Members of a Palestinian family comfort a child in shock as they leave their destroyed home following Israeli airstrikes on Gaza City on October 9, 2023. Stunned by the unprecedented assault on its territory, a grieving Israel has counted over 700 dead and launched a withering barrage of strikes on Gaza that have raised the death toll there to 493 according to Palestinian officials. (Photo by Eyad AL-BABA / AFP) (Photo by EYAD AL-BABA/AFP via Getty Images)