Khan Younis, Gaza
An Israeli strike explodes at a tent camp sheltering displaced people in Khan Younis. Benjamin Netanyahu said again this week that Israel had ‘no choice’ but to continue fighting in Gaza and would not end the war before destroying Hamas and freeing the hostages. He is under growing pressure at home, not only from families of hostages and their supporters but also from reservist and retired Israeli soldiers who question the continuation of the war
Photograph: Hatem Khaled/Reuters
Gaza
Displaced Palestinians inspect the damage to Yaffa school after an Israeli airstrike. Intense bombings hit several areas of Gaza on Wednesday, killing 11 in a school sheltering displaced people in al-Tuffah, a neighbourhood of Gaza City. The strike ignited a huge fire that claimed most of the casualties, said a civil defence spokesperson, Mahmoud Bassal
Photograph: Haitham Imad/EPA
Vatican City
Nuns look at the dome of St Peter’s Basilica after the death of Pope Francis. The pope was a vocal advocate for an end to the war in Gaza, using his last public address, from the balcony of St Peter’s on Easter Sunday, to condemn the ‘deplorable humanitarian situation’ there and to implore Israel and Hamas to ‘call for a ceasefire, release the hostages and come to the aid of a starving people that aspire to a future of peace’
Photograph: Guglielmo Mangiapane/Reuters
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Men gather at Hogares de Cristo community centre, part of a network for drug addicts originally supported by the then-Archbishop Jorge Bergoglio, the late Pope Francis, who for decades was dedicated to working in the capital’s poorest neighbourhoods, earning him the nickname the ‘priest of the slums’
Photograph: Rodrigo Abd/AP
Khan Younis, Gaza
Women mourn near the bodies of Palestinians killed in Israeli strikes at Nasser hospital in Khan Younis. Israel has vowed to intensify attacks across Gaza and occupy indefinitely large ‘security zones’ inside the small coastal strip of more than 2 million people
Photograph: Hatem Khaled/Reuters
Dardghaya, Lebanon
Worshippers gather for Easter mass inside the ruins of St George Melkite Catholic church, damaged by Israeli airstrikes, in Dardghaya
Photograph: Hassan Ammar/AP
Vatican City
The faithful attend the rosary for Pope Francis in St Peter’s Square at the Vatican. More than 150,000 people from all over the world have viewed the pope’s body this week as the Vatican made the final preparations for his funeral, which will be attended by 50 heads of state and 10 monarchs
Photograph: Claudia Greco/Reuters
Kharkiv, Ukraine
A woman lights a candle during the celebration of Orthodox Easter at St John Theologian church in Kharkiv
Photograph: George Ivanchenko/AP
Kyiv, Ukraine
A girl walks in front of her damaged home after a Russian missile attack in Kyiv. Donald Trump issued a rare rebuke to Moscow for an air attack that killed 12 people, telling the Russian president in a social media post: ‘Vladimir, STOP!’
Photograph: Tetiana Dzhafarova/AFP/Getty
Balashikha, Russia
Security personnel work at the scene where Lt Gen Yaroslav Moskalik, the deputy head of the main operations directorate of the general staff of the Russian armed forces, was killed by an explosive device placed in his car just outside Moscow. The attack happened as Vladimir Putin began his high-stakes meeting in the Kremlin with Donald Trump’s special envoy, Steve Witkoff
Photograph: AP
Kyiv, Ukraine
Rescuers and civilians work to pull victims from the rubble of a missile strike on a residential building in Kyiv. The attack was the biggest and most deadly this year. Two children were among the dead and at least 90 people were injured. Russia also carried out strikes against Kharkiv and other cities
Photograph: Kostiantyn Liberov/Libkos/Getty
Jabalia, Gaza
Internally displaced Palestinians jostle for food from a charity kitchen in Jabalia. Israel has quietly stopped designating areas of Gaza as humanitarian zones since it resumed strikes on the Palestinian territory last month, heightening fears among aid workers for the safety of civilians sheltering in places previously deemed protected
Photograph: Haitham Imad/EPA
Srinagar, Kashmir
Lightning flashes over the Zabarwan hills at Srinagar in Indian-controlled Kashmir
Photograph: Mukhtar Khan/AP
Monghama, Kashmir
Women inspect the destroyed family home of Asif Sheikh, who officials say was involved in the deadly attack on tourists in Pahalgam, in the village of Monghama in Indian-controlled Kashmir. Troops from Pakistan and India exchanged fire across the line of control in disputed Kashmir, officials said, after the UN urged the nuclear-armed rivals to show ‘maximum restraint’
Photograph: Dar Yasin/AP
Vatican City
People line up as they enter St Peter’s Basilica to pay their respects to Pope Francis lying in state
Photograph: Emilio Morenatti/AP
Buenos Aires, Argentina
A mural depicts the late Pope Francis alongside the footballer Lionel Messi in the neighbourhood of Carlos Mugica in Buenos Aires
Photograph: Rodrigo Abd/AP
Anson, Texas, US
Diover José Millán León of Venezuela, top left, and other detainees are seen at the Bluebonnet detention facility, where Venezuelans at the centre of a supreme court ruling are held. The US supreme court ordered the Trump administration to temporarily halt the deportation of Venezuelan men in immigration custody, after their lawyers said they were at imminent risk of removal without the judicial review previously mandated by the justices
Photograph: Daniel Cole/Reuters
West Coast, South Africa
A student moves around a taxidermised giraffe at a crime scene set up in the warehouse of the Wildlife Forensic Academy in the Buffelsfontein game and nature reserve near Cape Town. The academy aims to fight poaching by teaching investigation skills to rangers, conservation officers, law enforcement and students
Photograph: Marco Longari/AFP/Getty
Ekström ice shelf, Antarctica
An emperor penguin chick looks to be fed by its parent during a blizzard on the Ekström ice shelf in this photograph taken by the National Geographic explorer Bertie Gregory for the documentary Secrets of the Penguins
Photograph: National Geographic/Bertie Gregory/Reuters
Nebraska, US
The Plum Creek fire burns in north-central Nebraska
Photograph: Jessica Pozehl/Brown/Rock County emergency management/AP
