Sun 14, January

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100 days of Israel-Gaza war: strife and tragedy

Over the past 100 days, Israel’s relentless bombardment and ground assault of Gaza has killed nearly 24,000 Palestinians – roughly one percent of the besieged strip’s population of 2.3 million.

Wounded Palestinians wait for treatment at al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, central Gaza Strip, after arriving from al-Ahli hospital following an explosion there. [Abed Khaled/AP Photo] Fire and smoke rise following an Israeli airstrike on Gaza City. [Fatima Shbair/AP Photo] Palestinians inspect the rubble of the Yassin Mosque, destroyed after it was hit by an Israeli air strike on the Shati refugee camp in Gaza City. [Adel Hana/AP Photo] Palestinians evacuate a building hit in the Israeli bombardment in Rafah in southern Gaza. [Hatem Ali/AP Photo] A man reacts as Palestinians search for casualties a day after Israeli strikes on houses in the Jabalia refugee camp in the northern Gaza Strip. [Mohammed Al-Masri/Reuters] An injured Palestinian boy cries as rescuers try to pull him out of the rubble of a destroyed building following an Israeli air strike in the Bureij refugee camp. [Mohammed Dahman/AP Photo] Palestinians are treated as they lie on a hospital floor in Khan Younis after being wounded in an Israeli strikes. [Fatima Shbair/AP Photo] A Palestinian kisses the foot of a child, killed in Israeli strike, at the Nasser hospital in Khan Younis. [AFP] Palestinian girl Eman Al-Kholi, whose limb was amputated after being wounded in an Israeli strike that killed her parents, is helped to drink water as she receives treatment at the European Hospital, in Rafah. More than 1,000 children have reportedly lost one or both legs since October 7. [Arafat Barbakh/Reuters] Israeli soldiers stand by a truck packed with shirtless Palestinian detainees. Israeli tactics against Palestinian civilians have been criticised, with rights groups accusing Israeli soldiers of committing war crimes. [Yossi Zeliger/Reuters] Palestinian journalists attempt to connect to the internet using their phones in Rafah on the southern Gaza Strip. [Said Khatib/AFP] Some Palestinians injured are seen at the al-Shifa Hospital which housed thousands of injured and displaced people. [Fadi Alwhidi/Anadolu] Palestinians flee to the southern Gaza Strip along Salah al-Din Street, on the outskirts of Gaza City, during the ongoing Israeli bombardment. [Adel Hana/AP Photo] Palestinians pray over bodies of people killed in the Israeli bombardment. The bodies were brought from the al-Shifa Hospital for burying in a mass grave in the town of Khan Younis. [Mohammed Dahman/AP Photo] Palestinians line up for food in Rafah. International aid agencies say Gaza is suffering from shortages of food, medicine and other essential supplies as a result of the war. The UN says Gaza is on the brink of famine. [Fatima Shbair/AP Photo] Palestinian women mourn as they hold the bodies of children killed in Israeli strikes, at the Indonesian Hospital in northern Gaza. [Fadi Alwhidi/Reuters] Displaced Palestinians, who fled their houses due to Israeli strikes, shelter in a tent camp in Rafah. [Ibraheem Abu Mustafa/Reuters]

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