One Year in Pictures Since the Gaza War

Nearly 42,000 Palestinians killed, more than half of them women and children, as the besieged enclave marks a year of Israel’s genocidal war

Today marks one year since the outbreak of the Gaza War, a conflict that drew global attention and left deep scars on the region. The violence that erupted on October 7, 2023, brought a surge of devastation to the lives of countless civilians, leading to widespread destruction and a humanitarian crisis that lingers to this day. As we look back, this anniversary serves as a reminder of the enduring struggles faced by those affected and the ongoing complexities of peace in the Middle East.

In the early hours of 7 Oct, Israeli bombing targeted citizens’ homes in the Nuseirat and Bureij camps in the central Gaza Strip (PIC: WAFA Agency)

Palestinians break into the Israeli side of Israel-Gaza border fence after gunmen infiltrated areas of southern Israel, October 7, 2023. REUTERS

Palestinian fighters ride an Israeli military vehicle that was seized by gunmen who infiltrated areas of southern Israel, in the northern Gaza Strip, October 7, 2023. REUTERS

An aerial view shows damage caused following a mass infiltration by Hamas from the Gaza Strip, in Kibbutz Beeri in southern Israel, October 11, 2023. REUTERS

In one year of war, agricultural lands in the northern Gaza Strip have turned into barren land. Pic: Quds Net

Israel’s Iron Dome anti-missile system intercepts rockets launched from the Gaza Strip, as seen from the city of Ashkelon, Israel, October 9, 2023. REUTERS

Abdul Rahman, 10 months, is the first case of polio in Gaza in 25 years (UN), as the region faces enormous difficulties in obtaining clean, potable water.

A woman holding a child flees Israeli airstrikes that hit a neighbourhood in Gaza City on 23 October.

I have captured countless images of people being pulled from beneath the rubble, but one moment will never leave my mind. I saw this woman when she jumped from a bombed house, running with her child in her arms, trying to shield her from danger.I can’t comprehend where she found such strength – how she managed to flee while protecting her daughter.
This war taught me that mothers truly possess a kind of superhuman resilience.
No mother on this Earth should ever have to endure the terror of running for her life to save her child.
(The Gaza-based Anadolu Agency photographer Ali Jadallah)

Palestinians in the Gaza Strip feel like ‘dead people’ left to fend for themselves – UN Humanitarian Chief Muhannad Chief (Pic: UN)

Israeli warplanes bombed a house in the Saftawi area northwest of Gaza City (Pic: WAFA News Agency)

Smoke billows following Israeli strikes in Gaza City, October 11, 2023. REUTERS

Israel has also displaced nearly all of the enclave’s 2.3 million people, caused a hunger crisis and led to genocide allegations at the World Court that Israel denies.

Israeli occupation forces seized a Palestinian building near the entrance to the town of Qarawat Bani Hassan, west of Salfit, and turned it into a military barracks (Pic: WAFA)

A dove flies over the debris of houses destroyed in Israeli strikes, in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, October 11, 2023. REUTERS

A woman embraces the body of a Palestinian child killed in Israeli strikes, at a hospital in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, October 17, 2023. REUTERS

Palestinians carry a wounded girl after being rescued from under the rubble of buildings destroyed by Israeli air raids in the Jabalia refugee camp, northern Gaza, on November 1, 2023. [Abed Khaled/AP Photo]

Palestinians mourn their relatives killed by Israeli bombardment, outside a morgue in Rafah, southern Gaza, on January 10, 2024. [Fatima Shbair/AP Photo]

Israeli soldiers pose for a photo with the Gaza destruction in the background, on a position on the Gaza Strip fence, in southern Israel, on February 19, 2024. [Tsafrir Abayov/AP Photo]

Palestinians wait to receive food during the Muslim holy fasting month of Ramadan, in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, March 13, 2024. REUTERS/Mohammed Salem

Palestinians collect their belongings from the rubble of a residential building after an Israeli air raid in the al-Maghazi refugee camp, central Gaza, on March 29, 2024. [Ismael Abu Dayyah/AP Photo]

Palestinians walk through the destruction in the wake of an Israeli air and ground offensive in Khan Younis, on April 8, 2024. [Fatima Shbair/AP Photo]

Palestinian medics treat a baby wounded by Israeli bombardment, at Al-Aqsa Hospital in Deir el-Balah, on May 11, 2024. [Saher Alghorra/AP Photo]

Palestinians look at the aftermath of an Israeli strike on a UN-run school sheltering displaced Palestinians that killed dozens of people in the Nuseirat refugee camp, on June 6, 2024. [Jehad Alshrafi/AP Photo]

Smoke rises following Israeli bombardments in Khan Younis, on July 22, 2024. [Abdel Kareem Hana/AP Photo]

Palestinians bury more than 80 bodies returned by Israel in a cemetery in Khan Younis, on August 5, 2024. [Abdel Kareem Hana/AP Photo]

Palestinians look at the destruction after an Israeli air attack on a crowded tent camp housing Palestinians displaced by the war in al-Mawasi, on September 10, 2024. [Abdel Kareem Hana/AP Photo]