LOOK: Deadly strikes, humanitarian crisis in Israel-Hamas war’s 6th day
Palestinians evacuate wounded people after an Israeli airstrike in Rafah refugee camp, southern Gaza Strip, Thursday, October 12, 2023. (AP Photo/Hatem Ali)
Scenes of war can burst with noise or carry a startling stillness.
They are both the blast of a howitzer and red roses on a gravesite.
Israeli tanks head toward the Gaza Strip border in southern Israel on Thursday, October 12, 2023. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)
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Secretary of State Antony Blinken arrives at Ben Gurion Airport in Tel Aviv, Israel, on Thursday, October 12, 2023. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
As a sixth day of conflict between Israel and Hamas wore on Thursday with pulverizing attacks and a growing humanitarian crisis, the images that emerged evoked the battle’s cacophony and its quiet.
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Israeli soldiers surround a Palestinian who ran at them with a knife at the site of a music festival near the border with the Gaza Strip on Thursday, October 12, 2023. At least 260 Israeli festival-goers were killed during the attack last Saturday, October 7. (AP Photo/Erik Marmor)
Mourners gather in grief around the bodies of Danielle Waldmann and her partner Noam Shai during their funeral in the northern Israeli town of Kiryat Tivon on Thursday, October 12, 2023. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)
A Palestinian child wounded in Israeli strikes is brought to Shifa Hospital in Gaza City on Wednesday, October 11, 2023. (AP Photo/Ali Mahmoud)
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One can almost hear the screams of a bloodied Palestinian child lying on a hospital floor or the rumble of an Israeli tank heading toward the border with Gaza. Just as striking is more muted moments like the hush of a smoke-shrouded crater after an airstrike, the pain of mourners gathered beside coffins, and the diplomat silently descending the steps of his airplane.
An Israeli howitzer fires at the Gaza Strip from the south of Israel on Thursday, October 12, 2023. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)
Israeli tanks head towards the Gaza Strip border in southern Israel on Thursday, October 12, 2023. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)
