From the escalation of tensions between Israel and Palestine to Donald Trump defiantly escaping an assassination attempt to become the number one citizen of the United States. A Kenyan nation rising up in protest of a tax bill to the dream of Olympic glory, here are some pictures that made the year 2024.
Poles light flares during a rally to mark the 80th anniversary of the Warsaw Uprising against Nazi occupiers in Warsaw, Poland on August 1, 2024. – The armed insurgency against occupying Nazi German forces broke out on August 1, 1944 and lasted for two months before it was crushed. Nearly 200,000 people, mostly civilians, died over the course of 63 days of battle, and the Polish capital was reduced to a pile of rubble. (Photo by Sergei GAPON / AFP) / NO USE AFTER JANUARY 31, 2025 23:00:00 GMT – AFP PICTURES OF THE YEAR 2024
A man takes cover behind a column as an explosion propagates smoke and dust during an Israeli strike which reportedly targeted a school in the Zeitoun district on the outskirts of Gaza City, on September 1, 2024, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Hamas group. (Photo by Omar AL-QATTAA / AFP) / NO USE AFTER JANUARY 31, 2025 23:00:00 GMT – AFP PICTURES OF THE YEAR 2024
This photograph taken from the Musee des Arts Decoratifs (MAD) shows the crowd pointing their phones towards the cauldron of the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games during its takeoff as it is attached to a balloon, in the Tuileries garden in Paris, with the Eiffel tower in the background, on August 8, 2024. (Photo by JOEL SAGET / AFP) / NO USE AFTER JANUARY 31, 2025 23:00:00 GMT – AFP PICTURES OF THE YEAR 2024
This photograph shows a Hezbollah UAV intercepted by Israeli air forces over northern Israel on August 25, 2024. – The Israeli military announced early on August 25, 2024 that it was conducting pre-emptive strikes in Lebanon after detecting preparations for “large-scale” attacks by the Iran-backed militant group Hezbollah. Hezbollah said it had launched more than 320 rockets at Israel overnight, targeting a string of military positions, even as Israel’s military said it was carrying out pre-emptive strikes against the group. (Photo by Jalaa MAREY / AFP) / NO USE AFTER JANUARY 31, 2025 23:00:00 GMT – AFP PICTURES OF THE YEAR 2024
Anti-government protestors display Bangladesh’s national flag as they storm Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s palace in Dhaka on August 5, 2024. – Bangladesh army chief Waker-Uz-Zaman spent nearly four decades rising to the top of the military and said on August 5, he was “taking full responsibility” after Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina was ousted and fled (Photo by K M ASAD / AFP) / NO USE AFTER JANUARY 31, 2025 23:00:00 GMT – AFP PICTURES OF THE YEAR 2024
US’ Simone Biles competes in the artistic gymnastics women’s balance beam final during the Paris 2024 Olympic Games at the Bercy Arena in Paris, on August 5, 2024. (Photo by Loic VENANCE / AFP) / NO USE AFTER JANUARY 31, 2025 23:00:00 GMT – AFP PICTURES OF THE YEAR 2024
Palestinians mourn over the body of a relative killed in an Israeli strike, ahead of their funeral in Khan Yunis, in the southern Gaza Strip, on August 12, 2024, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Hamas militant group. – The health ministry in Hamas-run Gaza said on August 15 that the death toll has crossed 40,000 in the 10-month war between Israel and Palestinian militants. (Photo by Bashar TALEB / AFP) / NO USE AFTER JANUARY 31, 2025 23:00:00 GMT – AFP PICTURES OF THE YEAR 2024
A Ukrainian military vehicle drives from the direction of the border with Russia carrying blindfolded men in Russian military uniforms, in the Sumy region, on August 13, 2024, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine. – On August 6, 2024, Ukraine launched an offensive surprise into the Russian border region of Kursk capturing over two dozen towns and villages in the most significant cross-border attack on Russian territory since World War II. Ukraine’s military chief Oleksandr Syrsky told the Ukrainian President in a video posted on August 12, 2024 that his troops now control about 1,000 square kilometres of Russian territory and are continuing “offensive operations”. (Photo by Roman PILIPEY / AFP) / NO USE AFTER JANUARY 31, 2025 23:00:00 GMT – AFP PICTURES OF THE YEAR 2024
This photograph shows veiled mannequins dressed in women’s attire, at a shop in Kabul, on July 22, 2024. In Afghanistan’s capital, shop windows display dazzling ball gowns and three-piece wedding suits with the face of each mannequin covered. – In Afghanistan’s capital, shop windows display dazzling ball gowns and three-piece wedding suits with the face of each mannequin covered.
