Julia WeeksJuly 24, 2017Comment

Pictures of the week

Julia WeeksJuly 24, 2017Comment

Highlights from the weekly AP photo report, a gallery featuring a mix of front-page photography, the odd image you might have missed and lasting moments our editors think you should see.

This week’s gallery features images of Palestinian protesters in Gaza; people at a refugee camp in Syria; and children playing aboard a fishing boat in Lagos, Nigeria.

Palestinian protesters stand atop a sandy hill during clashes with Israeli soldiers on the Israeli border with Gaza, Friday, July 21, 2017. (AP Photo/ Khalil Hamra)

Trainee David Kullualik, of Iqaluit, Nunavut, Canada, looks through binoculars from the bridge of the Finnish icebreaker MSV Nordica as it sails through ice floating on the Chukchi Sea off the coast of Alaska while traversing the Arctic's Northwest Passage, Sunday, July 16, 2017. (AP Photo/David Goldman)

A girl who fled with her family from the battle between U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces and the Islamic State militants from Raqqa city, stands outside her tent at a refugee camp, in Ain Issa town, northeast Syria, Wednesday, July 19, 2017. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

With a fashion advertisement billboard reflected in the windows, people spend time in a cafe at a shopping mall in Beijing, on Monday, July 17, 2017. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)

People who fled the battles between U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces and the Islamic State militants from Raqqa, walk in the dust at a refugee camp, in Ain Issa, northeast Syria on Wednesday, July 19, 2017. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

Palestinians run away from tear gas fired by Israeli forces in Jerusalem, on Friday, July 21, 2017. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean)

Children play aboard a fishing canoe on the waterfront of the Makoko neighborhood in Lagos, Nigeria, Thursday, July 20, 2017. (AP Photo/Sunday Alamba)

A lobsterman's boat leaves a gentle wake as he motors out of a harbor on a foggy morning, Friday, July 21, 2017, in Boothbay, Maine. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)

An air tanker drops fire retardant while battling a wildfire near Mariposa, Calif., Wednesday, July 19, 2017. (AP Photo/Noah Berger)

Children cool off in a fountain at Dilworth Park in Philadelphia, Friday, July 21, 2017. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

Rescue workers and volunteers try to free a trapped man in Karachi, Pakistan, Tuesday, July 18, 2017. (AP Photo/Shakil Adil)

Chile's President Michelle Bachelet, bottom, and others cast flowers into the Rio de la Plata during a visit to Memory Park which honors the victims of the country's dictatorship, in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on Thursday, July 20, 2017. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)