasaballah/Getty Images
An injured Palestinian child is seen in an intensive care unit at Nasser Hospital. Picture: Ahmad Hasaballah/Getty Images

 

Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu greets US President Joe Biden upon his arrival at Tel Aviv's Ben Gurion airport. Picture: Brendan Smialowski/AFP
Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu greets US President Joe Biden upon his arrival at Tel Aviv's Ben Gurion airport. Picture: Brendan Smialowski/AFP

 

People stand over bodies of Palestinians killed in air strikes on the Al-Ahli Baptist Hospital in central Gaza. Picture: Dawood Nemer/ AFP
People stand over bodies of Palestinians killed in air strikes on the Al-Ahli Baptist Hospital in central Gaza. Picture: Dawood Nemer/ AFP

 

The father of Naor Hassidim, 22, who was killed with his girlfriend during the attack on kibbutz Kfar Aza, grieves during his burial during the funeral in Ashdod, Israel. Picture: Alexi J. Rosenfeld/Getty Images
The father of Naor Hassidim, 22, who was killed with his girlfriend during the attack on kibbutz Kfar Aza, grieves during his burial during the funeral in Ashdod, Israel. Picture: Alexi J. Rosenfeld/Getty Images

 

An aerial view of people burying relatives at a cemetery in Deir Al-Balah, following Israeli attacks on Gaza. Picture: Ashraf Amra/Anadolu via Getty Images
An aerial view of people burying relatives at a cemetery in Deir Al-Balah, following Israeli attacks on Gaza. Picture: Ashraf Amra/Anadolu via Getty Images

 

A picture taken from the Israeli city of Sderot shows a salvo of rockets fired towards Israel from the Gaza Strip. Picture: Thomas Coex/AFP
A picture taken from the Israeli city of Sderot shows a salvo of rockets fired towards Israel from the Gaza Strip. Picture: Thomas Coex/AFP

 

Palestinians scour destroyed buildings in search of victims following an Israeli air strike at the Rafah border crossing. Picture: Mohammed Abed/AFP
Palestinians scour destroyed buildings in search of victims following an Israeli air strike at the Rafah border crossing. Picture: Mohammed Abed/AFP

 

Israeli mourners duck for cover upon hearing sirens warning of incoming rockets during the funeral of Tom Godo, who was killed during the Hamas attack last week. Picture: Gil Cohen/Magen/AFP
Israeli mourners duck for cover upon hearing sirens warning of incoming rockets during the funeral of Tom Godo, who was killed during the Hamas attack last week. Picture: Gil Cohen/Magen/AFP

 

A Palestinian child injured in an Israeli air strike receives treatment at the Nasser Hospital in Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip. Picture: Mahmud Hams/ AFP
A Palestinian child injured in an Israeli air strike receives treatment at the Nasser Hospital in Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip. Picture: Mahmud Hams/ AFP

 

A Palestinian woman reacts as others rush to look for victims in the rubble of a building following an Israeli strike in Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip. Picture: Mahmud Hams/AFP
A Palestinian woman reacts as others rush to look for victims in the rubble of a building following an Israeli strike in Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip. Picture: Mahmud Hams/AFP

 

Close friends and family members grieve the loss of 1st Lt. Amitai Granot, who was killed in a clash with Hezbollah in northern Israel the previous day, during his funeral service in Jerusalem. Picture: Leon Neal/Getty Images
Close friends and family members grieve the loss of 1st Lt. Amitai Granot, who was killed in a clash with Hezbollah in northern Israel the previous day, during his funeral service in Jerusalem. Picture: Leon Neal/Getty Images

 

A Palestinian civil defence officer injured in Israeli attacks is given CPR on a stretcher at Al-Shifa Hospital in the Gaza Strip. Picture: Ali Jadallah/Anadolu via Getty Images
A Palestinian civil defence officer injured in Israeli attacks is given CPR on a stretcher at Al-Shifa Hospital in the Gaza Strip. Picture: Ali Jadallah/Anadolu via Getty Images

 

People mourn by the coffins of five members of the Kutz family, who were killed in the Hamas attack on their kibbutz of Kfar Aza. Picture: Oren Ziv/AFP
People mourn by the coffins of five members of the Kutz family, who were killed in the Hamas attack on their kibbutz of Kfar Aza. Picture: Oren Ziv/AFP

 

Injured Palestinians receive medical attention at Al-Shifa Hospital. Photo: Mohammad Abu Elsebah/dpa
Injured Palestinians receive medical attention at Al-Shifa Hospital. Photo: Mohammad Abu Elsebah/dpa

 

A Palestinian man shouts while protecting his child outside the Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City. Picture: Mahmud Hams/AFP
A Palestinian man shouts while protecting his child outside the Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City. Picture: Mahmud Hams/AFP