The morality police have asked stores to hide the mannequins’ faces and photographs of models, according to a clothes seller in Kabul. (Photo by Wakil KOHSAR / AFP)
Palestinians receive cooked food rations as part of a volunteer initiative in a makeshift displacement camp in Mawasi Khan Yunis in the besieged Gaza Strip on September 3, 2024, amid the ongoing war between Israel and the Palestinian Hamas movement. (Photo by Bashar TALEB / AFP) / NO USE AFTER JANUARY 31, 2025 23:00:00 GMT – AFP PICTURES OF THE YEAR 2024
Spain’s Rafael Nadal gestures to the public as he leaves the court after losing against Germany’s Alexander Zverev in their men’s singles match on Court Philippe-Chatrier on day two of The French Open tennis tournament at The Roland Garros Complex in Paris on May 27, 2024. (Photo by Anne-Christine POUJOULAT / AFP) / NO USE AFTER JANUARY 31, 2025 23:00:00 GMT – AFP PICTURES OF THE YEAR 2024
A person throws a drink in the face of newly appointed leader of Britain’s right-wing populist party, Reform UK, and the party’s parliamentary candidate for Clacton, Nigel Farage, during his general election campaign launch in Clacton-on-Sea, eastern England, on June 4, 2024. – Nigel Farage on Monday said he would stand as a candidate for the anti-immigration Reform UK party in Britain’s general election next month, after initially ruling out running. “I have changed my mind… I am going to stand,” Farage, 60, told a news conference. He will seek election on July 4 in the fiercely pro-Brexit seat of Clacton, southeast England. (Photo by Ben Stansall / AFP) / NO USE AFTER JANUARY 31, 2025 23:00:00 GMT – AFP PICTURES OF THE YEAR 2024
Tsavora Fencing Mtaani Club members take part in a fencing bout during a ‘fencing mtaani’, meaning ‘fencing in the streets’ in Swahili, training session in the Mathare informal settlement of Nairobi, on June 9, 2024. – Along the muddy tracks of the sprawling Mathare informal settlement in Kenya’s capital, scores of teenagers train each weekend under 27-year-old Mburu Wanyoike, whose initiative offers hope in a place bedevilled by crime and lack of opportunity. (Photo by LUIS TATO / AFP) / NO USE AFTER JANUARY 31, 2025 23:00:00 GMT – AFP PICTURES OF THE YEAR 2024
Britain’s Catherine, Princess of Wales, rides the Glass State Coach at Horse Guards Parade during the King’s Birthday Parade “Trooping the Colour” in London on June 15, 2024. – Catherine, Princess of Wales, is making a tentative return to public life for the first time since being diagnosed with cancer, attending the Trooping the Colour military parade in central London. (Photo by BENJAMIN CREMEL / AFP) / NO USE AFTER JANUARY 31, 2025 23:00:00 GMT – AFP PICTURES OF THE YEAR 2024
France’s paralympic triple jumper Arnaud Assoumani poses in front of The Louvre Pyramide, designed by Ieoh Ming Pei, in Paris on April 20, 2024, ahead of the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic games. – The Louvre was originally built as a fortress in the late 12th century, became one of the main residences of the kings of France later and actually is one of the largest museum in the world. (Photo by Franck FIFE / AFP) / NO USE AFTER JANUARY 31, 2025 23:00:00 GMT – RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE
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In this pool photograph distributed by the Russian state agency Sputnik, North Korea’s leader Kim Jong Un (Center-R) and Russian President Vladimir Putin (L) walk past children during a welcoming ceremony at Kim Il Sung Square in Pyongyang on June 19, 2024. – Russian President Vladimir Putin landed in North Korea early on June 19, the Kremlin said, kicking off a visit set to boost defence ties between the two nuclear-armed countries as Moscow pursues its war in Ukraine. (Photo by Vladimir SMIRNOV / POOL / AFP) / NO USE AFTER JANUARY 31, 2025 23:00:00 GMT – — EDITOR’S NOTE : THIS IMAGE IS DISTRIBUTED BY THE RUSSIAN STATE OWNED AGENCY SPUTNIK —
