A woman in Israel flees down the street, holding a young girl, while a car behind her is suddenly set on fire by Hamas militants in a shocking and unexpected attack.
A grieving Palestinian woman in Gaza City holds onto the head of a deceased man, who is being carried by a group of people through the streets. The man was killed in response to actions taken by Israeli forces.
The images are just two of hundreds by Associated Press photographers that show the destruction, terror and sadness on both sides of the conflict — and the triumph by some Palestinians who see the attack as a victory. Hundreds have been killed on both sides of the border in fighting that continued Sunday.
During the early morning attack on Saturday, a photograph captures the trajectory of rockets launched from Gaza, leaving behind a smoky trail as they soar through the sky with the rising sun in the background. These rockets hit a parking lot adjacent to a residential building in Ashkelon, Israel, causing cars to catch fire and thick black smoke to billow upwards. In order to save a woman who was injured and wearing torn and bloodied clothes, Israeli security forces improvised by using a table as a makeshift stretcher.
Men in Gaza stood atop a burning Israeli tank with their arms raised in victory. On Sunday, a Palestinian man sat alone in front of the rubble of a destroyed apartment building that was tilted on its side behind him, exposing partial rooms still intact and laundry that had been hanging on balconies now covered in dirt and rubble.
