Photos: Gaza’s children return to class in tents and ruins
Gaza children return to classrooms after three years, facing challenges of damaged schools, tents, and scarce supplies.
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Palestinians build a room from mud bricks in Nuseirat in central Gaza, as construction supplies run short [File: Abdel Kareem Hana/AP Photo]
Palestinians make clay bricks in the Maghazi refugee camp amid severe shortages of construction materials in the Gaza Strip. [File: Abdel Kareem Hana/AP Photo]
Palestinians raise mud-brick walls as an alternative to scarce construction supplies in the Gaza Strip. [File: Abdel Kareem Hana/AP Photo]
Khalil Abu Ramadan, 26, moulds clay bricks in the Maghazi refugee camp in central Gaza. [File: Abdel Kareem Hana/AP Photo]
Palestinians fill plastic containers with water to mix clay for bricks in the Maghazi refugee camp in central Gaza. [File: Abdel Kareem Hana/AP Photo]
Khalil Abu Deeb, 31, makes clay bricks to rebuild a house in Gaza's Maghazi refugee camp. [File: Abdel Kareem Hana/AP Photo]
Palestinian carpenter Alaa Joudah, 39, cuts wood for a new house beside the ruins of his home, destroyed during the war in Gaza City. [File: Abdel Kareem Hana/AP Photo]
Julia Joudeh, 11, climbs to her new wooden house built on the rubble of her family home destroyed during the war in the Gaza Strip. [File: Abdel Kareem Hana/AP Photo]
Palestinians make clay bricks as Gaza faces a shortage of construction materials. [File: Abdel Kareem Hana/AP Photo]
Palestinian workers repair a war-damaged shop, using fabric in place of construction supplies unavailable in Gaza. [File: Abdel Kareem Hana/AP Photo]
Gaza authorities say more than 90 percent of the territory has been destroyed since Israel launched its offensive, leaving much of Gaza without adequate housing or basic infrastructure. [File: Abdel Kareem Hana/AP Photo]
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Soldiers rescue a worker from a tunnel during an ongoing operation at the Trishuli-3A hydropower project in Nepal's Rasuwa district. [Nepal Army via AP Photo]
The flooding that authorities say was likely caused by a glacial collapse last month has killed at least 1,384 people and left more than 5,500 missing, among them about 800 foreigners. [Pedro Pardo/AFP]
Flash flood survivors rest in a relief shelter at Devighat in Nepal's Nuwakot district. [Pedro Pardo/AFP]
The United Nations has launched an appeal for $50m to help more than 84,000 people, saying the destruction makes delivering aid an immense challenge. [Rajesh Kumar Singh/AP Photo]
Flash flood survivors collect aid from a temporary relief centre at Devighat in Nepal's Nuwakot district. [Pedro Pardo/AFP]
Nepal’s Foreign Minister Shisir Khanal has highlighted how leading greenhouse gas emitters have a 'historical responsibility to compensate vulnerable nations like Nepal'. [Pedro Pardo / AFP]
He added that the government has officially filed a 'formal climate compensation claim letter' to international partners. [Pedro Pardo / AFP]
Salvaged belongings ins a flash flood-damaged house in Devighat in Nepal. [Niranjan Shrestha/AP Photo]
While the exact cause of the glacial collapse remains under investigation, experts say that the frequency and scale of glacier floods have increased as global temperatures have risen. [Pedro Pardo/AFP]
A United Nations study found that floods have become nearly five times more frequent since 1950. [Prakash Mathema/AFP]
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Mass funeral for Palestinians recovered from beneath the rubble in Gaza [Dawoud Abu Alkas/Reuters]
Mourners carry bodies covered in Palestinian flags during the mass funeral in Gaza City. [Dawoud Abu Alkas/Reuters]
The victims recovered from rubble were killed by Israeli strikes in 2023. [Jehad Alshrafi/AP Photo]
Many of the dead came from the extended Malaka family, which alone lost 55 members, along with the Balawi, Salmi and other Zeitoun neighbourhood families. [Jehad Alshrafi/AP Photo]
Ajith Sunghay, head of the UN human rights office in the occupied Palestinian territories, told Al Jazeera that the scenes were a reminder of the "brutality of this conflict". [Jehad Alshrafi/AP Photo]
The remains were carried by family members from Zeitoun to al-Ma'madani cemetery in central Gaza City for burial. [Saeed M. M. T. Jaras/Anadolu]
Similar mass recovery operations in recent weeks have retrieved more than 100 bodies from the Abu Shariah and Hassaniya families killed in a single strike, and more than 500 from the al-Taj Tower site. [Jehad Alshrafi/AP Photo]
