Photos: Palestinians in Gaza brace for more attacks

More than 260,000 people displaced in Gaza according to the UN

Last updated: October 11, 2023 | 19:30

Compiled by Devadasan K P, Chief Visual Editor

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Smoke plumes billow during Israeli air strikes in Gaza City on October 12, 2023 as raging battles between Israel and the Hamas movement continue for the sixth consecutive day.

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Smoke plumes billow following Israeli bombardment in Gaza City on October 11, 2023, on the fifth day of fighting between Israel and the Hamas movement. Israel declared war on Hamas on October 8 following a shock land, air and sea assault by the Gaza-based militants. Over 260,000 people have been forced to flee their homes in the Gaza Strip as heavy Israeli bombardments from the air, land, and sea continue to hit the Palestinian enclave, the United Nations said.

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Fierce fighting has left thousands dead on both sides since Hamas launched a surprise assault on Saturday, spurring Israel's reprisal bombing campaign. Above, a man carries a wounded Palestinian girl as a woman reacts at the site of Israeli strikes on a house in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip on October 11, 2023.

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Palestinians carry a casualty at the site of Israeli strikes on houses in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip.

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Palestinian children stand as they fill containers with water from public taps amid the conflict with Israel in Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip.

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Palestinians assist a wounded man at the site of Israeli strikes on houses, in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip.

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Shells from Israeli bombardment land in the water in the Gaza City seaport on October 11, 2023 on the fifth day of ferocious fighting between the Hamas and Israel.

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A man reacts outside a burning collapsed building following Israeli bombardment in Gaza City on October 11, 2023. Israel pounded the Gaza Strip with hundreds of air strikes overnight, a Hamas government official said on October 11.

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Palestinians left the al-Karama neighbourhood in Gaza City for safer areas on October 11, 2023, as raging battles between Israel and the Hamas movement continued for the fifth consecutive day.

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An aerial view of buildings destroyed by Israeli air strikes in the Jabalia camp for Palestinian refugees in Gaza City.

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Palestinians rescue a young girl from the rubble of a destroyed residential building following an Israeli airstrike.

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Palestinian children injured in Israeli strikes are brought to a hospital, in Gaza City, October 11

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