Week in Pictures: From Israeli-made famine in Gaza to wildfires in Spain
A global roundup of some of last week’s events.
Sham Qudeih, a two-year-old Palestinian girl, is held by her mother at the Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip. A United Nations-backed global hunger monitor has confirmed that famine conditions now exist in Gaza City and its surrounding areas. According to the Integrated Food Security Phase Classifications (IPC), more than 500,000 people face “catastrophic conditions” – the severest level on its food shortage scale, “characterised by starvation, destitution and death” – in the Gaza Strip. [Haitham Imad/EPA]
Published On 24 Aug 202524 Aug 2025
From Russian missile strikes on Kharkiv to refugees escaping Sudan’s war, here is a look at the week in photos.
Women do laundry at the Renk transit centre in South Sudan, which provides shelter for more than 12,000 people who have fled the war in Sudan. [Adlai Coleman/AP Photo]
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Daria Toma, 15, from the Romanian National Opera’s Ballet Studio, performs outside the National History Museum of Romania during Dance Night. The event showcases diverse dance styles along Bucharest’s Calea Victoriei avenue. [Andreea Alexandru/AP Photo]Rescuers evacuate an injured civilian after a Russian missile hit a residential building in Kharkiv, Ukraine. [Andrii Marienko/AP Photo]Afghan citizen Saima, 27, tends to her month-old son Danial, sitting beside her mother-in-law Shukria, in a public park where they have sought refuge after being evicted. This comes as Pakistan begins deporting documented Afghan refugees before the deadline for their departure from Islamabad, Pakistan. [Akhtar Soomro/Reuters]A military school band performs in tribute to victims killed the previous day in a car bomb attack outside an air force base in Cali, Colombia. The attack was one of two separate incidents that killed at least 18 people and left dozens wounded across Colombia. In Cali, the nation’s third-largest city, a vehicle packed with explosives detonated on Thursday near a military aviation school, resulting in six deaths and 71 injuries, according to the mayor’s office. [Santiago Saldarriaga/AP Photo]A demonstrator raises her hand in a symbolic gesture while holding a doll during the nationwide march for Palestine in Sydney, Australia. [Hollie Adams/Reuters]
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Residents fight against a wildfire approaching Rebordondo village, near Ourense, in northwestern Spain. [Pablo Garcia/AP Photo]A devotee of the spiritual path, known locally as a Malang, performs the traditional Sufi trance dance, called Dhamaal, during the three-day annual festival, or Urs, celebrating the mystic and scholar Hazrat Ali Hajveri, popularly known as Data Ganj Bakhsh, at his shrine in Lahore, Pakistan. [KM Chaudary/AP Photo]Russian soldiers carry a giant St George ribbon, a symbol of Soviet participation in World War II, during the Spasskaya Tower International Military Music Festival in Red Square in front of the St Basil Cathedral and the Spasskaya Tower in Moscow, Russia. [Alexander Zemlianichenko/AP Photo]
