A Palestinian woman holds stones, ready to use as a rudimentary weapon, in Ramallah in the Palestinian territories on Oct. 20. Photo: IC Photo

A Ukrainian soldier from the 53rd Brigade fires RPG-9 rockets at Russian positions on the front line near Ukraine’s Donetsk region on Aug. 19. Photo: VCG

Riot police shield themselves from stone projectiles and a protestor swinging a makeshift weapon in Liberation Square in Baghdad, Iraq, on Oct. 1. The violence marked the fourth anniversary of Iraq’s Tishreen protests in 2019. Photo: VCG

A protester holds an umbrella to protect himself against police tear gas on the eighth day of strikes and protests in Nantes, France, on March 15. On Jan. 10, the French government announced details of a pension reform that intends to raise the retirement age from 62 to 64 by 2030. The change has been strongly opposed by labor unions. Photo: VCG

Members of the press mourn two Palestinian journalists, Sari Mansour and Hasona Saliem, in Gaza on Nov. 19. Mansour and Saliem died covering the Israel-Hamas war. Photo: VCG

A car transports hostage Tal Almog-Goldstein, who was released by Hamas, to a military base in southern Israel on Nov. 26. Photo: VCG

The mother of Reuters visuals journalist Issam Abdallah, who was killed while filming Israeli missile attacks at the Israeli-Lebanon border, embraces his coffin at his funeral on Oct. 14 in Khiam, Lebanon. Photo: IC Photo

People flee in terror after a refugee camp is hit by an air raid in Gaza on Nov. 6. Photo: VCG

The son of Hezbollah member Mounir Youssef Achour lies on his father’s coffin during his funeral on Oct. 30 in Lebanon. Photo: IC Photo

An Israeli protester sits on a chair in front of a fire under an overpass in Tel Aviv on July 20, while other protesters wave the Israeli national flag in the distance. They were protesting the government’s plan to reform the judicial system. Photo: VCG

Riot police covered in snow stand guard in San Carlos de Bariloche in Argentina on Aug. 23. The police were called in to guard businesses against a spate of robberies, which the government lambasted as sowing chaos in the lead-up to the presidential election in October. Photo: VCG

Riot police are seen on guard through a broken window amid protests launched in support of former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro in Brasilia on Jan. 8. Photo: VCG

The commander of a Ukrainian brigade is reflected in a piece of glass in the Donetsk region on Nov. 6. Before the Russia-Ukraine war, he was the CEO of a trading company that dealt in auto parts. Photo: IC Photo

A resident plants sunflowers in his garden amid the wreckage of a Russian tank in Kyiv, Ukraine, on May 17. Photo: VCG