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Topshots of the Week (24-30 August, 2024)
A selection of some of the most striking photographs taken by AFP photojournalists from August 24th to August 30th, 2024.
A Hezbollah drone is intercepted by Israeli air forces in the north of the country on August 25, 2024. The Israeli military announced conducting pre-emptive strikes in Lebanon after detecting preparations for "large-scale" attacks by the Iran-backed militant group. Hezbollah said it had launched more than 320 rockets at Israel overnight, targeting a string of military positions.
© Jalaa MAREY / AFP
Flood affected people take shelter inside a school building in Daganbhuiyan in Feni, on August 25, 2024. River waters in Bangladesh are receding after days of deadly floods, 300,000 people are still in emergency shelters requiring aid, disaster officials said.
© Munir UZ ZAMAN / AFP
Armenian sculptors', Armen Samvelyane, bust of Jesus Christ at a workshop in Yerevan, August 26, 2024. After completion, it will be 33 meters high. The statue is to be erected on Mount Hatis, 30km from Yerevan, from where it will be visible, said the sculptor, who has been working on the project for two years.
© Karen MINASYAN / AFP
A man puts flowers to commemorate fallen Ukrainian military members at the "Wall of Remembrance of the Fallen for Ukraine" in Kyiv, on August 29, 2024, on the Day Of Remembrance for Ukrainian Defenders.
© Roman PILIPEY / AFP
People take shelter in the Teatralna metro station during a Russian air attack, in Kyiv, on August 26, 2024, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine. That day, Russian drones and missiles targeted 15 regions across Ukraine in an overnight barrage aimed mainly at energy infrastructure, Ukrainian Prime Minister Denys Shmygal said.
© Roman PILIPEY / AFP
An elderly man holds a child by the hand as he walks past a building levelled by Israeli bombardment in the Bureij refugee camp in central Gaza Strip on August 25, 2024, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Hamas militant group.
© Eyad BABA / AFP
Journalists gather on a destroyed road as they cover the second day of a large-scale military operation on the Nur Shams refugee camp in Tulkarem in the occupied West Bank on August 29, 2024. The death toll climbed as the Israeli army said it killed five militants in Tulkarem, bringing to 14 the overall number of people killed since the launch of the West Bank operation the previous day.
© Jaafar ASHTIYEH / AFP
Family members of the Toraja ethnic group dress the exhumed body of their relative during the traditional ritual known as Manene in Pangala, South Sulawesi, on August 27, 2024. Manene involves the exhumation, cleaning and redressing of deceased relatives to honour them.
© Hariandi HAFID / AFP