One hundred days after Hamas gunmen broke out of Gaza to carry out the deadliest attack in Israel’s history, tens of thousands of Palestinians have been killed.
Gaza lies in ruins and the Middle East is sliding towards a wider regional conflict that would pitch the world deeper into crisis.
[1/44]Palestinians break into the Israeli side of Israel-Gaza border fence after gunmen infiltrated areas of southern Israel, October 7. REUTERS/Mohammed Fayq Abu MostafaGAZA, PALESTINIAN TERRITORIES [2/44]A man takes a photo of dead people strewn across a road following a mass-infiltration by Hamas gunmen from the Gaza Strip, in the Sderot area, southern Israel, October 7. REUTERS/Ammar AwadSDEROT, ISRAEL [3/44]A man carries a wounded Palestinian girl at the site of Israeli strikes on a house, in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, October 11. REUTERS/Ibraheem Abu MustafaKHAN YOUNIS, PALESTINIAN TERRITORIES [4/44]An aerial view shows damage caused following a mass infiltration by Hamas gunmen from the Gaza Strip, in Kibbutz Beeri in southern Israel, October 11. REUTERS/ Ilan RosenbergBEERI, ISRAELS [5/44]Smoke billows following Israeli strikes in Gaza City, October 11. REUTERS/Saleh SalemGAZA, PALESTINIAN TERRITORIES [6/44]People mourn at the graveside of Eden Guez, who was killed as she attended the Nova music music festival that was attacked by Hamas gunmen, at her funeral in Ashkelon, in southern Israel, October 10. REUTERS/Violeta Santos MouraASHKELON, ISRAEL [7/44]The daughter of  Zakaria Abu Maamar, a member of Hamas’ political office, is comforted as she cries during her father’s funeral, after he was killed in an air strike, in Khan Younis, in southern Gaza Strip, October 10. REUTERS/Ibraheem Abu MustafaKHAN YOUNIS, PALESTINIAN TERRITORIES [8/44]Israel’s Iron Dome anti-missile system intercepts rockets launched from the Gaza Strip, as seen from the city of Ashkelon, Israel, October 9. REUTERS/Amir CohenASHKELON, ISRAEL [9/44]A dove flies over the debris of houses destroyed in Israeli strikes, in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, October 11. REUTERS/Ibraheem Abu MustafaKHAN YOUNIS, PALESTINIAN TERRITORIES [10/44]A mourner reacts while burying the body of a Palestinian child of al-Agha family, who was killed in Israeli strikes, in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, October 11. REUTERS/Ibraheem Abu MustafaKHAN YOUNIS, PALESTINIAN TERRITORIES [11/44]Israeli military officers stand by a container in which bodies of the dead are stored before their relatives are called to identify them, in Ramla, Israel, October 13. REUTERS/Ronen ZvulunRAMLA, ISRAEL [12/44]Mourners attend the funeral of Palestinians from the Shamalkh family, who health officials said were killed in Israeli strikes, in Gaza City, October 9. REUTERS/Mohammed SalemGAZA, PALESTINIAN TERRITORIES [13/44]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. REUTERS/Mohammed SalemKHAN YOUNIS, PALESTINIAN TERRITORIES [14/44]A Palestinian man carries a child following Israeli strikes on houses in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, October 17. REUTERS/Ibraheem Abu MustafaRAFAH, PALESTINIAN TERRITORIES [15/44]Personal belongings including a child’s stroller are seen on the road next to a car days after a mass infiltration by Hamas gunmen from the Gaza Strip, near Kibbutz Kfar Aza, in southern Israel, October 10. REUTERS/Ronen ZvulunKFAR AZA, ISRAEL [16/44]A man mourns as he attends a funeral of Palestinians killed in Israeli strikes, in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, October 24. REUTERS/Mohammed SalemKHAN YOUNIS, PALESTINIAN TERRITORIES [17/44]People react as Palestinians search for casualties at the site of an Israeli strike on a residential building in Gaza City, October 25. REUTERS/Yasser QudihGAZA CITY, PALESTINIAN TERRITORIES [18/44]Friends and family take cover as rocket sirens sound during the funeral of Sagiv Ben Zvi, 24, who was killed following the deadly infiltration by Hamas gunmen from the Gaza Strip as he attended the Nova festival in southern Israel, in Holon, Israel, October 26. REUTERS/Evelyn HocksteinHOLON, ISRAEL [19/44]Palestinians check the damage at the site of Israeli strikes on houses, in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, October 29. REUTERS/Mohammed SalemKHAN YOUNIS, PALESTINIAN TERRITORIES [20/44]A man runs on a road as fire burns after rockets were launched from the Gaza Strip, in Ashkelon, Israel, October 7. REUTERS/Amir CohenASHKELON, ISRAEL [21/44]A Palestinian man from al-Badrasawi family carries the body of his child who was killed in Israeli strikes, at Shuhada Al-Aqsa hospital in the central Gaza Strip, October 31. REUTERS/Ahmed ZakotCENTRAL GAZA STRIP, PALESTINIAN TERRITORIES [22/44]Hadas Kalderon, whose 3 members of her family, two children Erez and Sahar, and their father, Ofir have been kidnapped, while Hadas’ mother and niece were killed, cries in the burned-out remains of her mother’s home, following a deadly attack by Hamas gunmen from the Gaza Strip on Kibbutz Nir Oz, in southern Israel, October 30. REUTERS/Evelyn HocksteinNIR OZ, ISRAEL [23/44]A man removes rubble from a victim’s leg, as people search for survivors in the aftermath of Israeli strikes, in Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip, November 1. REUTERS/Mohammed SalemKHAN YOUNIS, PALESTINIAN TERRITORIES [24/44]Israeli soldiers from the Home Front Command recover an Israeli flag as they search damaged cars for human remains and other evidence, following the October 7 attack by Hamas gunmen, on a field near Netivot in southern Israel, November 1. REUTERS/Amir CohenNETIVOT, ISRAEL [25/44]Children wait for the arrival of Palestinian workers, who were in Israel during the Hamas October 7th attack, at the Rafah border in the southern Gaza Strip, November 3. REUTERS/Ibraheem Abu MustafaRAFAH, PALESTINIAN TERRITORIES [26/44]An Israeli military unit fires from an undisclosed location near the Gaza Strip border, in Israel, November 6.  