Powerful Mirror Images Of The Israel-Gaza Conflict

101 Palestinians have been killed since Israel launched its airstrike offensive Wednesday. Palestinian rockets killed three Israelis on Thursday.

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Jessica Testa
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Left: In Israel, a group mourns one of three killed by a rocket fired from Gaza. (AP/Tsafrir Abayov)
Right: In Gaza, a group mourns during the funeral of Palestinian child killed after an Israeli airstrike. (AP/Hatem Moussa)

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Left: Israelis rush for cover during a siren alert for a rocket fired by Palestinian militants toward Tel Aviv. (AP/Dan Balilty)
Right: A Palestinian runs for cover during an Israeli airstrike in Gaza City. (AP/Adel Hana)

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Left: An Israeli soldier throws tear gas at Palestinian protestors, in the West Bank village of Beit Omar near Hebron. (AP/Nasser Shiyoukhi)
Right: Palestinian youths throw stones at Israeli soldiers in the West Bank city of Bethlehem. (AP/Nasser Shiyoukhi)

4.

Left: An Israeli war plane drops a bomb over Gaza, (AP/Ariel Schalit)
Right: A rocket takes off in northern Gaza toward Israel. (AP/Ariel Schalit)

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Left: An Israeli soldier throws a blood-stained table from an apartment building in southern Israel. (AP/Tsafrir Abayov)
Right: A Palestinian man sits in the rubble of a destroyed home after an Israeli airstrike in northern Gaza Strip. (AP/Hatem Moussa)

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Left: In southern Israel, a man stands in front of a home with shrapnel holes from a rocket. (AP/Tsafrir Abayov)
Right: In the Gaza Strip, a Palestinian woman sits in rubble following an Israeli air strike. (AP/Eyad Baba)

7.

Left: An Israeli soldier holds up a Torah scroll. (AP/Ariel Schalit)
Right: Palestinians pray over the body of a baby. (AP/Adel Hana)

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Left: An Israeli man stands next to a car in Beersheva damaged by a rocket fired by Palestinian militants. (AP/Ilan Assayag)
Right: A Palestinian man inspects damaged cars following an Israeli air strike. (AP/Hatem Omar)

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Left: An Israeli woman walks through a damaged house hit by a rocked fired from the Gaza Strip. (AP/Tsafrir Abayov)
Right: Palestinians inspect a damaged Gaza City apartment hit in an Israeli strike. (AP/Hatem Moussa)

10.

Left: Israelis hide in a concrete tube during a rocket attack in Nitzan. (AP/Ahikam Seri)
Right: A Palestinian boy walks up the stairs of a house destroyed by an Israeli strike in Gaza City. (AP/Hatem Moussa)

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    • kirstens5 thinks Powerful Mirror Images Of The Israel-... is WTF  about 5 months ago
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    • fadlee 5 months ago

      THE WORLD AGAINST ZIONISM!! ISRAEL, STOP ALL THE KILLING!!

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      F R E E  P A L E S T I N E !

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    • ellym2 5 months ago

      israel obtainedthere land legally in 1948, why do the palestinians feel they have a right to it? they didnt care about it before 1948

    • dawnmcclures   Powerful Mirror Images Of The Israel-...  about 5 months ago
    • bens7 5 months ago

      Everyone has to acknowledge that Israel is occupying Palestine. Yes Israel is defending itself, but from resistance not from invasion. The Western powers have never experienced a crushing occupation,so no one call relate, except maybe for the American Indians.

    • Mozart The Cat 5 months ago

      Father Abraham is tired of his kids fighting. Mutual Assured Destruction means NOBODY gets dessert.

    • kileyu   Powerful Mirror Images Of The Israel-...  about 5 months ago
    • evilito 5 months ago

      oy, these freaking people.

    • queenzizi   Powerful Mirror Images Of The Israel-... and thinks it’s OMG  about 5 months ago
    • miamibeach 5 months ago

      These are the best pictures from Gaza. :(

    • richards25 5 months ago

      Israel won’t have to defend itself when it stops getting assaulted by rockets.

    • David Fields thinks Powerful Mirror Images Of The Israel-... is OMG  about 5 months ago
    • DanaDane 5 months ago

      How can anyone say that portraying the truth is biased? Look at the numbers and the damage. Israel has first world weapon funding and backing. You can’t honestly believe that three (very unfortunate) deaths warrant the retaliatory deaths of over one hundred people. Israel has the iron dome to protect its people (that we as Americans fund with our taxes) while the Palestinians are often denied the assistance offered by human rights activists. Something doesn’t add up here and I’m glad that someone has the courage to show just how one sided this fight really is.

    • senoritagrey thinks Powerful Mirror Images Of The Israel-... is OMG & Sad  about 5 months ago
    • effyouceekay 5 months ago

      Number 3 is from the westbank you do know thats not part of gaza strip?

    • Carly Mitchell 5 months ago

      After viewing the pictures above I feel two ways: sad for the people of both Israel and Palestine and disappointed to see yet another website portray biased and inaccurate information. People seem to forget one VERY important thing, Israel MUST defend itself. With the key word being defend. As long as Gaza attacks Israel, Israel will retaliate. This is a reasonable concept yet there are more and more people dying everyday. Even with all the knowledge of the crippling affects of Israeli missiles, all the innocent people who die and the devastation to land, Gaza continues to attack Israel. If Hamas cared about the welfare of their people and territory half as much as they cared about destroying Israel, then they would be in a much better place. Sadly, this is not the case. It seems like the Palestinians will go to any means just to regain territory that is rightfully Israel’s. It pains me to see and hear about the deaths of innocent Palestinian people but, to make Israelis seem like a bunch of inhumane monsters is unfair and incorrect. Israel will always protect their people and defend their country. And, that’s unfortunately what they’ve been forced to do. The only way for the killing to end is if Gaza stops attacking Israel. So, when looking at skewed pictures like these I hope people consider the circumstances rather than believe the depiction of an evil and ruthless Israel.

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    • kriziaa 5 months ago

      That is terrible:( makes me sad….

    • Sarah C. 5 months ago

      I didn’t mean to say “love”. War is horrible.

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    • AlizaBA 5 months ago

      Jessica, I’d like to take a moment to thank you for providing an extremely powerful discourse through which to think about this ongoing crisis. As someone personally invested in the situation, by means of family, friends and many loved ones living in Israel, I would like to thank you for choosing photos (and captions) which accurately portray the pain and suffering felt by both the Palestinian people and Israel.
      However, I’d like to ask you to think about the description you provided for your article, and how that frames the conversation. Yes, the numbers you provide are accurate, and though I think there is deeper meaning that should be revealed (such as the care that each side’s respective leadership takes toward protecting its people), I will not focus on numbers. Rather, by the mere act of choosing to bold the first line, you are deemphasizing the toll this conflict has taken on Israel, and directing your audience’s attention to one people’s loss.
      Please be aware of even these minute details and the way in which they can shape public perception. As a sometimes-journalist, I truly appreciate your almost perfectly unbiased piece, so I felt the urge to point out the one major misdirection.  Thanks.

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      theres a disney joke somewhere here… but I’m not that much of a heartless cunt.

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