Twenty photographs of the week

The week around the world in 20 pictures

The Middle East crisis, wildfires in Portugal, floods in Poland and London fashion week: the last seven days as captured by the world’s leading photojournalists

Ribeira de Fráguas, Portugal

A villager watches a wildfire burning near her house at Ribeira de Fráguas. The Portuguese government declared a ‘state of calamity’ this week as dozens of wildfires burned across northern parts of the country.

Photograph: Patrícia de Melo Moreira/AFP/Getty Images

Kibbutz Mishmarot, Israel

Soldiers attend the funeral of IDF paramedic Sgt Agam Naim, the first female soldier killed in the Gaza Strip, in Kibbutz Mishmarot.

Photograph: Maya Alleruzzo/AP

Gaza

A Palestinian woman carrying her child cries in front of a collapsed building as the bodies of Palestinians who died in Israel’s attack on the Bureij refugee camp are brought to the al-Awda hospital for burial.

Photograph: Ashraf Amra/Anadolu/Getty Images

Beirut, Lebanon

Ambulances arrive at the American University of Beirut Medical Center as more than 1,000 people, including Hezbollah fighters and medics, were wounded when the pagers they use to communicate exploded across Lebanon. Hezbollah vowed revenge for the unprecedented attack, which Israel has been accused of carrying out by planting explosives inside thousands of pagers imported by the group months earlier.

Photograph: Mohamed Azakir/Reuters

Israel

Israeli soldiers evacuate injured people by helicopter after an anti-tank missile was fired into northern Israel from Lebanon. Israel will expand its war goals to include the return home of northern residents who were evacuated because of attacks by Iran-backed Hezbollah launched from Lebanon, according to the prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu.

Photograph: Ayal Margolin/Reuters

Traversara, Italy

People are evacuated by Italian air force helicopters during floods in the small village of Traversara. Two people are missing and about 1,000 have been evacuated from their homes after devastating floods and landslides hit the northern Italian region of Emilia-Romagna, prompting accusations that Giorgia Meloni’s far-right government lacks the will to confront the climate crisis.

Photograph: Federico Scoppa/AFP/Getty Images

Stronie Śląskie, Poland

A woman stands at the entrance to a building destroyed by the heavy floods in Stronie Śląskie. More than five times the average rainfall for the whole of September fell in five days on swathes of Austria, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Romania and Slovakia, triggering devastating flooding that has killed 23 people in four countries.

Photograph: Wojtek Radwański/AFP/Getty Images

Khan Younis, Gaza

A vehicle moves through the rubble of collapsed buildings in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip.

Photograph: Bashar Taleb/AFP/Getty Images

Khan Younis, Gaza

Palestinians build barriers of sand in front of their tents, which have been flooded by seawater due to tidal waves and rough weather, at the beach in Khan Younis.

Photograph: Haitham Imad/EPA

Gaza

An armoured vehicle drives past damaged buildings during the Israeli army’s ground operation in the Gaza Strip.

Photograph: Léo Corrêa/AP

Verfeil, France

Opponents of the A69 motorway occupy a house in a ZAD (Zone to Defend) in Verfeil. Employees of the A69 concession holder and police officers this week entered a property near Toulouse that had become the last bastion of opponents of this controversial motorway, where trees had been cut down before it was scheduled to be evacuated.

Photograph: Lionel Bonaventure/AFP/Getty Images

Głuchołazy, Poland

A street is flooded in Głuchołazy. Storm Boris has dumped up to five times the average September rainfall on parts of Austria, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Romania and Slovakia in four days, submerging entire neighbourhoods and forcing hundreds of thousands of people to evacuate.

Photograph: Sergei Gapon/AFP/Getty Images

Shan, Myanmar

A man dries items in a flooded area of Inle Lake in Myanmar’s southern Shan state. The country’s death toll from floods rose to at least 113, its military government said, following heavy rains brought on by Typhoon Yagi that has caused havoc across parts of south-east Asia.

Photograph: AFP/Getty Images

Pokrovsk, Ukraine

A Ukrainian serviceman runs to help farmers extinguish a burning field near Pokrovsk.

Photograph: Oleksii Filippov/AFP/Getty Images

Novoekonomichne, Ukraine

Ukrainian serviceman Gennadiy Yudin stands inside a church heavily damaged by Russian bombing in Novoekonomichne.

Photograph: Evgeniy Maloletka/AP

Talhadas, Portugal

Trees burn in Talhadas during wildfires that have been raging all week in the northern and central regions of the country, destroying dozens of houses and forcing roads and motorways to be closed.

Photograph: Estela Silva/EPA

Vila Vila, Bolivia

A supporter of former Bolivian president Evo Morales clashes with supporters of the current president, Luis Arce, at the road between Oruro and La Paz. Morales began a march to demand respect for his candidacy for the 2025 presidential elections and against the economic crisis.

Photograph: Luis Gandarillas/EPA

Concepcion, Bolivia

Parrots fly through smoke caused by forest fires in the community of Palestina in Concepcion.

Photograph: Ipa Ibanez/Reuters

Mexico City

A soldier with an eagle prepares to participate in a military parade for the 214th anniversary of Independence Day at the Zocalo Square in Mexico City.

Photograph: Rodrigo Oropeza/AFP/Getty Images

London, England

A model presents a creation during the Patrick McDowell spring/summer 2025 show at London fashion week.

Photograph: Benjamin Cremel/AFP/Getty Images