In Israel, a frightened woman runs down the street cradling a young girl in her arms as a car behind her is engulfed in a ball of flames from an unprecedented surprise attack by Hamas militants.
![Police officers evacuate a woman and a child from a site hit by a rocket fired from the Gaza Strip. Photo / AP](https://www.nzherald.co.nz/resizer/v2/C6TVFG4YLZA7BJJQUSC3S3WBWQ.jpg?auth=7acbdc072f5c5623c77b90f57d073369eb107e21bc4a104b5a67ad44848628b8&width=16&height=11&quality=70&smart=true)
In Gaza City, an anguished Palestinian woman embraces the head of a dead man carried by a crowd through the streets after he was killed in retaliation by Israeli forces.
![Mourners pray by the bodies of Salem Abu Quta family members, a Hamas fighter, during a funeral after they were killed in an Israeli strike on their house in Rafah refugee camp, southern Gaza Strip. Photo / AP](https://www.nzherald.co.nz/resizer/v2/ZZVWIBKHPNDTDP3IMHRJPANLAU.jpg?auth=bda927918ac51e9a3b33d6f89a37030c92da0ec97fe2fd2a21b4a7c5a104ec63&width=16&height=11&quality=70&smart=true)
The images are just two of hundreds by Associated Press photographers that show the destruction, terror and sadness on both sides of the conflict — and the triumph by some Palestinians who see the attack as a victory. Hundreds have been killed on both sides of the border in fighting that continued on Sunday.