 

Israelis wait to board a bus as they evacuate from the southern Israeli city of Sderot to safer areas in the state of Israel. Picture: Jack Guez/AFP
Israelis wait to board a bus as they evacuate from the southern Israeli city of Sderot to safer areas in the state of Israel. Picture: Jack Guez/AFP

 

Israeli Merkava battle tank units regroup near the border of Gaza, in the southern part of Israel. Picture: Marcus Yam/Los Angeles Times
Israeli Merkava battle tank units regroup near the border of Gaza, in the southern part of Israel. Picture: Marcus Yam/Los Angeles Times

 

People search through the rubble of a building after an Israeli strike in Khan Yunis. Picture: Mahmud Hams/AFP
People search through the rubble of a building after an Israeli strike in Khan Yunis. Picture: Mahmud Hams/AFP

 

Injured children wait for medical treatment after they were brought to Nasser Hospital in Khan Yunis. Picture: Abed Zagout/Anadolu via Getty Images
Injured children wait for medical treatment after they were brought to Nasser Hospital in Khan Yunis. Picture: Abed Zagout/Anadolu via Getty Images

 

Family, and friends of Yuval Solomon, who was killed in Hamas’ attack on Kfar Aaz, mourn during his funeral. Picture: Amir Levy/Getty Images
Family, and friends of Yuval Solomon, who was killed in Hamas’ attack on Kfar Aaz, mourn during his funeral. Picture: Amir Levy/Getty Images

 

A Palestinian paramedic carries a child, who was injured in an Israeli air strike, at the Nasser Hospital in Khan Yunis. Picture: Mahmud Hams/AFP
A Palestinian paramedic carries a child, who was injured in an Israeli air strike, at the Nasser Hospital in Khan Yunis. Picture: Mahmud Hams/AFP

 

Palestinians look at covered bodies killed in an Israeli air strike outside a hospital in Khan Yunis. Picture: Mohammed Adnan/AFP
Palestinians look at covered bodies killed in an Israeli air strike outside a hospital in Khan Yunis. Picture: Mohammed Adnan/AFP

 

A Palestinian youth fills a bucket with water at the Rafah refugee camp in the southern Gaza Strip. Israel has claimed that it is restarting the water supply to parts of the Gaza Strip amid concern of mass dehydration. Picture: Mohammed Abed/AFP
A Palestinian youth fills a bucket with water at the Rafah refugee camp in the southern Gaza Strip. Israel has claimed that it is restarting the water supply to parts of the Gaza Strip amid concern of mass dehydration. Picture: Mohammed Abed/AFP

 

Doctors examine children injured as a result of Israeli attacks at Nasser Hospital in Khan Yunis. Hospitals are overflowing as medicine and fuel are on the brink of exhaustion. Picture: Abed Zagout/Anadolu via Getty Images
Doctors examine children injured as a result of Israeli attacks at Nasser Hospital in Khan Yunis. Hospitals are overflowing as medicine and fuel are on the brink of exhaustion. Picture: Abed Zagout/Anadolu via Getty Images

 

Employees of the National Center for Forensic Medicine transport a body, killed in the attack by Hamas militants on southern Israel, ahead of being identified in Tel Aviv. Picture: Ahmad Gharabli/AFP
Employees of the National Center for Forensic Medicine transport a body, killed in the attack by Hamas militants on southern Israel, ahead of being identified in Tel Aviv. Picture: Ahmad Gharabli/AFP

 

An Israeli soldier walks past burnt houses in Kibbutz Beeri near the border with Gaza. Picture: Menahem Kahana/AFP
An Israeli soldier walks past burnt houses in Kibbutz Beeri near the border with Gaza. Picture: Menahem Kahana/AFP

 

Palestinian citizens inspect damage to their homes caused by Israeli air strikes in Gaza City. Picture: Ahmad Hasaballah/Getty Images
Palestinian citizens inspect damage to their homes caused by Israeli air strikes in Gaza City. Picture: Ahmad Hasaballah/Getty Images

 

Israeli army soldiers ride in the turret of a Merkava battle tank deploying along the border with the Gaza Strip in southern Israel. Picture: Jack Guez/AFP
Israeli army soldiers ride in the turret of a Merkava battle tank deploying along the border with the Gaza Strip in southern Israel. Picture: Jack Guez/AFP

 

A Palestinian man carries a wounded girl after an Israeli air strike on the Rafah refugee camp. Picture: Mohammed Abed/AFP
A Palestinian man carries a wounded girl after an Israeli air strike on the Rafah refugee camp. Picture: Mohammed Abed/AFP

 

