AP Top Photos of the Month September 2024

This monthly gallery features some of the top photojournalism made by Associated Press photographers in September 2024.

Boys row on the Sava river in Belgrade, Serbia, Sunday, Sept. 1, 2024. (AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic)

Mourners pray during a candlelight vigil for the slain students and teachers at Apalachee High School, Wednesday, Sept. 4, 2024, in Winder, Ga. (AP Photo/Mike Stewart)

Richard Gere, center, sits with the photographers upon arrival for the premiere of the film “Wolfs" during the 81st edition of the Venice Film Festival in Venice, Italy, on Sunday, Sept. 1, 2024. (Photo by Joel C Ryan/Invision/AP)

Hezbollah supporters carry a flag depicting Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah as they ride a scooter following the funeral procession of Hezbollah commanders Ibrahim Kobeisi and Hussein Ezzedine in Beirut's southern suburb, Wednesday, Sept. 25, 2024. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

A woman shouts slogans as she joins a rally to protest against the rape and murder of a resident doctor at a government hospital in August, in Kolkata, India, Sunday, Sept. 1, 2024. (AP Photo/Bikas Das)

Birds fly near a church in Wehrheim near Frankfurt, Germany, on a foggy Tuesday, Sept. 3, 2024. (AP Photo/Michael Probst)

Palestinians look at the destruction after an Israeli airstrike on a crowded tent camp housing Palestinians displaced by the war in Muwasi, Gaza Strip, Tuesday, Sept. 10, 2024. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

Annika and Moritz embrace as people walk by in Vienna, Austria, Thursday, Sept. 26, 2024. (AP Photo/Andreea Alexandru)

The twin daughters of Muthuthewarkittan Manohari, a tea plantation worker, stand in the foreground as their grandmother Lakshmi, center, drinks a cup of tea in their home in Spring Valley Estate in Badulla, Sri Lanka, Tuesday, Sept. 10, 2024. (AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena)

A resident carries a dog amid smoke from fires in a forested area in the Guapulo neighborhood of Quito, Ecuador, Tuesday, Sept. 24, 2024. (AP Photo/Carlos Noriega)

An American flag sits in floodwaters in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene in the Shore Acres neighborhood Friday, Sept. 27, 2024, in St. Petersburg, Fla. (AP Photo/Mike Carlson)

A woman looks at her dogs sitting on a sofa, as she stands inside her home that was flooded in the passing of Hurricane Helene, in Batabano, Mayabeque province, Cuba, Thursday, Sept. 26, 2024. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)

A woman walks past a house hit by a rocket fired from Lebanon, in Moreshet, northern Israel, on Sunday, Sept. 22, 2024. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

A shell-shocked Ukrainian soldier of the Azov brigade sits at the stabilization point after arriving from the front line, near Toretsk, Donetsk region, Ukraine, Tuesday, Sept. 24, 2024. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)

Police detain a protestor during a demonstration against President Javier Milei's veto of a pension raise in front of Congress in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Wednesday, Sept. 11, 2024. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)

Relatives try to comfort a woman crying after viewing the body of Ugandan Olympic athlete Rebecca Cheptegei at Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital morgue in the western city of Eldoret, in Rift Valley, Kenya Friday, Sept. 13, 2024. (AP Photo/Andrew Kasuku)

Participants hold posters celebrating marriage equality in Bangkok, Thailand, Wednesday, Sept. 25, 2024. (AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit)

An Asaro mudman has a drink of water as Pope Francis gives an address during his meeting with young people at the Sir John Guise Stadium in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea, Monday, Sept. 9, 2024. (AP Photo/Mark Baker)

Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump, left, and Republican vice presidential nominee Sen. JD Vance, R-Ohio, attend the 9/11 Memorial ceremony on the 23rd anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks, Wednesday, Sept. 11, 2024, in New York. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura)

A pedestrian stops to watch a television across the street at Alley Cat showing the presidential debate between Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump and Democratic presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris, Tuesday, Sept. 10, 2024, in Providence, R.I. (AP Photo/David Goldman)

Israelis take cover next to a shelter as a siren sounds a warning of incoming rockets fired from Lebanon, in Nahariya, northern Israel, Thursday, Sept. 19, 2024. (AP Photo/Baz Ratner)

A youth cycles past a man taking a bucket bath at a school where people displaced by gang violence have been living for over a year in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Friday, Sept. 20, 2024. (AP Photo/Odelyn Joseph)

A bee and a sunflower are silhouetted against the setting sun in a field Saturday, Sept. 7, 2024, near Lawrence, Kan. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)

A woman cries during the funeral procession of two Hezbollah members, killed when a handheld device exploded, in the southern suburbs of Beirut, Lebanon, Thursday, Sept. 19, 2024. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

A man who was injured in the explosion of one of the handheld devices, sits outside the Eye Specialist hospital, in Beirut, Lebanon, Friday, Sept. 20, 2024. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

A Ukrainian serviceman of the Liut brigade fires his D-30 artillery cannon towards the Russian position near Toretsk, Donetsk region, Ukraine, Sunday, Sept. 22, 2024. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)

Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton of Britain steers his car during the qualifying session of the Singapore Formula One Grand Prix at the Marina Bay Street Circuit, in Singapore, Saturday, Sept. 21, 2024. (AP Photo/Vincent Thian)

Flames rise after an Israeli airstrike in the southern suburbs of Beirut, Lebanon, Saturday, Sept. 28, 2024. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

The Tribute in Light is seen in the sky in New York's Lower Manhattan from the Staten Island Ferry on the 23rd anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, Wednesday, Sept. 11, 2024, in New York. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura)

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Lead photo: First-graders attend the traditional ceremony for the first day of school in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine, Sunday Sept. 1, 2024. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)

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This collection was curated by Assistant Director of Global Photo Production Courtney Dittmar and Photo Editor Patrick Sison .