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Kenyan Police officers and security personnel take positions to protect the Kenyan Parliament as protesters try to storm the building during a nationwide strike to protest against tax hikes and the Finance Bill 2024, in downtown Nairobi, on June 25, 2024. – Kenyan police shot dead one protester near the country’s parliament Tuesday, a rights watchdog said as demonstrators angry over proposed tax hikes breached barricades and entered the government complex, where a fire erupted. The mainly Gen-Z-led rallies, which began last week, have taken President William Ruto’s government by surprise, with the Kenyan leader saying over the weekend that he was ready to speak to the protesters. (Photo by LUIS TATO / AFP) / NO USE AFTER JANUARY 31, 2025 23:00:00 GMT – AFP PICTURES OF THE YEAR 2024
A tear gas canister explodes as protesters try to help injured people outside the Kenya Parliament during a nationwide strike to protest against tax hikes and the Finance Bill 2024, in downtown Nairobi, on June 25, 2024. – Kenyan police shot dead one protester near the country’s parliament Tuesday, a rights watchdog said as demonstrators angry over proposed tax hikes breached barricades and entered the government complex, where a fire erupted. The mainly Gen-Z-led rallies, which began last week, have taken President William Ruto’s government by surprise, with the Kenyan leader saying over the weekend that he was ready to speak to the protesters. (Photo by LUIS TATO / AFP) / NO USE AFTER JANUARY 31, 2025 23:00:00 GMT – AFP PICTURES OF THE YEAR 2024
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange (C) raises his fist upon arrival at Canberra Airport in Canberra on June 26, 2024, after he pleaded guilty at a US court in Saipan to a single count of conspiracy to obtain and disseminate US national defence information. – WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange returned home to Australia to start life as a free man June 26 after admitting he revealed US defence secrets in a deal that unlocked the door to his London prison cell. (Photo by David GRAY / AFP) / NO USE AFTER JANUARY 31, 2025 23:00:00 GMT – AFP PICTURES OF THE YEAR 2024
Rockets fired from southern Lebanon are intercepted by Israel’s Iron Dome air defence system over the Upper Galilee region in northern Israel on June 27, 2024 amid ongoing cross-border tensions as fighting continues between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza Strip. (Photo by Jalaa MAREY / AFP) / NO USE AFTER JANUARY 31, 2025 23:00:00 GMT – AFP PICTURES OF THE YEAR 2024
Demonstrators take part in a rally after the announcement of the results of the first round of French parliamentary elections, at Place de la Republique in Paris on June 30, 2024. – France’s far right won the first round of pivotal legislative elections on June 30, 2024, with the centrist forces of France’s President coming in only third behind the left after the highest turnout in over four decades, estimates said. (Photo by Dimitar DILKOFF / AFP) / NO USE AFTER JANUARY 31, 2025 23:00:00 GMT – AFP PICTURES OF THE YEAR 2024
Britain’s Labour Party leader Keir Starmer kisses his wife Victoria during a victory rally at the Tate Modern in London early on July 5, 2024. – The UK’s Labour Party swept to power after winning the country’s general election, crossing the 326-seat threshold for a working majority in the House of Commons. (Photo by JUSTIN TALLIS / AFP) / NO USE AFTER JANUARY 31, 2025 23:00:00 GMT – AFP PICTURES OF THE YEAR 2024
Republican Presidential candidate Donald Trump is seen with blood on his face surrounded by secret service agents as he is taken off the stage at a campaign event at Butler Farm Show Inc., in Butler, Pennsylvania, on July 13, 2024. – Donald Trump was hit in the ear in an apparent assassination attempt by a gunman at the campaign rally in a chaotic and shocking incident that will fuel fears of instability ahead of the 2024 US presidential election. The 78-year-old former president was rushed off stage with blood smeared across his face after the shooting while the gunman and a bystander were killed and two spectators critically injured. (Photo by Rebecca DROKE / AFP) / NO USE AFTER JANUARY 31, 2025 23:00:00 GMT – AFP PICTURES OF THE YEAR 2024
