AP PHOTOS: Israel-Hamas war’s 9th day leaves survivors bloody and grief stricken
The ninth day of the latest Israel-Hamas war was defined by the small forms of dead children wrapped in sheets, outstretched hands clamoring for bread and the hurriedly packed suitcases of evacuees.
The war has claimed more than 4,000 lives since Hamas launched an incursion into Israel on Oct. 7.
A Palestinian girl wounded during an Israeli airstrike receives medical treatment at al-Aqsa Hospital in Deir el-Balah, central Gaza Strip, Sunday, Oct. 15, 2023. (AP Photo/Adel Hana)
Mourners on Sunday draped an Israeli flag over the slain body of Antonio Macías, who died when Hamas unleashed its attack on thousands of Jews in southern Israel. And, elsewhere, children tiny enough for one person to carry with little effort were among the dead loaded onto a truck outside al-Aqsa Hospital in Deir el-Balah, central Gaza Strip.
A woman brought only a few bundles with her as she fled during the start of a voluntary evacuation of the southern Israeli town of Sderot, located near the border with the Gaza Strip, ahead of an expected ground offensive.
A crowd of Palestinians reached out desperately for bread at a bakery in Khan Younis, Gaza Strip. Israel is preventing entry of supplies from Egypt to Gaza’s 2.3 million people.
Smoke rises following an Israeli airstrike in the Gaza Strip, as seen from southern Israel, Sunday, Oct. 15, 2023. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)
Mourners carry the body of Aviya Genut during a funeral in Kfar Saba, near Tel Aviv, Israel, Sunday, Oct. 15, 2023. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)
Israeli police extinguish a fire at a site struck by a rocket from the Gaza Strip, in the town of Sderot, southern Israel, Sunday, Oct. 15, 2023. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)
Israelis carry their belongings as they evacuate from the southern Israeli town of Sderot, located near the border with the Gaza Strip, Sunday, Oct. 15, 2023. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)
A crowd of Palestinians presses up against a bakery to buy bread in Khan Younis, Gaza Strip, Sunday, Oct, 15, 2023. (AP Photo/Fatima Shbair)
Palestinian children look at the building of the Zanon family, destroyed in Israeli airstrikes in Rafah, Gaza Strip, Saturday, Oct. 14, 2023. (AP Photo/Hatem Ali)
An Israeli mobile artillery unit fires a shell from southern Israel towards the Gaza Strip, in a position near the Israel-Gaza border, Sunday, Oct. 15, 2023. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)
A Palestinian man wounded in an Israeli air strike arrives at al-Aqsa Hospital in Deir el-Balah City, Gaza Strip, Saturday, Oct. 14, 2023. (AP Photo/Hatem Moussa)
A Palestinian woman kisses the sheet-covered body of a child killed during an Israeli airstrike, Sunday, Oct. 15, 2023, outside al-Aqsa Hospital in Deir el-Balah, central Gaza Strip. (AP Photo/Adel Hana)
The bodies of people killed during an Israeli airstrike are loaded onto a truck outside al-Aqsa Hospital in Deir el-Balah, central Gaza Strip, Sunday, Oct. 15, 2023. (AP Photo/Adel Hana)
A man mourns during the funeral of Antonio Macias, killed by Hamas militants while attending a music festival in southern Israel, at Pardes Haim cemetery in Kfar Saba, Israel, Sunday, Oct. 15, 2023. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)
Israeli armored personnel carriers head toward the border with the Gaza Strip in southern Israel, Sunday, Oct. 15, 2023. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)
A fire burns on the Israeli side of the border with Lebanon following explosions, Sunday, Oct. 15, 2023. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)
An Israeli soldier walks during a rainfall near the Israeli border with Lebanon, on Sunday, Oct. 15, 2023. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)
Palestinian mourners carry the body of Akram Dweikat, 17, killed in clashes with Israeli forces, during his funeral in the West Bank city of Nablus, Sunday, Oct. 15, 2023. (AP Photo/Majdi Muhammad)
Antonio Macías’ mother cries over her son’s body, covered with the Israeli flag, at Pardes Haim cemetery in Kfar Saba, Israel, Sunday, Oct. 15, 2023. Macias was killed when Hamas unleashed its attack on thousands of Jews attending a music festival in southern Israel earlier this month. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)