A woman throws olives into a freshly-harvested pile beneath a tree, during the harvest season in Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip on October 5, 2023. (Photo by Said Khatib/AFP Photo)

A Gnawa traditional group performs in the city of Essaouira on December 14, 2019, to celebrate the decision of adding the Gnawa culture to UNESCO's list of Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity. Gnawa culture, a centuries-old Moroccan practice rooted in music, African rituals and Sufi traditions, was added to UNESCO's list of Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity earlier in the week. Gnawa refers to a “set of musical productions, fraternal practices and therapeutic rituals where the secular mixes with the sacred”, according to the nomination submitted by Morocco. Often dressed in colourful outfits, Gnawa musicians play the guenbri, a type of lute with three strings, accompanied by steel castanets called krakebs. (Photo by Fadel Senna/AFP Photo)

Mother Nesrin Mehre, mourns near the body of Muhammad Mehre was killed in an Israeli attack on al-Nasr neighborhood in northwestern Gaza, on September 23, 2025. His body was taken from al-Shifa Hospital for burial. (Photo by Khames Alrefi/Anadolu via Getty Images)

Alaa Shabat lives with her six children in a tent erected inside the Austrian cemetery in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, on November 13, 2025, after her husband became ill and unable to work. (Photo by Tariq Mohammad/APAImages/Rex Features/Shutterstock)

Models clad in costumes of video game charactors pose at a game booth during the Tokyo Game Show 2016 in Chiba, suburb of Tokyo, on September 15, 2016. Sony took centre stage at the annual four-day event, with its virtual reality headset ready to hit store shelves for the Christmas shopping season. (Photo by Toru Yamanaka/AFP Photo)

The daughter of Zakaria Abu Maamar, a member of Hamas' political office, is comforted as she cries during her father's funeral, after he was killed in an air strike, in Khan Younis, in southern Gaza Strip on October 10, 2023. (Photo by Ibraheem Abu Mustafa/Reuters)

A Palestinian child receives food cooked by a charity kitchen amid shortages of food supplies in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip on February 20, 2024. (Photo by Mohammed Salem/Reuters)

Canada's Melissa Humana-Paredes (L) and Brandie Wilkerson celebrate after defeating Argentina in the women's teams semifinals match 1 beach volleyball event during the Pan American Games Santiago 2023 at the Beach Volleyball Centre in Santiago on October 26, 2023. (Photo by Raul Arboleda/AFP Photo)