A Cuban fisherman prepares to fish on a makeshift raft in Havana Bay, on July 16, 2024. – When the weather permits, artisanal fishermen take to the water in improvised polystyrene rafts to make up for the lack of means and fuel. (Photo by YAMIL LAGE / AFP) / NO USE AFTER JANUARY 31, 2025 23:00:00 GMT – AFP PICTURES OF THE YEAR 2024
A Palestinian man carries the body of a child killed by Israeli bombardment outside the Nasser hospital in Khan Yunis following strikes east of the city, in the southern Gaza Strip, on July 22, 2024. – The nine-month-old war in the Palestinian territory raged on unabated on July 22, with Israel telling civilians in the eastern part of Khan Yunis to evacuate. (Photo by Bashar TALEB / AFP) / NO USE AFTER JANUARY 31, 2025 23:00:00 GMT – AFP PICTURES OF THE YEAR 2024
Women injured during Israeli bombardment arrive at the emergency ward at al-Nassr hospital in Khan Yunis, on the southern Gaza Strip on July 23, 2024, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian militant group Hamas. (Photo by Bashar TALEB / AFP) / NO USE AFTER JANUARY 31, 2025 23:00:00 GMT – AFP PICTURES OF THE YEAR 2024
Rescuers paddle their boats along a flooded street amid heavy rains brought by Typhoon Gaemi, in Manila, on July 24, 2024. – Relentless rain drenched the northern Philippines on July 24, triggering flooding in Manila and landslides in mountainous regions as Typhoon Gaemi intensified the seasonal monsoon. (Photo by Ted ALJIBE / AFP) / NO USE AFTER JANUARY 31, 2025 23:00:00 GMT – AFP PICTURES OF THE YEAR 2024
This photograph taken from an helicopter on July 26, 2024 in Paris shows an aerial view of the Eiffel Tower and the Olympics Rings illuminated during the opening ceremony of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games. (Photo by Lionel BONAVENTURE / POOL / AFP) / NO USE AFTER JANUARY 31, 2025 23:00:00 GMT – AFP PICTURES OF THE YEAR 2024
Torchbearers, French former sprinter Marie-Jose Perec and French judoka Teddy Riner, stand as the cauldron, with the Olympic flame lit, lifts off while attached to a balloon during the opening ceremony of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, at the Jardin des Tuileries (Tuileries Garden), in Paris, on July 26, 2024. (Photo by MOHD RASFAN / AFP) / NO USE AFTER JANUARY 31, 2025 23:00:00 GMT – AFP PICTURES OF THE YEAR 2024
Argentina’s Jose Torres Gil takes part in a BMX freestyle training session during the Paris 2024 Olympic Games at La Concorde in Paris on July 29, 2024. (Photo by JEFF PACHOUD / AFP) / NO USE AFTER JANUARY 31, 2025 23:00:00 GMT – AFP PICTURES OF THE YEAR 2024
Brazil’s Gabriel Medina reacts after catching a large wave in the 5th heat of the men’s surfing round 3, during the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, in Teahupo’o, on the French Polynesian Island of Tahiti, on July 29, 2024. (Photo by Jerome BROUILLET / AFP) / NO USE AFTER JANUARY 31, 2025 23:00:00 GMT – AFP PICTURES OF THE YEAR 2024
Bronze medalist South Korea’s Lim Jonghoon (L) takes a selfie picture with his mobile as he celebrates on the podium with: gold medalists China’s Wang Chuqin (rear R) and China’s Sun Yingsha (front L), silver medalists North Korea’s Ri Jong Sik (2nd L), and North Korea’s Kim Kum Yong (C) and bronze medallist and teammate South Korea’s Shin Yubin (rear R) at the end of their mixed table tennis doubles competition at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, at the South Paris Arena in Paris, on July 30, 2024. (Photo by JUNG Yeon-je / AFP) / NO USE AFTER JANUARY 31, 2025 23:00:00 GMT – AFP PICTURES OF THE YEAR 2024
Athletes compete in the swimming race in the Seine during the women’s individual triathlon at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games in central Paris on July 31, 2024. (Photo by MARTIN BUREAU / POOL / AFP) / NO USE AFTER JANUARY 31, 2025 23:00:00 GMT – AFP PICTURES OF THE YEAR 2024
