A passenger jeepney commutes through a flooded street in Manila on September 5, 2024, caused by heavy rains due to the southwest monsoon influenced by Tropical Storm Yagi which hit the main island of Luzon on September 2. (Photo by Ted Aljibe/AFP Photo)

Palestinian refugees walk home in Gaza City on January 19, 2025, making a V sign with their fingers toward the camera, just before the ceasefire took effect. (Photo by Reuters/Yonhap News)

A diver dressed as “Mermaid of the Serpent Depths” performs in front of a sign marking the Lunar New Year of the Snake inside an aquarium at Manila Ocean Park on January 28, 2025. (Photo by Jam Sta Rosa/AFP Photo)

A Palestinian sits among the rubble of buildings destroyed during the Israeli offensive, amid a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip on February 4, 2025. (Photo by Hatem Khaled/Reuters)

Palestinians living in the rubble of destroyed houses or in makeshift tents in the city of Khan Yunis, which suffered great destruction during the 15-month-long attacks of the Israeli army, continue their daily life despite all the negativities on February 16, 2025 in Khan Yunis, Gaza. (Photo by Abed Rahim Khatib/Anadolu via Getty Images)

A Palestinian girl cries as she stands above debris near a house that was hit during Israeli strikes in Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip, on April 2, 2025. Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz announced on April 2, a major expansion of military operations in Hamas-run Gaza, saying the army would seize “large areas” of the Palestinian territory. (Photo by Eyad Baba/AFP Photo)

Relatives mourn over the shrouded body of Mohammad Abed, who is killed in an Israeli airstrike on a shelter in Gaza City, during his funeral in Gaza City, on April 19, 2025. (Photo by Majdi Fathi/NurPhoto/Rex Features/Shutterstock)

Devotees of the small farming village of Bibiclat celebrate the Feast of Saint John the Baptist while covered in banana leaves and mud on June 24, 2025 in Aliaga, Philippines. Known as the “Taong Putik” (mud people), the ritual happens yearly in this small farming village as their own version of expressing their faith and celebrating the feast of Saint John the Baptist whom the survivors of the Japanese occupation in 1944 in their area prayed to for rain to save their fellow villagers. (Photo by Ezra Acayan/Getty Images)