
Palestinian children peer from their makeshift tent amid rubble in Gaza City (12 May 2025). The temporary shelter stands as Israel’s PM Netanyahu rejects ceasefire despite Hamas’ release of a US-Israeli hostage that day. (Photo by OMar Al-Qattaa/AFP Photo)
Injured Palestinian children receive treatment at Nasser Hospital following an Israeli airstrike in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, May 19, 2025. (Photo by Hatem Khaled/Reuters)
Sophie Hawkshaw, 9, as Headless Horseman at kids’ dressage competition, in Athenry, Ireland on May 25, 2025. (Photo by Clodagh Kilcoyne/Reuters)
Children pose for a group photo beneath cherry blossoms in St. Petersburg’s Friendship Garden during an unusual spring snowfall, in the Friendship Garden of St. Petersburg, on a snowy April 26, 2025. (Photo by Dmitri Lovetsky/AP Photo)
“Raghad and her sister Mira clutch their cooking pots while waiting for food in Muwasi, near Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip, April 24, 2025. (Photo by Abdel Kareem Hana/AP Photo)
Buddhist monks pray during Vesak Day celebrations (also called Buddha Purnima or Buddha Jayanti) organized by the Maha Bodhi Society in Bangalore, India, May 12, 2025. The festival commemorates the birth, enlightenment, and death of Gautama Buddha. (Photo: Jagadeesh N.V./EPA/EFE)
Palestinians line up for donated food at a community kitchen in Khan Younis, Gaza Strip, Friday, May 16, 2025. (Photo by Abdel Kareem Hana/AP Photo)
Injured Palestinian child Yousef Al-Bayouk mourns over his brothers, Moath and Moataz, killed in Israeli airstrikes, during their funeral at Nasser hospital in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, on May 15, 2025. (Photo by Hatem Khaled/Reuters)
Palestinians line up for food aid from charity groups amid severe shortages caused by the Israeli blockade, as airstrikes continue in Jabalia Refugee Camp in Gaza City, Gaza on May 26, 2025. (Photo by Mahmoud Issa/Anadolu via Getty Images)
Young women in traditional ‘Panchitas’ dresses accompany a procession during the 43rd Palms and Flowers Festival in Panchimalco, El Salvador, May 11, 2025. The event marks the start of the rainy season with floral-decorated palm fronds.(Photo by Alex Pena/Anadolu via Getty Images)
Mourners gather at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis for the funeral of Palestinians killed in Israeli airstrikes, in the southern Gaza Strip, on May 23, 2025. (Photo by Hatem Khaled/Reuters)
Yemeni children participate in a pro-Palestinian rally in Houthi-controlled Sanaa, May 23, 2025, protesting Israeli actions in Gaza and condemning US policy. (Photo by Mohammed Huwais/AFP Photo)
A boy performs a lion dance during the Piu Sik Parade at Cheung Chau’s Bun Festival, Hong Kong, May 5, 2025. The centuries-old event, celebrating the end of a Qing dynasty plague, features bun-scrambling competitions and colorful parades. (Photo by Bertha Wang/EPA/EFE)
A Kashmiri girl waits with her family to evacuate following overnight shelling in Uri, Indian-administered Kashmir, May 9, 2025. The displacement comes after cross-border exchanges between Indian and Pakistani forces involving drones and missiles in recent days. (Photo by Farooq Khan/EPA/EFE)
Indian students participate in a civil defense drill at a Kolkata school, May 7, 2025, amid heightened border tensions with Pakistan. The exercise coincided with the worst cross-border artillery exchanges in two decades between the nuclear-armed neighbors. (Photo by Dibyangshu Sarkar/AFP Photo)
A demonstrator joins the National March for Palestine in London of Nakba Day on May 17, 2025 in London, England. (Photo by Alishia Abodunde/Getty Images)
A boy cools off in water from a broken fire hydrant during a record heatwave in Rosemead, California, May 10, 2025. (Photo by Ringo Chiu/ZUMA Press Wire/Rex Features/Shutterstock)
Five-year-old Preston Prescher helps his mother clean storm damage at their Juneau, Wisconsin home on May 16, 2025, after tornadoes struck Dodge County. (Photo by Mike De Sisti/Milwaukee Journa)
Children play in the surf on Yemen’s Socotra island, on September 22, 2024. (Photo by Annika Hammerschlag/AP Photo)
A Qaldoun al-Marah villager harvests Damascene roses in Al-Nabk, Syria (21 May 2025). The region is famed for this UNESCO-listed cultural heritage (2019), whose essence produces premium rose oil for European perfumeries—especially France—alongside rose water and cosmetics. (Photo: Hasan Belal/EPA)

