France’s Leon Marchand celebrates after winning the final of the men’s 200m breaststroke swimming event during the Paris 2024 Olympic Games at the Paris La Defense Arena in Nanterre, west of Paris, on July 31, 2024. (Photo by Manan VATSYAYANA / AFP) / NO USE AFTER JANUARY 31, 2025 23:00:00 GMT – AFP PICTURES OF THE YEAR 2024
US Vice President Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris waves at supporters at the end of her concession speech at Howard University in Washington, DC, on November 6, 2024. – Donald Trump won a sweeping victory on November 6, 2024 in the US presidential election, defeating Kamala Harris to complete an astonishing political comeback that sent shock waves around the world. (Photo by SAUL LOEB / AFP) / NO USE AFTER JANUARY 31, 2025 23:00:00 GMT – AFP PICTURES OF THE YEAR 2024
A portrait of slain Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah sits amidst debris in the Rouweiss neighbourhood of Beirut’s southern suburb on October 10, 2024, following overnight Israeli strikes. – The United States urged its ally Israel to avoid Gaza-like military action in Lebanon, after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said it could face “destruction” like the Palestinian territory. (Photo by AFP) / NO USE AFTER JANUARY 31, 2025 23:00:00 GMT – AFP PICTURES OF THE YEAR 2024
Starship’s Super Heavy Booster is grappled at the launch pad during the Starship Flight 5 test in Starbase, near Boca Chica, Texas, on October 13, 2024. – SpaceX successfully “caught” the first-stage booster of its Starship megarocket Sunday as it returned to the launch pad after a test flight, a world first in the company’s quest for rapid reusability. (Photo by SERGIO FLORES / AFP) / NO USE AFTER JANUARY 31, 2025 23:00:00 GMT – AFP PICTURES OF THE YEAR 2024
A rocket fired by an Israeli war plane approaches a building in Beirut’s southern suburb of Shiyah on October 22, 2024, amid the ongoing war between Israel and Hezbollah. (Photo by AFP) / NO USE AFTER JANUARY 31, 2025 23:00:00 GMT – AFP PICTURES OF THE YEAR 2024
An injured Ukrainian soldier lies in a bed onboard a military evacuation train transporting Ukrainian servicemen wounded in frontline areas to hospitals, in an undisclosed location, on October 18, 2024, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine. – The train evacuations in Ukraine began when the war did, in February 2022, reviving process used in World War II, and now several refitted trains take wounded troops from the front. Nearly three years after Russian forces invaded Ukraine, many medical facilities in war-battered eastern Ukraine have been damaged or destroyed, and those untouched are overcrowded. For Oleksandr, the military doctor overseeing the evacuation, there are clear benefits to rail: many people can be moved at once and its safer than transporting wounded soldiers by helicopter, given Russian superiority in Ukraine’s airspace. But there are risks too, he said. “Our adversary in the war does not distinguish between what’s medical and military, so we take certain security measures”. (Photo by Roman PILIPEY / AFP) / NO USE AFTER JANUARY 31, 2025 23:00:00 GMT – AFP PICTURES OF THE YEAR 2024
King Felipe VI of Spain (CR) is heckled by angry residents who throw mud and objects during his visit to Paiporta, in the region of Valencia, eastern Spain, on November 3, 2024, in the aftermath of devastating deadly floods. – A delegation led by Spain’s King and Prime Minister was heckled as it visited the Valencia region hit by deadly floods, with some screaming “assassins” and others throwing mud, according to AFP journalists on the scene. King Felipe VI and Queen Letizia visited the town of Paiporta, one of the most affected by the floods that have killed more than 200 people, alongside Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez and other officials. (Photo by Manaure Quintero / AFP) / NO USE AFTER JANUARY 31, 2025 23:00:00 GMT – AFP PICTURES OF THE YEAR 2024
Supporters of US Vice President and Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris react during an election night event at Howard University in Washington, DC, on November 5, 2024. (Photo by CHARLY TRIBALLEAU / AFP) / NO USE AFTER JANUARY 31, 2025 23:00:00 GMT – AFP PICTURES OF THE YEAR 2024
