These images present concern, loss of life and destruction in battle scenes from Israel and the Gaza Strip

In Israel, a frightened girl runs down the road cradling a younger woman in her arms as a automobile behind her is engulfed in a ball of flames from an unprecedented shock assault by Hamas militants.

In Gaza Metropolis, an anguished Palestinian girl embraces the pinnacle of a {dead} man carried by a crowd by way of the streets after he was killed in retaliation by Israeli forces.

The pictures are simply two of a whole bunch by Related Press photographers that present the destruction, terror and unhappiness on either side of the battle — and the triumph by some Palestinians who see the assault as a victory. A whole lot have been killed on either side of the border in combating that continued Sunday.

In Saturday’s early morning assault, a photograph reveals the smoky path of rockets from Gaza arcing by way of the sky in opposition to the backdrop of a rising solar. Rockets that struck a car parking zone subsequent to a residential constructing within the Israeli metropolis of Ashkelon torched automobiles and despatched thick black plumes skyward. Israeli safety forces used a desk like a stretcher to rescue a girl who lay in tattered, bloody garments.

Males in Gaza stood atop a burning Israeli tank with their arms raised in victory. On Sunday, a Palestinian man sat alone in entrance of the rubble of a destroyed condo constructing that was tilted on its facet behind him, exposing partial rooms nonetheless intact and laundry that had been hanging on balconies now coated in dust and rubble.