The Most Powerful News Photos Of The Year

Butler, Pennsylvania.Anna Moneymaker/Getty ImagesGetty Images released its top 100 most powerful news photos of the year.Photos show key moments in the 2024 presidential election and conflicts in the Middle East.Photographers captured the aftermath of natural disasters and phenomena like the solar eclipse.Getty Images released a compilation of the most powerful news photos taken by their photographers in 2024.Throughout the year, photojournalists captured the defining images of the biggest news stories related to politics, military conflicts, natural disasters, and other global issues."Regardless of the assignment, Getty Images photographers and videographers produced honest, moving, and gripping images of humanity at its highest and lowest moments and painted a picture of the world in all of its complexity without bias or manipulation, producing a trusted and memorable historic document of 2024," Sandy Ciric, senior director of news photography at Getty Images, told Business Insider.Here are 30 of the best news photos of the year.On January 10, Ukrainian soldiers fired an 82mm mortar in Kreminna.Kreminna, Ukraine.Kostiantyn Liberov/Libkos/Getty ImagesMortar platoon soldiers endured temperatures of -15 degrees Celsius while holding their positions.Palestinian children played in the ruins of Rafah in Gaza on January 31.Rafah, Gaza.Ahmad Hasaballah/Getty ImagesMahmoud Al-Durra and his children were displaced from Gaza City amid the Israel-Hamas war.On February 8, Pakistani citizens attended an event at the Pakistan Muslim League party office ahead of the general elections.Lahore, Pakistan.Elke Scholiers/Getty ImagesThe elections were held two years after Pakistan's Prime Minister Imran Khan was ousted in a no-confidence vote.San Francisco Drag Laureate D'Arcy Drollinger officiated the wedding of a same-sex couple on Valentine's Day at San Francisco City Hall.San Francisco, California.Justin Sullivan/Getty ImagesThe event marked 20 years since the first same-sex marriages in San Francisco.Multimillion-dollar mansions were left precariously perched on a cliff on February 27 after a landslide in Dana Point, California.Dana Point, California.Mario Tama/Getty ImagesOn February 4, Gov.