AP IMAGES: Portraits of Suffering and Desperation on Seventh Day of Hostilities

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Chaos and distress, resentment and sorrow.

Less than a week has elapsed since hostilities erupted between Israel and adjacent Gaza. Yet, on both sides of the well-fortified demarcation, the emotional and physical toll of conflict is palpable in instances that might otherwise be lost amid disorder.

Medical personnel in Palestine attend to an individual injured in Israeli offensives at Shifa Hospital in Gaza City on Friday, Oct. 13, 2023. (AP Photo/Ali Mahmoud)

In Tel Aviv, a solitary young woman bends down in darkness to ignite one among numerous candles set aflame in tribute to the scores of Israelis who lost their lives in a ferocious attack carried out by Hamas militants. Concurrently in Gaza, healthcare workers tend to a man partially covered in debris, the aftermath of one among myriad Israeli airstrikes that have pummeled the region, his countenance smeared with disintegrated masonry.

A wounded Palestinian man is extricated from the remains of a collapsed structure following an Israeli aerial assault in Rafah, Gaza Strip, on Friday, Oct. 13, 2023. (AP Photo/Hatem Ali)

As alarm sirens herald another imminent rocket strike, an Israeli father envelops his young son in his embrace and lowers himself to the ground for cover. As Israeli military advisories signal Palestinians in northern Gaza to vacate the area, lorries brimming with apprehensive civilians navigate congested roads in search of sanctuary.

An injured Palestinian is transported to Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, following Israeli airstrikes on Friday, Oct. 13, 2023. (AP Photo/Ali Mahmoud)

Israel’s Iron Dome air defense mechanism engages to thwart a projectile originating from the Gaza Strip, in Ashkelon, Israel, on Friday, Oct. 13, 2023. (AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov)

Residents of northern Gaza head southwards, reacting to an extraordinary evacuation directive from the Israeli military, affecting a populace exceeding one million in northern Gaza and Gaza City, in anticipation of a potential Israeli ground incursion on Friday, Oct. 13, 2023. (AP Photo/Hatem Moussa)

Medical staff treat an infant injured in Israeli aerial attacks at Al-Najar Hospital in Rafah, Gaza Strip, on Friday, Oct. 13, 2023. (AP Photo/Hatem Ali)

Israelis take defensive positions as sirens signal impending rocket attacks from the Gaza Strip, in Rehovot, Israel, on Friday, Oct. 13, 2023. (AP Photo/Dor Kedmi)

United Nations peacekeepers conduct a patrol on the Lebanese side of the Israel-Lebanon frontier in the southern hamlet of Kfar Kila, with the Israeli municipality of Metula observable in the backdrop, on Friday, Oct. 13, 2023. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)

A vehicle belonging to a member of the media is engulfed in flames subsequent to being struck by Israeli artillery in the border village of Alma al-Shaab, in southern Lebanon, on Friday, Oct. 13, 2023. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

Israeli military personnel survey the venue of a music festival near the Gaza Strip boundary in southern Israel, where a minimum of 260 Israeli attendees were fatally targeted in an attack perpetrated by Hamas militants the previous Saturday. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

Israelis scrutinize automobiles damaged by rockets launched from the Gaza Strip, in Ashkelon, southern Israel, on Friday, Oct. 13, 2023. (AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov)

An Israeli border enforcement officer takes aim during confrontations with Palestinians in the eastern sector of Jerusalem, on Friday, Oct. 13, 2023. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean)

Palestinian protestors engage with Israeli security forces following a rally in solidarity with the Gaza Strip, in the West Bank city of Nablus, on Friday, Oct. 13, 2023. (AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed)

Corpses of Israelis, victims of an unparalleled attack by Hamas, are amassed for identification procedures at a military installation in Ramla, Israel, on Friday, Oct. 13, 2023. (AP Photo/Ohad Zweigenberg)

Palestinians vacate northern Gaza and head south, in compliance with an unprecedented Israeli army evacuation notice affecting over a million inhabitants of northern Gaza and Gaza City, in anticipation of a possible Israeli terrestrial invasion on Friday, Oct. 13, 2023. (AP Photo/Hatem Moussa)

A female individual kindles votive candles in memory of those who perished in Hamas onslaughts, during a commemorative gathering at Dizengoff Square in central Tel Aviv, Israel, on Friday, Oct. 13, 2023. The placard on display states: “Out of Words.” (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)

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