Photos of the Week: Ongoing global tensions on war in Israel, Gaza
By Jessi Dodge · October 20, 2023
(RNS) — Each week Religion News Service presents a gallery of photos of religious expression around the world. This week’s photo gallery includes global reactions and effects of the ongoing war in Israel and Gaza.
Palestinians displaced by the Israeli bombardment of the Gaza Strip sit in a UNDP-provided tent camp in Khan Younis on Thursday, Oct. 19, 2023. (AP Photo/Fatima Shbair)
In this photo provided by the Government of Israel, Judith Raanan, right, and her 17-year-old daughter Natalie are escorted by Israeli soldiers and Gal Hirsch, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's special coordinator for returning the hostages, as they return to Israel from captivity in the Gaza Strip, Friday, Oct. 20, 2023. Hamas released the pair in what it said was a goodwill gesture late Friday, nearly two weeks after they were captured in a bloody cross-border raid by the Islamic militant group. The Hamas attack sparked a war that is entering its third week, and Hamas is believed to still be holding some 200 people hostage. (Government of Israel via AP Photo)
Israeli Iron Dome air defense system fires to intercept a rocket fired from the Gaza Strip, in Ashkelon, Israel, Friday, Oct. 20, 2023. (AP Photo/Avi Roccah)
Palestinians crowding to buy bread from a bakery, in Khan Younis, Gaza Strip, Oct. 15, 2023. Since the Israeli military cut off the Gaza Strip’s water and fuel and prevented aid convoys from entering, Palestinians in Gaza have sheltered with their families far from their homes and struggled to survive. It’s a grueling routine — waiting hours for bread, trying to find water, soothing children during bombings. (AP Photo/Fatima Shbair)
Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby meets with Patriarch Theophilos III in reaction to the ongoing conflict in Israel. Photo courtesy of the Archbishop of Canterbury X (formerly Twitter)
Israelis evacuate a site struck by a rocket fired from the Gaza Strip, in Ashkelon, southern Israel, Monday, Oct. 9, 2023. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)
Israelis take cover in a shelter as a siren sounds a warning of incoming rockets fired from the Gaza strip, in Tel Aviv, Israel, Saturday, Oct. 14, 2023. (AP Photo/Gideon Markowicz)
Israeli soldiers help a woman as she gets on a bus to evacuate from the northern Israeli city of Kiryat Shmona, Israel, Friday, Oct. 20, 2023. The Israeli military announced Friday it would evacuate the border city a day after three residents were injured by cross-border fire from militants in Lebanon. (AP Photo/Baz Ratner)
Israeli soldiers walk past houses destroyed by Hamas militants in Kibbutz Be'eri, Israel, Saturday, Oct. 14, 2023. The kibbutz was overrun by Hamas militants from the nearby Gaza Strip on Cot.7, when they killed and captured many Israelis. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)
A protester stands under a large Palestinian flag during a rally supporting the Palestinian people outside the U.S. Embassy in Jakarta, Indonesia, Friday, Oct. 20, 2023. Hundreds of people staged protests in Indonesia's capital Friday to denounce the staunch American support for Israel and demand an end to Israeli airstrikes on the Gaza Strip. (AP Photo/Dita Alangkara)
Protesters shout anti-Israel slogans during a rally to show solidarity with the people of Gaza after Friday prayers at Azhar mosque, the Sunni Muslim world's premier Islamic institution, in Cairo, Egypt, Friday, Oct. 20, 2023. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil)
A Filipino activist tries to put out candles inside paper bags written with slogans after saying prayers calling for an immediate ceasefire and the establishment of a humanitarian corridor to ensure the safe passage of aid and civilians trapped during the Israel and Palestinian conflict as they gathered on Friday, Oct. 20, 2023 in Quezon city, Philippines. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila)
Hundreds of demonstrators calling for a cease-fire in Gaza gathered in the U.S. Capitol's Cannon House Office Building rotunda on Oct. 18, 2023. The group was primarily organized by Jewish Voice for Peace. RNS photo by Jack Jenkins
A young boy paints on a wall next to photos of Israelis missing and held captive by Hamas Militants in Tel Aviv, on Saturday Oct. 21, 2023. Relatives of people kidnapped by Hamas militants and supporters organise a protest Saturday calling for the return of more than 200 hostages held in Gaza for two weeks.(AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)
Relatives of people kidnapped by Hamas militants hold the pictures of their loved ones during a protest in Tel Aviv, on Saturday, Oct. 21, 2023. Relatives of people kidnapped by Hamas militants and supporters organise a protest calling for the return of more than 200 hostages held in Gaza for two weeks. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)
FILE - Israeli soldiers carry the flag-covered coffin of Shilo Rauchberger at the Mount Herzl cemetery in Jerusalem, Thursday, Oct. 12, 2023. In Israel on Saturday, rabbis worked around the clock at Shura military base in Israel to identify and count the dead civilians and soldiers gunned down in the Hamas attack last week. Israel's military rabbinate is working on Shabbat for the first time since 2005. Some of the bodies have been brought to Mount Herzl, Israel's national cemetery in Jerusalem. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco, File)
Family members of Wadea Al-Fayoume bring out his casket from the Mosque Foundation to the hearse in Bridgeview, Ill., Oct. 16, 2023. An Illinois landlord accused of fatally stabbing the 6-year-old Muslim boy and seriously wounding his mother was charged with a hate crime after police and relatives said he singled out the victims because of their faith and as a response to the war between Israel and Hamas. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh)
Greek Orthodox Archbishop Alexios holds a funeral prayer for Palestinians who were killed in Israeli airstrikes that hit a Greek Orthodox church, in Gaza City, Friday, Oct. 20, 2023. (AP Photo/Abed Khaled)