Gaza's Health Ministry says at least 73,651 Palestinians have been killed since October 2023. [Saeed M. M. T. Jaras/Anadolu]
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Relatives mourn during symbolic funerals held for flood victims still reported missing at Pashupatinath Temple in Kathmandu, Nepal. [Prakash Mathema/AFP]
Relatives carry kush grass effigies for cremation in accordance with Hindu rites during symbolic funerals held for flood victims still reported missing, at the Pashupatinath Temple in Kathmandu, Nepal. [Prakash Mathema/AFP]
Relatives make kush grass effigies for cremation at the Pashupatinath Temple. [Prakash Mathema/AFP]
Mourners attend symbolic funerals at the Pashupatinath Temple. [Prakash Mathema/AFP]
Relatives mourn during symbolic funerals at the Pashupatinath Temple. [Prakash Mathema/AFP]
The August 26 flash flood has been one of the deadliest disasters to hit the Himalayan nation in recent years. [Prakash Mathema/AFP]
The symbolic funeral ceremonies are meant to "liberate the souls" of loved ones missing since the deadly flash flood swept away their villages and homes in the Himalayan region. [Prakash Mathema/AFP]
Relatives cremate grass effigies during symbolic funerals at the Pashupatinath Temple. [Prakash Mathema/AFP]
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Bodies of victims of the deadly flash floods and mudslides lie in a pit at the Devghat mass burial site in Chitwan. [Adnan Abidi/Reuters]
A police officer stands on a vehicle next to a stretcher at the Devghat site. [Adnan Abidi/Reuters]
Police officers transport a body to the burial site. [Adnan Abidi/Reuters]
At least 17 bodies have been recovered from rivers far downstream in India. [Adnan Abidi/Reuters]
Nepalese authorities said 1,003 bodies have been recovered so far. [Adnan Abidi/Reuters]
Police officers cover the pit at the Devghat mass burial site. [Adnan Abidi/Reuters]
Police officers carry an empty stretcher after transferring a body. [Adnan Abidi/Reuters]
A healthcare worker holds his colleague's head during a break after handling the bodies of victims. [Francis Mascarenhas/Reuters]
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A relative of Prabita Roila, 32, who lost her life following deadly flash floods and a mudslide, lights her funeral pyre at the Suryamati River in Trishuli, Nuwakot district, Nepal. [Athit Perawongmetha/Reuters]
Members of the Nepal Army stand near retrieved bodies that were washed away following flash floods and a mudslide in the Narayani River, Chitwan, Nepal. [Navesh Chitrakar/Reuters]
Sunmaya Tamang waits outside an army camp for the news of her missing relatives in Nepal's Nuwakot district. [Rajesh Kumar Singh/AP]
People salvage belongings following flash floods that swept through Devighat in Nepal's Nuwakot district. [Arun Sankar/AFP]
Nepal's paramilitary force personnel carry the body of a flash flood victim for burial at a mass burial site in Chitwan, Nepal. [Dar Yasin/AP]
Muna Khadka, center, mother of Aayush Khada, who was killed in flash floods, breaks down during her son's cremation in Chitwan, Nepal. [Dar Yasin/AP]
Nepal's paramilitary forces arrange numbered identification tags in pots to mark the graves of flash flood victims at a mass burial site in Chitwan. [Dar Yasin/AP]
A boy climbs on a ledge to paste photographs of missing persons in the aftermath of flash floods at the Tribhuvan University Teaching hospital in Kathmandu as distraught families search for information on their missing relatives. [Manan Vatsyayana/AFP]
Kathmandu has appealed for international support, saying Nepal needed "more than a thousand" freezer units to store bodies. [Dar Yasin/AP Photo]
With mortuaries overflowing with the dead, Nepal has begun burying some of the hundreds of bodies recovered after taking DNA samples so families can later retrieve them. [Dar Yasin/AP Photo]
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A woman at Tribhuvan University Teaching Hospital in Kathmandu looks at photographs of people missing after the flash floods. [Manan Vatsyayana/AFP]
The flash flooding has left communities along the Trishuli River covered in mud and debris. [Rajesh Kumar Singh/AP Photo]
Relatives comfort Jantari Gurung, whose husband is missing, as she looks at photographs of people killed in the flash floods displayed outside a government hospital in Kathmandu. [Dar Yasin/AP Photo]
