TOPSHOT - -- AFP PICTURES OF THE YEAR 2024 --
Mourners watch as medical personnel prepare the bodies of 47 Palestinians that were taken and later released by Israel during a mass funeral in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, on March 7, 2024, amid ongoing battles between Israel and the Palestinian militant group Hamas.. Gaza's Hamas-run government media office said that Israel had returned dozens of bodies that had been exhumed from graves in the besieged territory in recent weeks. "The bodies arrived through the Kerem Shalom crossing and were received by the ministry of health," Ihsan Al-Natour from the Hamas-run ministry of endowments told AFP at the funeral. (Photo by SAID KHATIB / AFP) / AFP PICTURES OF THE YEAR 2024