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Topshots of the Week (5 October - 11 October, 2024)

 

A selection of some of the most striking photographs taken by AFP photojournalists from October 5th to October 11th, 2024.

 

An Israeli soldier visits an installation honouring those who were killed and kidnapped in the Supernova music festival during the October 7 attacks by Palestinian militants, at the site of the festival near Kibbutz Reim in southern Israel on October 6, 2024.

An Israeli soldier visits an installation honouring those who were killed and kidnapped in the Supernova music festival during the October 7 attacks by Palestinian militants, at the site of the festival near Kibbutz Reim on October 6, 2024. © Menahem KAHANA / AFP

 

An old American car drives past waves crashing against the Malecon promenade in Havana due to the passage of Hurricane Milton on October 9, 2024.

An old American car drives past waves crashing against the Malecon promenade in Havana due to the passage of Hurricane Milton on October 9, 2024. © Yamil LAGE / AFP

 

A woman walks past a crater where a collapsed building stood following an overnight Israeli air strike on the neighbourhood of Kafaat in Beirut's southern suburbs, on October 7, 2024

A woman walks past a crater where a collapsed building stood following an overnight Israeli air strike on the neighbourhood of Kafaat in Beirut's southern suburbs, on October 7, 2024. © AFP

 

Mexican army soldiers perform a representation of the beginning of the Republic with the appointment of the first President, Guadalupe Victoria, and different passages from the history of Mexico during the Bicentennial of the Republic ceremony at the Zocalo Square in Mexico City on October 10, 2024. © Alfredo ESTRELLA / AFP

 

Voters gather in the courtyard of a polling station in the Escola Primaria Compleda Unidade 25 in the Polana Caniso district of Maputo on October 9, 2024 during Mozambique's national election.

Voters gather in the courtyard of a polling station in the Escola Primaria Compleda Unidade 25 in the Polana Caniso district of Maputo on October 9, 2024 during Mozambique's national election. © Marco LONGARI / AFP

 

Paramedics of the volunteer medical battalion Hospitallers treat Ukrainian servicemen wounded in fighting in the Donetsk region on a medical evacuation bus driving to a hospital, on October 6, 2024, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

Paramedics of the volunteer medical battalion Hospitallers treat Ukrainian servicemen wounded in fighting in the Donetsk region on a medical evacuation bus driving to a hospital, on October 6, 2024, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine. © Roman PILIPEY / AFP

 

Tesla CEO Elon Musk (R) jumps on stage as he joins former US President and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump during a campaign rally at site of his first assassination attempt in Butler, Pennsylvania on October 5, 2024.

Tesla CEO Elon Musk (R) jumps on stage as he joins former US President and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump during a campaign rally at the site of his first assassination attempt in Butler, Pennsylvania on October 5, 2024. © Jim WATSON / AFP

 

Palestinians walk beneath the tilted minaret of a destroyed mosque in the Shujaiya neighbourhood of Gaza City on October 7, 2024, on the first anniversary of the ongoing war in the Gaza Strip between Israel and the Palestinian Hamas group.

Palestinians walk beneath the tilted minaret of a destroyed mosque in the Shujaiya neighbourhood of Gaza City on October 7, 2024, on the first anniversary of the ongoing war in the Gaza Strip between Israel and the Palestinian Hamas group. © Omar AL-QATTAA / AFP