Damaged homes filled with mud and debris are seen in Devighat in Nepal’s Nuwakot district. [Rajesh Kumar Singh/AP Photo]
Emergency workers carry the bodies of flash flood victims for a mass burial in Nepal's Chitwan district. [Nisha Shrestha/AP Photo]
A girl sits inside a building damaged by the flash floods in the Dhading district of Nepal. [Niranjan Shrestha/AP Photo]
Rescue workers carry a flash flood victim to safety along the Trishuli River in Nepal’s Nuwakot district. [Niranjan Shrestha/AP Photo]
A woman stands on the roof of the mud-covered Baireni community in Nepal’s Dhading district. [Manan Vatsyayana/AFP]
Muddy floodwater surges past houses along the Trishuli River in Betrawati in Nepal’s Nuwakot district. [Prabin Ranabhat/AFP]
Sunita Chitrakar, 40, cries as she holds chickens she rescued from her house after deadly flash floods and mudslides in Devighat in Nepal’s Nuwakot district. [Athit Perawongmetha/Reuters]
A woman climbs out of a window after searching for belongings in a mud-filled house in Devighat. [Francis Mascarenhas/Reuters]
Houses in Baireni are covered in mud after the flash floods. [Manan Vatsyayana/AFP]
People salvage goods from a grocery store damaged by flash floods in the Dhading district. [Niranjan Shrestha/AP Photo]
A man walks through sludge in the aftermath of flash floods in Trishuli in Nepal’s Nuwakot district. [Arun Sankar/AFP]
A flash flood survivor is taken to a medical camp in Nepal’s Nuwakot district. [Rajesh Kumar Singh/AP Photo]
Fire and rescue personnel search for survivors at Gyirong Port days after the August 26, 2026, mudslide that destroyed the port in Gyirong County in western China’s Tibet region. [China News Service via AFP]
Women carry belongings from their damaged homes after a flash flood and mudslide in Galchhi, Nepal. [Francis Mascarenhas/Reuters]
A resident salvages belongings from damaged homes after flash floods along the banks of the Trishuli River in Nepal’s Dhading district. [Narendra Shrestha/EPA]
People rescued and airlifted from flood-affected areas arrive at Maithili Barrack, an army training centre in Trishuli serving as a primary base for receiving airlifted flood and mudslide survivors. [Navesh Chitrakar/Reuters]
A team from the Nepal police and the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Authority retrieves money and documents from a bank covered in sludge after flash floods in Trishuli. [Arun Sankar/AFP]
A woman cries as she waits for news of relatives missing after flash floods in Bidur in Nepal’s Nuwakot district. [Niranjan Shrestha/AP Photo]
Police carry the body of a child killed in flash floods and mudslides at Maithili Barrack. [Navesh Chitrakar/Reuters]
A boy looks at devastation caused by flash floods along the Trishuli River in Nepal’s Nuwakot district. [Niranjan Shrestha/AP Photo]
Houses lie in ruins after flash floods in Bidur. [EPA]
Rescue personnel try to reach workers trapped in a flooded tunnel at the Trishuli 3A Hydropower Project in Nepal’s Rasuwa district. [Handout/Nepal Prime Minister's Office via Reuters]
Police carry a body to a burial pit at the Devghat mass burial site for victims of deadly flash floods and mudslides in Nepal’s Chitwan district. [Navesh Chitrakar/Reuters]
Mud covers the floor of a classroom damaged by recent flash floods at Shree Bagheswori Madhyamik School in Galchhi in Nepal’s Dhading district. [Niranjan Shrestha/AP Photo]
A family photograph lies on a mud-covered mattress outside a house after flash floods in Devighat in Nepal’s Nuwakot district. [Maanan Vatsyayana/AFP]
Damaged houses sit along the banks of the Trishuli River in Nepal’s Dhading district. [Narendra Shrestha/EPA]
A woman helps a boy put up a photograph of her missing relative on a wall lined with images of missing and deceased people outside a government hospital in Kathmandu. [Dar Yasin/AP Photo]
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Residents salvage belongings from their destroyed homes in Devighat, Nepal. [Ezra Acayan/Getty Images]
Residents survey the damage following a flash flood in Trishuli, Nepal. [Ezra Acayan/Getty Images]
Residents carry their belongings salvaged from their damaged homes in Devighat, in Nepal's Nuwakot district. [Rajesh Kumar Singh/AP Photo]
As many as 93,000 people in Nepal have been affected by the disaster, according to the Red Cross. [Rajesh Kumar Singh/AP Photo]
A couple salvages belongings from their damaged home in Devighat. [Rajesh Kumar Singh/AP Photo]
A rescuer assists a resident through heavy mud in Trishuli. [Ezra Acayan/Getty Images]
Houses destroyed by floods in Bidur, Nepal. [Yonhap/EPA]
A bridge damaged by flash flooding along the Tadi River in the Devighat area of Nuwakot, Nepal. [Rajesh Kumar Singh/AP Photo]
Brothers of Sunda Damail, who went missing during the flash flood, pose with his photograph outside the morgue at the Tribhuvan University Teaching Hospital (TUTH), in Kathmandu, Nepal. [Narendra Shrestha/EPA]
A man places photographs of his missing loved ones on a gate at the Tribhuvan University Teaching Hospital (TUTH), in Kathmandu. [Narendra Shrestha/EPA]
Relatives of victims and missing people react outside the TUTH morgue. [Narendra Shrestha/EPA]
Family members pay their last respects to Rohan Shrestha, one of the flash flood victims from Rasuwa, at the Pashupati cremation centre in Kathmandu. [Handout/Nepal Army via EPA]
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Demonstrators gather near the Lincoln Memorial before the March on Washington on August 28 [Julia Demaree Nikhinson/AP Photo]
Members of the National Guard walk past the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool before Friday's March on Washington. [Julia Demaree Nikhinson/AP Photo]
The rally culminated at the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, a symbolic site for the US civil rights movement. [AP Photo]
The theme of Friday's march was 'Defend the Vote', with attendees wearing clothing and carrying signs to echo that message. [Julia Demaree Nikhinson/AP Photo]
Reverend Al Sharpton and film director Spike Lee join the descendants of Martin Luther King Jr — including his granddaughter Yolanda Renee King and daughter Arndrea Waters King — at the march. [Julia Demaree Nikhinson/AP Photo]
At the march, a cardboard cut-out of President Donald Trump held a placard that read, 'I'm stealing from YOU.' [Julia Demaree Nikhinson/AP Photo]
Demonstrators during the march chanted against racial gerrymandering, the practice of reshaping districts to weaken the power of non-white voters. [Mariam Zuhaib/AP Photo]
Demonstrators at the march encouraged the US public to take action to protect the country's democracy. [Julia Demaree Nikhinson/AP Photo]
A group of protesters hold a sign addressed to the government, with the message, 'Hands off our vote.' [Julia Demaree Nikhinson/AP Photo]
Friday's March on Washington revisited the Lincoln Memorial, where the slain civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr delivered his iconic 'I have a dream' speech. [Julia Demaree Nikhinson/AP Photo]
Horse-mounted officers from the US Park Police patrol near the Lincoln Memorial during the march. [Julia Demaree Nikhinson/AP Photo]
Civil Rights attorney Benjamin Crump speaks during the March on Washington rally at the Lincoln Memorial on Friday. [Manuel Balce Ceneta/AP Photo]
Activists brought handmade signs and musical instruments to the march to show their support. [Manuel Balce Ceneta/AP Photo]
Senator Bernie Sanders was among the politicians who delivered remarks at Friday's march. [Manuel Balce Ceneta/AP Photo]
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Mud and flash floods engulfed homes at Trishuli in Nepal. [Navesh Chitrakar/Reuters]
Nepali homes covered by mud following flash floods at Devighat, Bidur Municipality in Nuwakot district. [Prabin Ranabhat/AFP]
Damaged houses after flash floods near Devighat in Nuwakot district. [AFP]
Survivors wait for roads to clear in Trishuli in Nepal's Nuwakot district.[Navesh Chitrakar/Reuters]
Rescuers ride in an excavator in Devighat village. [Narendra Shrestha/EPA]
Rescue teams carry the body of a victim in Bidur Municipality in Nepal's Nuwakot district. [AFP]
Rescuers carry a survivor following the flash flood in Trishuli. [Navesh Chitrakar/Reuters]
Army officers on a helicopter rescue mission for flash flood survivors in Trishuli. [Handout/Nepal Army via EPA]
Workers clear debris in the aftermath of the flash floods in Devighat. [Niranjan Shrestha/AP Photo]
Earthmovers clear mud and debris in Nepal's Nuwakot district. [Niranjan Shrestha/AP Photo]
The Nepal Red Cross Society said about 1,200 people were displaced from at least three villages. [Niranjan Shrestha/AP Photo]
Mud-covered buildings in Trishuli. [Navesh Chitrakar/Reuters]
Dozens of bridges have been destroyed and nearly 40 kilometres (25 miles) of roads damaged, complicating search efforts, say Nepali officials. [Navesh Chitrakar/Reuters]
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