Supporters of former US president and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump gather near his Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Florida, on Election Day, November 5, 2024. (Photo by Giorgio Viera / AFP) / NO USE AFTER JANUARY 31, 2025 23:00:00 GMT – AFP PICTURES OF THE YEAR 2024
Pedestrians stand next to piled up cars following deadly floods in Sedavi, south of Valencia, eastern Spain, on October 30, 2024. – Floods triggered by torrential rains in Spain’s eastern Valencia region has left at least 70 people dead, rescue services said on October 30. (Photo by Jose Jordan / AFP) / NO USE AFTER JANUARY 31, 2025 23:00:00 GMT – AFP PICTURES OF THE YEAR 2024
Gisele Pelicot poses for a photograph in Avignon on October 23, 2024, during the trial of her former partner accused of drugging her for nearly ten years and inviting strangers to rape her at their home in the small southern town of Mazan. – A court in the French southern town of Avignon is trying Dominique Pelicot, a 71-year-old retiree, for repeatedly raping and enlisting dozens of strangers to rape his heavily sedated wife in her own bed for over a decade. Fifty other men, aged between 26 and 74, are also on trial for alleged involvement, in a case that has horrified France. The court proceedings, which runs until December, are open to the public at the request of Dominique Pelicot’s ex-wife and victim. (Photo by Christophe SIMON / AFP) / NO USE AFTER JANUARY 31, 2025 23:00:00 GMT – AFP PICTURES OF THE YEAR 2024
Former US President and Republican Presidential candidate Donald Trump gestures at supporters as he holds hands with former US First Lady Melania Trump during an election night event at the West Palm Beach Convention Center, in West Palm Beach, Florida, early on November 6, 2024. – Republican former president Donald Trump closed in on a new term in the White House early November 6, 2024, just needing a handful of electoral votes to defeat Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris. (Photo by Jim WATSON / AFP) / NO USE AFTER JANUARY 31, 2025 23:00:00 GMT – AFP PICTURES OF THE YEAR 2024
A man rides a handmade raft through a flooded street following the passage of Hurricane Helene in Batabano, Mayabeque province, Cuba, on September 26, 2024. – Hurricane Helene strengthened to an “extremely dangerous” Category 4 storm as it barreled toward landfall on the Florida coast, US meteorologists said. (Photo by YAMIL LAGE / AFP) / NO USE AFTER JANUARY 31, 2025 23:00:00 GMT – AFP PICTURES OF THE YEAR 2024
Palestinians walk on a dirt road lined with rubble from destroyed buildings in the Shujaiya neighbourhood of Gaza City on October 7, 2024, on the first anniversary of the ongoing war in the Gaza Strip between Israel and the Palestinian Hamas group. (Photo by Omar AL-QATTAA / AFP) / NO USE AFTER JANUARY 31, 2025 23:00:00 GMT – AFP PICTURES OF THE YEAR 2024
People stand on top of the remains of an Iranian missile in the Negev desert, near Arad, in the aftermath of an Iranian missile attack on Israel, on October 2, 2024. – Israel vowed to make Iran “pay” for firing a barrage of missiles at its territory, with Tehran warning on October 2 it would launch an even bigger attack it is targeted. (Photo by Menahem KAHANA / AFP) / NO USE AFTER JANUARY 31, 2025 23:00:00 GMT – AFP PICTURES OF THE YEAR 2024
People look through the rubble of buildings which were levelled on September 27 by Israeli strikes that targeted and killed Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, in the Haret Hreik neighbourhood of Beirut’s southern suburbs, on September 29, 2024. – Israel killed Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah in a huge air strike in Lebanon, dealing the movement a seismic blow that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on September 28 called a “turning point” for his country. (Photo by AFP) / NO USE AFTER JANUARY 31, 2025 23:00:00 GMT – AFP PICTURES OF THE YEAR 2024
