Published: TUESDAY May 14, 2024: 'No ENDGAME In Sight' by ZUMA Press award winning photo-journalist Saher Alghorra: Nearly 360,000 people had fled the Gaza Strip's southernmost city of Rafah, according to the UN. The Israel Defense Forces sparked the exodus, issuing evacuation orders by text messages and fliers dropped from the sky. IDF troops have pushed across the southern Palestinian territory in what the military says are limited and precise attacks targeting Hamas. The U.S. has repeatedly warned Israel against launching a major military ground operation in Rafah, fearing mass casualties. The White House, in tandem with other countries, has also increased pressure on Netanyahu's government to form a plan to address the humanitarian crisis caused by the war, and for the so-called ''day after,'' to figure out who or what will replace Hamas as Gaza's governing body. Without an alternative to govern Gaza, the group, both Israel and the U.S. call a terrorist organization could stage a comeback. Welcome to 'No ENDGAME In Sight'
© zReportage.com Issue #939 Story of the Week: Published: TUESDAY May 14, 2024: 'No ENDGAME In Sight' by ZUMA Press award winning photo-journalist Saher Alghorra: Nearly 360,000 people had fled the Gaza Strip's southernmost city of Rafah, according to the UN. The Israel Defense Forces sparked the exodus, issuing evacuation orders by text messages and fliers dropped from the sky. IDF troops have pushed across the southern Palestinian territory in what the military says are limited and precise attacks targeting Hamas. The U.S. has repeatedly warned Israel against launching a major military ground operation in Rafah, fearing mass casualties. The White House, in tandem with other countries, has also increased pressure on Netanyahu's government to form a plan to address the humanitarian crisis caused by the war, and for the so-called ''day after,'' to figure out who or what will replace Hamas as Gaza's governing body. Without an alternative to govern Gaza, the group, both Israel and the U.S. call a terrorist organization could stage a comeback. Welcome to 'No ENDGAME In Sight'
A young Palestinian man hugs his sister who cries over their father's death as bodies are released from the hospital morgue in the Gaza Strip amid the ongoing war between Israel and Hamas.
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A Palestinian man grieves next to the body of his brother at Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital. His brother was killed in an Israeli bombardment at dawn in the Wadi area in Gaza.
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A young man carries his injured brother past ambulances to the emergency department at Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital. A number of dead and injured arrive at the Hospital in Deir al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip after targets were hit by Israeli warplanes.
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A Palestinian mother hugs her two daughters and they cry over their brother's death inside the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir al-Balah. Several targets were hit overnight by Israeli warplanes in the central Gaza Strip.
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Palestinians roam the destroyed streets of Khan Younis searching for any goods that can be salvaged and used amid the ongoing war between Israel and Hamas.
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A Palestinian child lifts an empty container and hand written sign demanding cooking gas in so they can cook the food there have received. For most of the war, Israel had barred the entry of any fuel to Gaza, claiming it could be used by Hamas for military purposes.
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Palestinians riding a cart and donkey roam the streets of the destroyed city of Khan Younis and collect salvageable items from the rubble. Israel's war in Gaza has created 37m tonnes of debris, much of it laced with unexploded bombs, which could take more than a decade to remove, a top UN de-mining official said.
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Relatives of deceased Palestinians including several children receive the bodies from the morgue in the courtyard of Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir Al-Balah.
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A grieving Palestinian mother and her daughter bring her badly injured son to the hospital in the back of a Tuktuk. Israeli warplanes bombed a house in the center of Bureij refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip. Casualties were transferred to Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir al-Balah.
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A Palestinian man with bleeding face, receives treatment inside Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital after he was injured during a bombardment. An Israeli airstrike on a house in Gaza's southernmost city of Rafah killed at least nine people, six of them children, as Israel pursued its nearly seven-month offensive in the besieged Palestinian territory.
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Covered in concrete dust a Palestinian man carries his infant son injured by the Israeli shelling on the Gaza Strip into the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir al-Balah.
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An injured child receives first aid on the floor of the packed Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir al-Balah after she was injured during an Israeli bombardment.
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A young Palestinian child rests on his bed as his grandmother feeds him through a syringe due to a laceration to his tongue and injuring both his arms. The boy was injured during the ongoing war between Israel and Hamas in Gaza.
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Palestinian women cover their faces and mourn the release of their deceased relatives from the morgue at Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir al-Balah, Gaza.
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Standing outside Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital, Palestinians perform funeral prayers for 4 family members who were killed after an Israeli attack in Deir al-Balah.
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A young Palestinian man looks out from his destroyed home at the devastation in his neighborhood in the Nuseirat camp following the leveling an entire residential block, which led to more than 9 deaths and dozens of injuries.
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Palestinians search the rubble of their destroyed home for usable items amid the ongoing war between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza Strip.
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A grieving Palestinian mother screams and cries after receiving the news of her son's death at Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital, after a deadly Israeli bombardment on the central Gaza Strip.
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Warning leaflets dropped by Israel fill the sky of Rafah, as residents are told to leave immediately ahead of Israel's Rafah offensive in the ongoing war against Hamas.
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A child carries her little sister on her back and is displaced from her home while walking with other family members out of Rafah. Palestinians flee Rafah any way they can after the Israeli military began demanding civilians evacuate from the eastern parts of the southern Gazan city, ahead of a threatened assault.
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Displaced Palestinians who fled Rafah, ride with belongings in the back of a truck, after the Israeli military began demanding civilians evacuate from the eastern parts of the southern Gazan city, ahead of a threatened assault, amid the ongoing conflict.
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Car piled high with belongings, many Palestinians return to their homes in Khan Younis after being displaced from Rafah ahead of an imminent Israeli assault on Hamas in Rafah.
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Thousands of tent shelters for displaced Palestinians cover the ground in the city of Rafah, which is threatened by a Israeli military assault amid the ongoing war with Hamas.
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Displaced Palestinian children in the southern Gaza city of Rafah play with a water hose to escape the heat inside the tents as temperatures rise. According to UNICEF, compared to adults, children are especially vulnerable to the devastating impacts of the war in the Gaza Strip. They are being disproportionately killed and injured, and suffering more acutely from disruptions to healthcare and education and a lack of access to sufficient food and water.
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A Palestinian girl collects clothes from a makeshift laundry line set up in front of her destroyed family home in the Gaza Strip, amid the ongoing war between Israel and Hamas.
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A displaced Palestinian child jumps in the sea and plays with his dog on the beach of Deir al-Balah on the Mediterranean coast. Palestinians enjoy a day on the beach and try to cool off by swimming in the sea in the coastal area as Israeli attacks continue on Gaza.
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A displaced Palestinian child throws buckets of sea water on a horse at Deir al-Balah on the Mediterranean sea shore as the war between israel and Hamas continues.
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Looking at the destruction around him, a Palestinian youth sits on top of his family home which was badly damaged by Israeli shelling during the ongoing war with Hamas.
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