Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel warned on Sunday of a “lengthy and tough struggle” forward, a day after Palestinian militants launched one of many largest assaults in years from the Gaza Strip, sending hundreds of rockets into central and southern components of the nation as closely armed gunmen crossed border fences into Israeli communities.
Israel responded with heavy airstrikes on Gazan cities, which continued into Monday morning. Hamas, a militant group that controls Gaza, additionally continued to fireside rockets into Israel in a single day.
Listed below are pictures from the confrontation.
This gallery comprises graphic pictures.
Tuesday
Surveying the harm within the Al-Rimal neighborhood of Gaza after Israeli strikes.
Israeli troopers stood close to the physique of a Palestinian militant in Kfar Aza, within the south of Israel close to the border with Gaza.
Palestinian journalists mourning two different journalists, Saeed Al-Taweel and Muhammad Sobh, who have been killed whereas photographing the bombing of a tower in Gaza Metropolis.
Residents of Kfar Aza, who have been evacuated from their houses after Hamas militants broke into their kibbutz.
A vacationer group from Italy whose flight was canceled waited for one more flight at Ben Gurion airport, exterior Tel Aviv.
Monday
Destruction across the Ahmed Yassin Mosque, which was bombed in Israeli airstrikes, in Gaza Metropolis.
A mom and father carry their daughter, who was wounded in an Israeli bombing inside a college in downtown Gaza metropolis, into Al-Shifa Hospital.
The funeral of an Israeli soldier, Yuval Ben Yaakov, within the cemetery in Kfar Menahem.
Israeli forces in a cotton discipline close to Kfar Menahem in Israel.
Folks hiding beneath the steps after their home was destroyed when Israeli struggle planes bombed the Western Mosque, west of Gaza Metropolis.
A wounded Palestinian lady mourns as she holds the physique of her daughter at Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza Metropolis.
Mourners grieve on the funeral of Col. Roi Levy, 44, on the Mount Herzl Army Cemetery in Jerusalem.
Israel’s Iron Dome antimissile system intercepting rockets launched from the Gaza Strip, as seen from Ashkelon, Israel.
Israelis evacuate a website struck by a rocket fired from the Gaza Strip, in Ashkelon.
Israelis search shelter after a rocket siren was sounded in Jerusalem, Israel.
Palestinians seek for survivors after an Israeli airstrike on the Jabaliya refugee camp within the Gaza Strip.
A woman runs in worry on the sounds of bombing close to Al-Shifa Hospital in central Gaza.
EMT Menachem Zacharya attracts blood from two Israelis at a blood donation middle organized by Magen David Adom, Israel’s nationwide emergency service, which was arrange at an enviornment in Jerusalem, Israel.
Kin mourn folks killed in an Israeli airstrike in Gaza Metropolis.
A marriage picture in a constructing in Ashkelon that was hit by rockets.
Sunday
An injured lady together with her youngster after an Israeli airstrike close to their home within the central Gaza Strip.
A constructing broken in strikes in Gaza Metropolis.
Israeli troopers leaving a shelter after rocket sirens have been sounded in Sderot, Israel, as they looked for remaining Hamas gunmen from Gaza in a residential neighborhood close to the place gunmen had taken over a police station.
A constructing in Tel Aviv a day after it was hit.
Tali Touito, a resident of Sderot, described how Hamas gunmen attacked and took over the police station on her avenue.
A blindfolded Palestinian prisoner talking to a member of the Israeli safety forces on the border with Gaza, close to the southern Israeli metropolis of Ashkelon.
Bombing of the Nationwide Islamic Financial institution in central Gaza.
Looking by means of the rubble of a home within the Gazan city of Khan Younis.
Israeli troopers in an meeting space close to the Gaza Strip.
Gabriel Trigun taking cowl beside his automotive as rockets launched from Gaza have been intercepted by the Iron Dome air-defense system in Sderot.
Palestinian residents inspecting their property in Gaza Metropolis.
A mom crying subsequent to the physique of her son — who was killed within the Israeli raids — on the grounds of Al-Shifa Hospital.
Israeli troopers run to meet up with members of their unit throughout a patrol by means of a residential neighborhood of Sderot.
An toddler sleeping in a eating room in Kibbutz Mishmar HaNegev after being rescued with a household that was hiding in a home in Kibbutz Kfar.
Saturday
A girl working to the concrete shelter at her dwelling in Ashkelon, Israel, after a rocket siren sounded.
Palestinian kids trying towards the sky as they hear the sound of airstrikes. Households sought refuge at a United Nations Reduction and Works Company college in Gaza.
Palestinians breaking into the Israeli facet of the Israel-Gaza border fence.
The our bodies of Israelis killed by Palestinian militants who entered from the Gaza Strip lay coated within the southern Israeli metropolis of Sderot.
A resident of Ashkelon, about 10 miles north of the Gaza Strip, looking the window of his household’s condominium at destruction attributable to a rocket fired from Gaza.
Palestinian militants encompass a truck reportedly carrying a captured Israeli lady, in Khan Yunis within the souther Gaza Strip
Rockets being fired towards Israel from the Gaza Strip. The assault started with out warning at about 6:30 a.m. on the Jewish Sabbath, and nearly 50 years to the day since a shock assault by Egyptian and Syrian forces on Israel that set off the 1973 struggle.
Members of Israeli safety forces carrying a wounded particular person in Ashkelon. Israel’s Well being Ministry mentioned greater than 1,400 folks had been wounded.
The aftermath of an Israeli airstrike in Gaza.
Our bodies strewn on a highway in Sderot, Israel. Israeli civilians have been killed by gunmen within the space on Saturday, however the complete variety of victims was not but clear.
Palestinian militants using a seized Israeli army automobile.
Kin mourning over the our bodies of Palestinian militants on the mortuary of a hospital in Gaza Metropolis.
Israeli rescue groups tending to a person in a constructing that acquired a direct hit in Ashkelon.
Yeshayahu Lobby, a 91-year-old Holocaust survivor, at his dwelling in Ashkelon after surveying rocket harm to a home beneath development subsequent door.
Carrying the physique of a Palestinian militant killed in Gaza.
Israelis donating blood in Jerusalem.
An aerial view of Ashkelon displaying automobiles on hearth as rockets have been launched from the Gaza Strip.
Palestinians celebrating over a burned Israeli automotive in Gaza.
