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AP PHOTOS: Anger boils and desperation widens in war’s 12th day
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Date:2025-04-15 17:38:46
War’s most glaring images capture blood-soaked bodies, flattened buildings and steely soldiers. Zero in on the faces in those photos, though, and much more is revealed: Anger, resolve and desperation.
As Israel’s war with Hamas persisted in its 12th day Wednesday, scenes of destruction and brutality met subtler human moments of a person absorbing their new reality.
An Israeli soldier inspects a house damaged by Hamas militants in Kibbutz Kfar Azza, Israel, Wednesday, Oct. 18, 2023. The Kibbutz was overrun by Hamas militants from the nearby Gaza Strip on Oct. 7, when they killed and captured many Israelis. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)
A man walking his bicycle beside the charred remains of a hospital that became the battle’s latest flashpoint. An obliterated building and the child pulled from its debris. A house pockmarked by artillery, and the man who stares blankly from the window.
All of it rippled outward to the wider world, bringing protests filled with boiling anger on the faces of those who amassed in Cairo, Tehran and outside Beirut.
A security team watches U.S. President Joe Biden’s motorcade drive to the airport after his meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Wednesday, Oct. 18, 2023, in Tel Aviv. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
President Joe Biden is greeted by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu after arriving at Ben Gurion International Airport, Wednesday, Oct. 18, 2023, in Tel Aviv. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
Palestinians rescue a child from under the rubble after Israeli airstrikes in Gaza City, Gaza Strip, Wednesday, Oct. 18, 2023. (AP Photo/Abed Khaled)
Mourners gather around the coffins of Gil Taasa and his son Or during their funeral in Kibbutz Nitzan, Israel, Wednesday, Oct. 18, 2023. The father and his son were killed by Hamas militants on Oct. 7 in Netiv Haasara, close to the Gaza Strip’s separation fence with Israel. (AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov)
Forensic experts stand next to the bodies of Israelis killed by Hamas militants in the National Center for Forensic Medicine in Tel Aviv, Israel, Wednesday, Oct. 18, 2023. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)
Families and supporters of Israelis held captive in Gaza call for their release during a demonstration in Tel Aviv, Israel, Wednesday, Oct. 18, 2023. The Israeli army says some 200 people were kidnapped and taken to Gaza in Hamas’ cross-border attack on Israel on Oct. 7. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)
A boy lights candles in the form of the Star of David in honor of victims of the Hamas attacks during a vigil at the Dizengoff square in central Tel Aviv, Israel, Wednesday, Oct 18, 2023. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)
Egyptian protesters shout anti-Israel slogans during a demonstration to show solidarity with Palestinians, in front of the Journalists Syndicate in Cairo, Egypt, Wednesday, Oct. 18, 2023. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil)
Iranian protestors attend an anti-Israel rally as they hold up posters of the Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and Iranian and Palestinian flags, at Enqelab-e-Eslami (Islamic Revolution) Square in Tehran, Iran, Wednesday, Oct. 18, 2023. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)
The words meaning “Death to France, supporter of Israel” and "#BloodyVeto” are written on a wall of the French embassy in Tehran, Iran, during an anti-Israel protest, early Wednesday, Oct. 18, 2023. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)
A protester launches fireworks at riot police during a demonstration in solidarity with the Palestinian people in Gaza, near the U.S. embassy in Aukar, a northern suburb of Beirut, Lebanon, Wednesday, Oct. 18, 2023. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)
Lebanese army soldiers scuffle with protesters during a demonstration in solidarity with the Palestinian people in Gaza, near the U.S. embassy in Aukar, a northern suburb of Beirut, Lebanon, Wednesday, Oct. 18, 2023. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)
Palestinians look for survivors after an Israeli airstrike on Nusseirat refugee camp, Gaza Strip, Wednesday, Oct. 18, 2023. (AP Photo/Ali Mohmoud)
Palestinians try to rescue a child from under the rubble after Israeli airstrikes in Gaza City, Gaza Strip, Wednesday, Oct. 18, 2023. (AP Photo/Abed Khaled)
A Palestinian wounded in an Israeli bombardment is brought to a hospital in Deir el-Balah, Gaza Strip, Wednesday, Oct. 18, 2023. (AP Photo/Adel Hana)
Palestinians walk past the Al Nuseirat Bakery, destroyed in an Israeli airstrike, in Nusseirat refugee camp Gaza Strip, Wednesday, Oct. 18, 2023. (AP Photo/Hatem Moussa)
A Palestinian looks on from his house damaged by Israeli airstrikes in Rafah, southern Gaza Strip, Wednesday, Oct. 18, 2023. (AP Photo/Hatem Ali)
Smoke rises following an Israeli airstrike in the Gaza Strip, as seen from southern Israel, Wednesday, Oct. 18, 2023. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)
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