A man carries the remains of an Israeli air strike victim wrapped in a blanket while walking through rubble in Rafah. Picture: Said Khatib/AFP
A man carries the remains of an Israeli air strike victim wrapped in a blanket while walking through rubble in Rafah. Picture: Said Khatib/AFP

 

Friends and family mourn by the coffins of victims from Hamas’ attack on the kibbutz of Kfar Aza, during their funeral in Gan Yavne town in central Israel. Picture: Oren Ziv/AFP
Friends and family mourn by the coffins of victims from Hamas’ attack on the kibbutz of Kfar Aza, during their funeral in Gan Yavne town in central Israel. Picture: Oren Ziv/AFP

 

A member of the public receives weapons training from a tutor at a shooting range in Israel. Since the Hamas attack, the training centre has seen an increase in requests for both civilians and military services. Picture: Leon Neal/Getty Images
A member of the public receives weapons training from a tutor at a shooting range in Israel. Since the Hamas attack, the training centre has seen an increase in requests for both civilians and military services. Picture: Leon Neal/Getty Images

 

Palestinians escape after Israeli air strikes on their homes in Gaza City. Picture: Ali Jadallah/Anadolu via Getty Images
Palestinians escape after Israeli air strikes on their homes in Gaza City. Picture: Ali Jadallah/Anadolu via Getty Images

 

Families arrive with suitcases to board buses out of Sderot, Israel after mass evacuation orders were issued. Picture: Alexi J. Rosenfeld/Getty Images
Families arrive with suitcases to board buses out of Sderot, Israel after mass evacuation orders were issued. Picture: Alexi J. Rosenfeld/Getty Images

 

Israeli soldiers block their ears as a M109 155mm self-propelled howitzer fires rounds from near the Israeli border with Gaza in southern Israel. Picture: Menahem Kahana/AFP
Israeli soldiers block their ears as a M109 155mm self-propelled howitzer fires rounds from near the Israeli border with Gaza in southern Israel. Picture: Menahem Kahana/AFP

 

A Palestinian man uses a fire extinguisher to douse a fire following an Israeli strike in Khan Yunis. Picture: Yasser Qudih/AFP
A Palestinian man uses a fire extinguisher to douse a fire following an Israeli strike in Khan Yunis. Picture: Yasser Qudih/AFP

 

Flyers dropped by the Israeli military float down over Gaza City like ash. On them, a warning to residents to flee
Flyers dropped by the Israeli military float down over Gaza City like ash. On them, a warning to residents to flee "immediately" to the south. Picture: Mohammed Abed/AFP

 

A Palestinian boy carries his pet bird in a cage as families evacuate their homes following an Israeli attack on the Rafah refugee camp. Picture: Mohammed Abed/AFP
A Palestinian boy carries his pet bird in a cage as families evacuate their homes following an Israeli attack on the Rafah refugee camp. Picture: Mohammed Abed/AFP

 

A Palestinian boy kneels to kisses the ground after being brought to a hospital following an Israeli strike in Khan Yunis. Picture: Mahmud Hams/AFP
A Palestinian boy kneels to kisses the ground after being brought to a hospital following an Israeli strike in Khan Yunis. Picture: Mahmud Hams/AFP

 

A bit of normality is offered to internally displaced Palestinians in the form of a free shave in the grounds of the Khan Yunis Hospital. Picture: Mahmud Hams/AFP
A bit of normality is offered to internally displaced Palestinians in the form of a free shave in the grounds of the Khan Yunis Hospital. Picture: Mahmud Hams/AFP

 

Israeli army soldiers patrol an undisclosed area in northern Israel bordering Lebanon. Picture: Aris Messinis/AFP
Israeli army soldiers patrol an undisclosed area in northern Israel bordering Lebanon. Picture: Aris Messinis/AFP

 

Volunteers load food and supplies onto aid convoy trucks for Gaza in North Sinai, Egypt. Picture: Mahmoud Khaled/Getty Images
Volunteers load food and supplies onto aid convoy trucks for Gaza in North Sinai, Egypt. Picture: Mahmoud Khaled/Getty Images

 

A Palestinian woman covers her sleeping children with a blanket as they take refuge in a United Nations school in the Rafah refugee camp. Picture: Mohammed Abed/AFP
A Palestinian woman covers her sleeping children with a blanket as they take refuge in a United Nations school in the Rafah refugee camp. Picture: Mohammed Abed/AFP

 

Injured Palestinians mourn their losses after being taken to Al-Shifa Hospital following an air strike on the Al-Ahli Baptist Hospital in Gaza City on October 17. Picture: Ali Jadallah/Anadolu via Getty Images
Injured Palestinians mourn their losses after being taken to Al-Shifa Hospital following an air strike on the Al-Ahli Baptist Hospital in Gaza City on October 17. Picture: Ali Jadallah/Anadolu via Getty Images
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