Palestinian children peek out of holes in their tent at a makeshift displacement camp set up amid building rubble in Gaza City on May 12, 2025. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on May 12 that the release of a US-Israeli hostage announced by Hamas would not lead to a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip or the release of Palestinian detainees. (Photo by OMar Al-Qattaa/AFP Photo)





Injured Palestinian children sit on a chair at Nasser Hospital, following an Israeli strike, in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, on May 19, 2025. (Photo by Hatem Khaled/Reuters)





Sophie Hawkshaw, 9, dressed as a Headless Horseman, participates in a lead rein fancy dress competition for riders under 10 years old at an agricultural show, in Athenry, Ireland on May 25, 2025. (Photo by Clodagh Kilcoyne/Reuters)





Children pose for a group photo backdropped by cherry blossom trees in the Friendship Garden of St. Petersburg, on a snowy April 26, 2025. (Photo by Dmitri Lovetsky/AP Photo)





Raghad and her younger sister Mira hold on to their cooking pots as they wait to fill them with food, in Muwasi, on the outskirts of Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip, April 24, 2025. (Photo by Abdel Kareem Hana/AP Photo)





Buddhist monks pray during the Buddha Jayanti, or Buddha Purnima, also known as Vesak Day, celebrations organized by the Maha Bodhi Society in Bangalore, India, 12 May 2025. Buddhists celebrate Vesak Day to mark the date of birth, enlightenment and passing of Gautama Buddha (Gautama Siddhartha). (Photo by Jagadeesh N.V./EPA/EFE)





Palestinians struggle to get donated food at a community kitchen in Khan Younis, Gaza Strip, Friday, May 16, 2025. (Photo by Abdel Kareem Hana/AP Photo)





Injured Palestinian child, Yousef Al-Bayouk, weeps over his brothers, Moath and Moataz, who were killed in Israeli strikes, as mourners attend their funeral, at Nasser hospital in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, on May 15, 2025. (Photo by Hatem Khaled/Reuters)





Palestinians, struggling with hunger due to Israeli embargo, wait in line to receive hot meals distributed by the charity organizations as Israeli attacks continue, in Jabalia Refugee Camp in Gaza City, Gaza on May 26, 2025. (Photo by Mahmoud Issa/Anadolu via Getty Images)





Young women in indigenous 'Panchitas' attire accompanying a procession during the 43rd Cultural Festival of Palms and Flowers held in the colonial city of Panchimalco, in San Salvador, El Salvador on May 11, 2025. It is a cultural and religious tradition where people carry coconut palms decorated with all kinds of flowers that coincides with the beginning of the rainy season in El Salvador. (Photo by Alex Pena/Anadolu via Getty Images)





Mourners react as they attend the funeral of Palestinians killed in Israeli strikes, at Nasser hospital, in Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip, on May 23, 2025. (Photo by Hatem Khaled/Reuters)





Yemeni children chant slogans during a rally in solidarity with Palestinians and the Gaza Strip and in condemnation of Israel and the US, in the Huthi-run capital Sanaa on May 23, 2025. (Photo by Mohammed Huwais/AFP Photo)





A boy performs a lion dance at the Piu Sik Parade during celebrations of the Bun Festival at Cheung Chau island in Hong Kong, China, 05 May 2025. The Cheung Chau Bun Festival, recognised as part of China's national list of intangible cultural heritage, is an annual festival that celebrates the end of a plague that struck the island of Cheung Chau during the Qing dynasty, with bun-scrambling competition and Piu Sik Parade as the most significant activities in the festival. (Photo by Bertha Wang/EPA/EFE)





A Kashmiri girl waits for transportation as she, along with her family, leaves for a safer place following overnight shelling, in Uri, India-administered Kashmir, 09 May 2025. According to the Indian Ministry of Defense, on the night of 07 and 08 May 2025, Pakistan attempted to engage a number of military targets in northern and western India using drones and missiles, and in response, Indian armed forces targeted air defence radars and systems at a number of locations in Pakistan. (Photo by Farooq Khan/EPA/EFE)





Students take part in an emergency simulation drill as part of the nationwide civil defence mock drill at a school in Kolkata on May 7, 2025, as border tensions surge. India and Pakistan exchanged heavy artillery along their contested frontier on Wednesday, after New Delhi launched deadly missile strikes on its arch-rival in the worst violence between the nuclear-armed neighbours in two decades. India conducted several civil defence drills on May 7, while schools in Pakistan's Punjab and Kashmir were closed, local government officials said. (Photo by Dibyangshu Sarkar/AFP Photo)





A young protester takes part in the National March For Palestine, marking the 77th anniversary of Nakba Day on May 17, 2025 in London, England. (Photo by Alishia Abodunde/Getty Images)





A boy plays in water from a broken fire hydrant in Rosemead, California on Saturday, May 10, 2025, seeking relief as spring heat breaks temperature records across the Southland. (Photo by Ringo Chiu/ZUMA Press Wire/Rex Features/Shutterstock)





Five-year-old Preston Prescher gives his mother, Holly Prescher (not pictured), a hand with storm damage cleanup at their home along North Main Street, south of County DF in Juneau on May 16, 2025. Several tornadoes reportedly touched down in western and central Wisconsin bringing damage to the Dodge County area. (Photo by Mike De Sisti/Milwaukee Journa)





Children play in the waves on the Yemeni island of Socotra on September 22, 2024. (Photo by Annika Hammerschlag/AP Photo)





A villager of Qaldoun al-Marah harvests Damascene roses, for which the region is famous, in Al-Nabk, countryside of Damascus, Syria, 21 May 2025. The practices and craftmanship associated with the Damascene rose was registered as a UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage Site in 2019. The rose is a source of an essence from which oil is extracted and sold to Europe, especially France, to manufacture the finest perfumes, as well as rose water and cosmetics. (Photo by Hasan Belal/EPA)