Israel pounds Gaza Strip ahead of ground assault
Gaza’s overwhelmed hospitals tried to stretch out ebbing medical supplies and fuel, as authorities worked to deliver aid from Egypt.


























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Wounded Palestinians arrive at the al-Shifa hospital, on a truck, following Israeli airstrikes on Gaza City, central Gaza Strip, Thursday, Oct. 19.ASSOCIATED PRESS
Wounded Palestinians arrive at the al-Shifa hospital, following Israeli airstrikes on Gaza City, central Gaza Strip, Thursday, Oct. 19.ASSOCIATED PRESS
Israeli Iron Dome air defense system fires to intercept a rocket fired from the Gaza Strip, in Ashkelon, Israel, Thursday, Oct. 19.ASSOCIATED PRESS
An Israel soldier gestures to passers-by as he drives a military vehicle near the border between Israel and Gaza Strip, Israel, Thursday, Oct. 19.ASSOCIATED PRESS
A damaged clock outside a home that came under attack during a massive Hamas invasion into Kibbutz Nir Oz, Israel, Thursday, Oct. 19. The small farming community in the south of Israel was overrun by Hamas fighters from the nearby Gaza Strip who killed 1,400 Israelis and captured dozens of others on Oct. 7.ASSOCIATED PRESS
Palestinians displaced by the Israeli bombardment of the Gaza Strip sit in a UNDP-provided tent camp in Khan Younis on Thursday, Oct. 19.ASSOCIATED PRESS
Israeli military vehicles are seen during a raid on Nur Shams refugee camp in the West Bank on Thursday, Oct. 19.ASSOCIATED PRESS
A Palestinian boy wounded in an Israeli army raid on Nur Shams refugee camp is brought to a hospital in Tulkarem, West Bank, on Thursday, Oct. 19.ASSOCIATED PRESS
Israeli soldiers gather in a staging area near the border with Gaza Strip, in southern Israel, Thursday, Oct. 19.ASSOCIATED PRESS
Palestinians inspect the damage of a destroyed building following Israeli airstrikes on Gaza City, Thursday, Oct. 19.ASSOCIATED PRESS
Mourners carry the Bodies of Ibrahim Awad, right, and Mohammad Fawaqa, during their funeral in the West Bank city of Ramallah, Thursday, Oct. 19. Awad was killed during clashes with Israeli settlers near his home village of Dura al-Qara' and Fawaqa was killed during an Israeli army raid in the village of Qebia, west of Ramallah, while two other Palestinians were killed during Israeli army raids early morning in the occupied West Bank, Palestinian ministry of health said.ASSOCIATED PRESS
Smoke rises following an Israeli airstrike in the Gaza Strip, as seen from southern Israel, Thursday, Oct. 19.