REUTERS/Amir CohenUNDISCLOSED, ISRAEL [27/44]Lt. Col. Ido stands in a damaged bedroom, which is located, as he claims, above a workshop that was used for weapon production inside a residential building, in the northern Gaza Strip, November 8. REUTERS/Ronen ZvulunGAZA STRIP, PALESTINIAN TERRITORIES [28/44]Palestinians fleeing north Gaza move southward as Israeli tanks roll deeper into the enclave, in the central Gaza Strip, November 10. REUTERS/Ibraheem Abu MustafaCENTRAL GAZA STRIP, PALESTINIAN TERRITORIES [29/44]A mother covers her daughter as a siren sounds signaling incoming rockets launched from the Gaza Strip towards Israel during a protest calling on the UN and UNICEF to assist children being held hostage in Gaza by Hamas, near the offices of UNICEF in Tel Aviv, Israel, November 20. REUTERS/Itai RonTEL AVIV, ISRAEL [30/44]An Israeli soldier secures a tunnel underneath Al Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, in the northern Gaza Strip, November 22. REUTERS/Ronen ZvulunNORTHERN GAZA, PALESTINIAN TERRITORIES [31/44]A Palestinian child, wounded in an Israeli strike, is assisted at Nasser hospital, in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, November 13. REUTERS/Mohammed SalemKHAN YOUNIS, PALESTINIAN TERRITORIES [32/44]Smoke rises over Gaza, as seen from southern Israel, December 8. REUTERS/Athit PerawongmethaISRAEL-GAZA BORDER, ISRAEL [33/44]A Palestinian child cries next to his mother after they were rushed into Nasser hospital, following an Israeli strike, in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, November 13. REUTERS/Mohammed SalemKHAN YOUNIS, PALESTINIAN TERRITORIES [34/44]The bodies of Palestinians killed in Israeli strikes and fire are buried in a mass grave, after they were transported from Al Shifa hospital in Gaza City for burial, in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, November 22. REUTERS/Fadi ShanaKHAN YOUNIS, PALESTINIAN TERRITORIES [35/44]Sharon Avigdori, who was abducted by Hamas gunmen during the October 7 attack on Israel, hugs her son Omer shortly after being released on November 25, at an unknown location, in this picture released on November 26. Israeli Government Press Office/Haim ZachUNKNOWN, ISRAEL [36/44]A Palestinian boy carrying a baby stands at a site of Israeli strikes, in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, December 4. REUTERS/Mohammed SalemRAFAH, PALESTINIAN TERRITORIES [37/44]Family of Alon Ohel, 22, who was taken hostage by Palestinian Islamist group Hamas during the deadly October 7 attack, light the first candle to mark the first night of the Jewish holiday of Hanukkah in their house in Levon in northern Israel, December 7. REUTERS/Shir ToremLEVON, ISRAEL [38/44]Wounded Palestinians sit on the floor at Nasser hospital following Israeli strikes, in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, December 9. REUTERS/Ibraheem Abu MustafaKHAN YOUNIS, PALESTINIAN TERRITORIES [39/44]An Israeli flag flies among debris in Gaza, as seen from southern Israel, December 12. REUTERS/Clodagh KilcoyneISRAEL-GAZA BORDER, ISRAEL [40/44]Wife of Israeli military reservist Staff Sergeant Elisha Yehonatan Lober, 24, who was killed in southern Gaza during the ongoing ground operation by Israel’s military in the Gaza Strip, reacts during his funeral as she holds their baby, at the Mount Herzl military cemetery in Jerusalem, December 27. REUTERS/Ronen ZvulunJERUSALEM, ISRAEL [41/44]A Palestinian reacts at the site of an Israeli strike on a house, in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, December 14. REUTERS/Sami Abu TabakRAFAH, PALESTINIAN TERRITORIES [42/44]A member of the Israeli military reacts next to a memorial of her family members Tair David and Hodaya David at the site of the Nova festival, where people were killed and kidnapped during the October 7 attack by Hamas gunmen, on the day of a press conference held by family members and relatives of Nova festival attendees, in Reim, in southern Israel, January 5. REUTERS/Tyrone SiuREIM, ISRAEL [43/44]A man carries a body of a Palestinian killed in Israeli strikes on Al-Mawasi, at a hospital in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, January 4. REUTERS/Ahmed ZakotKHAN YOUNIS, PALESTINIAN TERRITORIES [44/44]A view shows the remains of an Israeli car that, according to Israel’s military, was stolen by Palestinians from Gaza on October 7 and later struck by a military helicopter as they made their way back, while smoke rises above Gaza in the distance, near Israel’s border with Gaza, in southern Israel, January 1. REUTERS/Amir CohenISRAEL-GAZA BORDER, ISRAEL MORE: