Photos this week: April 17-24, 2025
An explosion is seen during an Israeli strike on a tent camp sheltering displaced people in Khan Younis, Gaza, on Saturday, April 19. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has vowed to continue the war in Gaza in the face of growing opposition to Israel's ongoing military campaign. Hatem Khaled/Reuters
Oleksandr, a former Ukrainian prisoner of war, embraces his mother, Olha, after a prisoner swap with Russia on Saturday, April 19. The war is now in its fourth year. Alina Smutko/Reuters
A meteor streaks through the sky over the Dimitrios shipwreck near Gythio, Greece, on Saturday, April 19. The shipwreck, on Valtaki beach, has been there since 1981. Alkis Konstantinidis/Reuters
NASA astronaut Don Pettit is carried to a medical tent shortly after he and two Russian cosmonauts landed near the town of Zhezkazgan, Kazakhstan, on Sunday, April 20. They were returning after a seven-month stay aboard the International Space Station. It was Pettit's fourth time in space. See some of Pettit's best photos. Bill Ingalls/NASA
Sherlyn, 4, hugs her mother, Maria Pomaquiza, at a naturalization ceremony in Lexington, Massachusetts, on Tuesday, April 22. Pomaquiza, who is originally from Ecuador, was sworn in as a US citizen. Brian Snyder/Reuters
Wild bluebells, which bloom around mid-April, surround trees in Halle, Belgium, on Tuesday, April 22. Yves Herman/Reuters
Police officers in Kyiv, Ukraine, help an injured woman leave her house, which was damaged by a Russian airstrike on Thursday, April 24. Moscow sent 70 missiles and 145 drones toward Ukraine, mainly targeting Kyiv. At least 12 people died in the strikes, according to Ukraine's emergency services, and more people may be trapped under rubble. Evgeniy Maloletka/AP
In this long-exposure photo, people walk with candles around a church during an Orthodox Easter service in St. Petersburg, Russia, on Sunday, April 20. Dmitri Lovetsky/AP
A team member of the 'Unbreakable' football club kicks a ball during a training session in Kharkiv, Ukraine, on Monday, April 21. The club was founded a month ago by Ukrainian veterans and civilians with amputated limbs. Ivan Samoilov/AFP/Getty Images
US Sen. Chris Van Hollen, right, meets with Kilmar Abrego Garcia at a hotel restaurant in San Salvador, El Salvador, on Thursday, April 17. Garcia, a Maryland man who was wrongly deported to El Salvador, is still being held in a maximum-security mega-prison in the Central American nation. US officials have alleged that Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran national, is a member of the MS-13 gang, which the Trump administration has designated as a foreign terrorist organization. His attorneys, however, dispute the claim and a federal judge has voiced skepticism toward it. Press Office Senator Van Hollen/AP
Arafat al-Qafarna, a Palestinian displaced by Israeli attacks in Gaza, plays with a pigeon at the large conference hall of the Islamic University, which has been turned into a temporary shelter in Gaza City, on Sunday, April 20. See last week in 30 photos. Mahmoud Abu Hamda/Anadolu/Getty Images
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Gaza Humanitarian Foundation says Hamas attack has killed multiple aid workers
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Trump administration hit with second lawsuit over restrictions on asylum access
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