Special to The Washington Post
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December 31, 2023
Israel Defense Forces soldiers survey a damaged house in the Israeli village of Kfar Aza on Oct. 10, 2023. (Lorenzo Tugnoli for The Washington Post)
Life in Israel and in the West Bank has been forever transformed since Oct. 7, when Hamas fighters streamed out of Gaza to kill about 1,200 people in Israel and take 240 hostages.
The targeted kibbutzim and villages still show the signs of the unprecedented carnage that took place over several hours that day, while in the West Bank, Palestinians now live in fear of Israeli raids - either from the Israel Defense Forces or from settlers.
For the past three months, photographer Lorenzo Tugnoli has documented the breakdown of ordinary life across Israel and the West Bank.
Here are some of his images.
A boy searches the ruins of the Al-Ansar mosque in Jenin on Oct. 22, 2023. (Lorenzo Tugnoli for The Washington Post)
Blood on the floor of a house in Kibbutz Beeri on Oct. 11, 2023. (Lorenzo Tugnoli for The Washington Post)
Palestinian militiamen gather during the Oct. 20, 2023, funeral for 13 people killed in an Israeli raid in Nur Shams refugee camp in the West Bank. (Lorenzo Tugnoli for The Washington Post)
Zoufi, the commander of the al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, the military faction of the Fatah party that is designated a terrorist organization by the United States and others, sits with his son in the Balata refugee camp in the West Bank on Oct. 17, 2023. (Lorenzo Tugnoli for The Washington Post)
A tank maneuvers on a dusty road near Kibbutz Beeri on Oct. 11, 2023. (Lorenzo Tugnoli for The Washington Post)
The funeral of Bilal Saleh, a Palestinian man in the West Bank village of Sawiya who was fatally shot by a settler Oct. 28, 2023, while picking olives on his land. (Lorenzo Tugnoli for The Washington Post)
The family of Kim Demati, who was killed by Hamas militants, at her funeral in the town of Gadara, Israel, on Oct. 12, 2023. (Lorenzo Tugnoli for The Washington Post)
Settlers stage a sit-in Nov. 8, 2023, at the main intersection in front of the Shave Shomron settlement in the West Bank. (Lorenzo Tugnoli for The Washington Post)
The funeral procession of a Palestinian killed during an Israeli raid in Nur Shams refugee camp in the West Bank on Oct. 20, 2023. (Lorenzo Tugnoli for The Washington Post)
In the West Bank, Palestinian workers from Gaza pray on Oct. 16, 2023, as they wait to return home. (Lorenzo Tugnoli for The Washington Post)
Bodies remained on a road in Kibbutz Beeri on Oct. 11 2023. (Lorenzo Tugnoli for The Washington Post)
The aftermath of a raid on Oct. 20, 2023, by Israeli forces at Nur Shams refugee camp in the West Bank. (Lorenzo Tugnoli for The Washington Post)