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Tefe, Brazil
Children play on trees at the Deus e Pai community in Tefe.
Photograph: Pilar Olivares/Reuters
Beit Lahia, Gaza
A Palestinian child carrying a parcel of food cries as people gather for a mass fast-breaking iftar meal during the Muslim holy fasting month of Ramadan.
Photograph: Omar Al-Qattaa/AFP/Getty Images
Photograph: Ferdi Limani/Getty Images
Photograph: Alexandros Avramidis/Reuters
Gaza City
A woman searches through the rubble in a former school, now a camp, after an Israeli strike in Gaza City. Massive Israeli airstrikes shattered the two-month ceasefire on Tuesday, killing more than 400. A further 20 Palestinians died in further attacks on Wednesday, local health officials said.
Photograph: Omar Al-Qattaa/AFP/Getty Images
Mea Shearim, Jerusalem
Ultra-Orthodox Jews celebrate the holiday of Purim in the Mea Shearim neighbourhood. Purim celebrates the Jews’ salvation from genocide in ancient Persia, as recounted in the Scroll of Esther.
Photograph: Abir Sultan/EPA
Nir Oz, Israel
Einav Zangauker, the mother of the hostage Matan Zangauker, crawls under the border fence between Israel and Gaza to demonstrate. Tens of thousands of Israelis took to the streets to call for a new ceasefire in Gaza and to protest against what they say is an attack on the country’s democracy by the rightwing governing coalition of Benjamin Netanyahu.
Photograph: Amir Cohen/Reuters
Khan Younis, Gaza
Injured Palestinians wait for treatment at a hospital following Israeli army airstrikes in Khan Younis. The wave of deadly airstrikes that shattered the pause in hostilities in Gaza is ‘only the beginning’, Benjamin Netanyahu warned, promising that the new offensive would continue until Israel achieved all of its war aims – destroying Hamas and freeing all hostages held by the militant group.
Photograph: Mohammad Jahjouh/AP
Beit Lahia, Gaza
A Palestinian girl struggles as she and others wait to receive donated food at a distribution centre.
Photograph: Abdel Kareem Hana/AP
Beit Hanoun, Gaza
A girl pulls a cart loaded with belongings as Palestinians flee their homes after the Israeli army issued evacuation orders for a number of neighbourhoods in Beit Hanoun. Thousands of Palestinians were on the move in Gaza again this week after a wave of Israeli airstrikes signalled the end of almost two months of calm in the devastated territory.
Photograph: Abd Elhkeem Khaled/Reuters
Ukraine
Natalia, 51, a mother of three, serving as a combat medic in the 24th Mechanized Brigade, takes part in a field training exercise in an undisclosed location in the eastern region of Ukraine. Waves of Russian drones pounded the Ukrainian port city of Odesa this week, setting it ablaze in an attack that underscored Moscow’s intent to continue aerial assaults despite agreeing to a temporary pause in strikes on energy infrastructure.
Photograph: Roman Pilipey/AFP/Getty Images
Khartoum, Sudan
Sudanese army soldiers celebrate after taking control of the Republican Palace. The Sudanese army recaptured the palace in a highly symbolic battlefield victory over the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces in the country’s catastrophic civil war.
Photograph: AP
Jos, Nigeria
A farm worker spreads water in the Lamingo dam fields in Jos. The central city is becoming something of an agri-tech hub which would help take some of the chance and guesswork out of farming.
Photograph: Olympia de Maismont/AFP/Getty Images
Napa, California, US
Water drops down the Morning Glory spillway at Lake Berryessa. The circular drain is 72ft in diameter and sends overflow water 200ft down through a large tunnel and eventually downstream to control water levels at the Monticello Dam.
Photograph: Josh Edelson/AFP/Getty Images
Photograph: Keegan Barber/NASA/AFP/Getty Images
Budapest, Hungary
Coloured smoke is set off in the Hungarian parliament as it voted on a bill that would ban the country’s Pride march. MPs did vote to ban Pride events and to allow authorities to use facial recognition software to identify attenders, in what Amnesty International has described as a ‘full-frontal attack’ on LGBTQ+ people.
Photograph: Márton Mónus/Reuters
Glasgow, Scotland
People take part in Holi festival celebrations at Rouken Glen Park in Glasgow.
Photograph: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images
Paarl, South Africa
Cyclists take part in stage four of the Absa Cape Epic mountain bike race in South Africa. This year’s event involves 600 teams tackling a 600km route over eight days, with 16,500 metres of climbing.
Photograph: Kim Ludbrook/EPA
London, England
People sit on a ledge in the spring sun outside the Bank of England in London. Worse-than-expected public spending data has piled pressure on chancellor Rachel Reeves in the run-up to next week’s spring statement, with UK government borrowing rising by much more than expected last month to £10.7bn.
Photograph: Dan Kitwood/Getty Images
London, England
A passenger stands outside Terminal 3 at Heathrow airport. Counter-terror police were leading the investigation into the ‘unprecedented’ electrical substation fire that closed down London Heathrow, stopping more than 1,300 flights as engineers tried to restore power to the airport on Friday.
Photograph: Tolga Akmen/EPA
