This war has been more widely documented than any other – opening the world’s eyes to the horror it unleashed
The horror was there from the start. In the faces of the hostages, wrestled into golf buggies and driven across the border; in the footage of young people dressed for a night out sprinting for their lives across scrubland as 378 of their fellow festival-goers were slaughtered. It was there on the first night of the bombing of Gaza: the first apartment blocks flattened, the first hospital hit.
From 7 October 2023, the terror of the Hamas attack and Israel’s devastating war on Gaza has been impossible to ignore. Despite a ban on international media entering Gaza, no war has ever been so clearly and widely documented. It fills our TV screens, our newspapers, our phones, whether on WhatsApp chats or Instagram feeds.
Photographs, far more than words, have brought home the trauma of famine, the utter devastation of cities and the agony, fear and desperation that this war has created. As a ceasefire begins and thousands start the long walk back to a home that no longer exists, the horror remains, but there is also a tiny sliver of hope.
7/10/23: Palestinians take control of an Israeli tank in the southern Gaza Strip
8/10/23: Rockets fired by Palestinian militants from Gaza City
9/10/23: Palestinians evacuate following an Israeli airstrike on Al-Sousi mosque in Gaza City
13/10/23: Israelis take cover as a siren sounds in Rehovot, Israel
23/10/23: Mourners at the funeral of Yam Goldstein-Almog and her father, Nadav, in Kibbutz Shefayim, Israel
26/5/24: Relatives of Hanan Yablonka, one of the hostages held in Gaza, mourn during his funeral in Tel Aviv
27/1/25: Displaced Gazans walking toward Gaza City
8/2/25: Israeli captives, from left to the right, Ohad Ben Ami, Eli Sharabi and Or Levy are escorted by Hamas fighters on a stage before being handed over to the Red Cross
2/5/25: Palestinians receive hot meals in Khan Younis
5/9/25: Israeli strikes on the Mushtaha Tower in Gaza City
16/9/25: 11-year-old Marah Haddad is rescued by civil defense teams in Gaza City
Photographs by Eyad Baba/AFP via Getty Images, Mahmud Hams/AFP, Ariel Schalit/AP, Dor Kedmi/AP, Menahem Kahana/AFP via Getty Images, Abdel Kareem Hana/AFP, Doaa Albaz/Anadolu via Getty Images, Omar Al-Qattaa/AFP via Getty Images, Khames Alrefi/Anadolu via Getty Images
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