Relatives and friends mourn by the grave of Israeli soldier Eitan Itzhak Oster killed in fighting in the northern border area with Lebanon, during his funeral at the Mount Herzl Military Cemetery in Jerusalem on October 2, 2024. – Confirmation of the fighting in two areas of the border came hours after Iran launched its second-ever direct attack on Israel, with the Israeli army announcing that eight soldiers have been killed so far in combat in southern Lebanon. (Photo by Ahmad GHARABLI / AFP) / NO USE AFTER JANUARY 31, 2025 23:00:00 GMT – AFP PICTURES OF THE YEAR 2024
People take cover behind vehicles under a bridge along the side of a highway in Tel Aviv as sirens sounded in central Israel a day after the army launched ground operations into southern Lebanon, in Tel Aviv on October 1, 2024. – Air raid sirens sounded in central Israel on October 1, the military said, a day after the army launched ground operations into southern Lebanon targeting Hezbollah positions. “Sirens sounded in central Israel,” the military said, without providing details of the areas that were affected. (Photo by Jack GUEZ / AFP) / NO USE AFTER JANUARY 31, 2025 23:00:00 GMT – AFP PICTURES OF THE YEAR 2024
Smoke billows from the Airport Fire in Rancho Santa Margarita, California on September 9, 2024. – Wildfires fueled by soaring temperatures in the western United States have scorched thousands of acres, forcing hundreds of families to flee, US officials said September 9, 2024. A blaze burning out of a control near Los Angeles sparked mandatory evacuations as it tore through swathes of tinder-dry California countryside around popular tourist spots. (Photo by Patrick T. Fallon / AFP) / NO USE AFTER JANUARY 31, 2025 23:00:00 GMT – AFP PICTURES OF THE YEAR 2024
A Ukrainian infantry soldier of the 23rd Mechanized Brigade sits as he waits to deploy toward the frontline in the Avdiivka direction, in the Donetsk region, on April 3, 2024, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine. (Photo by Roman PILIPEY / AFP) / NO USE AFTER JANUARY 31, 2025 23:00:00 GMT – AFP PICTURES OF THE YEAR 2024
Sulan, a migrant from Venezuela, is comforted by her daughter as she cries while retelling her journey to reach El Paso, in Texas on April 2, 2024. – An appeals court is scheduled to hear arguments on the constitutionality of Senate Bill 4 that would allow state law enforcement officials to detain and arrest undocumented immigrants suspected of illegally crossing into the United States. (Photo by CHRISTIAN MONTERROSA / AFP) / NO USE AFTER JANUARY 31, 2025 23:00:00 GMT – AFP PICTURES OF THE YEAR 2024
The body of the late Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny is seen during the funeral service at the Mother of God Quench My Sorrows church in Moscow’s district of Maryino on March 1, 2024. (Photo by Dmitry LEBEDEV / Kommersant Photo / AFP) / Russia OUT / NO USE AFTER JANUARY 31, 2025 23:00:00 GMT – RUSSIA OUT / AFP PICTURES OF THE YEAR 2024
Local residents attend a memorial ceremony under a destroyed bridge in Irpin, northwest of Kyiv, on February 24, 2024, on the second anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. (Photo by Roman PILIPEY / AFP) / NO USE AFTER JANUARY 31, 2025 23:00:00 GMT – AFP PICTURES OF THE YEAR 2024
Mourners carry the body of a Palestinian man killed during an Israeli army military operation in Tulkarem, during his funeral on January 19, 2024. – The Israeli army carried out raids in different sectors of the occupied West Bank, notably in Tulkarem, where the Ministry of Health of the Palestinian Authority said at least six people had been killed since January 17. (Photo by MARCO LONGARI / AFP) / NO USE AFTER JANUARY 31, 2025 23:00:00 GMT – AFP PICTURES OF THE YEAR 2024
Palestinian newly-weds Afnan Jibril (C) and Mustafa Shamlakh (L) are surrounded by guests and relatives their wedding at the UNRWA School in the al-Salam neighborhood of Rafah, southern Gaza Strip, on January 12, 2024, amid continuing battles between Israel and the militant group Hamas. (Photo by Mahmud Hams / AFP) / NO USE AFTER JANUARY 31, 2025 23:00:00 GMT – AFP PICTURES OF THE YEAR 2024
