Jul 8, 2014

Israeli air strikes in the Gaza Strip, earthquake aftermath in Guatemala, more festivities in Spain | July 8

The day in pictures around the world.

: Smoke and flames are seen following what police said was an Israeli air strike in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip July 8, 2014. Israel bombarded dozens of targets in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, stepping up what it said might become a long-term offensive against Islamist Hamas after a surge in Palestinian rocket attacks on Israeli towns. (REUTERS/Ibraheem Abu Mustafa)

: A Palestinian woman inspects her house which police said was damaged in an Israeli air strike on a neighbouring house in Gaza City July 8, 2014. Israel launched an aerial offensive in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, bombing more than 30 targets including homes and calling it part of a campaign named “Operation Protective Edge” targeting Hamas Islamist militants firing rockets at the Jewish state. The military urged Israelis within a 40-km (24-mile) radius of the southern coastal territory to stay within reach of protected areas and ordered summer camps shut as a precaution against rocket fire. Palestinian officials said Israel bombed more than 30 targets in little more than an hour before dawn, including two homes in southern Gaza, one of which was identified by a neighbour as belonging to a Hamas member. (REUTERS/Mohammed Salem)

: A monsoon lightning storm strikes over the Mandalay Bay Resorts and Casino and Luxor hotels in Las Vegas, Nevada late July 7, 2014. Monsoon storms are forecast for the the rest of the week in the Nevada and Arizona states. The Luxor Sky Beam can be seen shining into the sky from the top of the hotel’s pyramid structure. (REUTERS/Gene Blevins)

: An earthquake-damaged house is pictured in the San Marcos region, in the northwest of Guatemala, July 7, 2014. A strong earthquake shook the Guatemalan border with Mexico on Monday, killing at least four people, damaging dozens of buildings and triggering landslides. The 6.9 magnitude quake struck near the frontier, and much of the damage was reported in the Guatemalan border region of San Marcos, where it downed power lines, opened cracks in buildings and triggered landslides which blocked roads. (REUTERS/Jorge Dan Lopez)

: Giant-Shimano team rider Marcel Kittel (L) of Germany reacts as he crosses the finish line to win the 163.5 km fourth stage of the Tour de France cycling race from Le Touquet-Paris-Plage to Lille July 8, 2014. (REUTERS/Jean-Paul Pelissier)

: A young girl runs through a sprinkler at a playground in the Brooklyn borough of New York July 7, 2014. (REUTERS/Brendan McDermid)

: Runners enter the bullring during the second running of the bulls of the San Fermin festival in Pamplona July 8, 2014. Two runners were hospitalized following a run that lasted two minutes and twenty seconds, according to local media. (REUTERS/Vincent West)

: A woman cleans a bar entrance near a bunch of balloons at the San Fermin festival in Pamplona July 7, 2014. The San Fermin festival, a heady mix of drinking, dancing, late nights and bullfights, made famous by Ernest Hemingway in his novel “The Sun Also Rises”, runs for nine days until July 14. (REUTERS/Vincent West)

: A notebook belonging to an al Qaeda fighter, which was found in a former militant training camp in southern Yemen in May 2014, is seen in this picture taken July 8, 2014. The left page shows diagrams depicting various types of ambushes. (REUTERS/Martin Dokoupil)

: Members of the Syrian Civil Defence rescue a man under the rubble following a reported barrel-bomb attack by Syrian government forces on July 7, 2014 in the Qadi Askar neighbourhood in Aleppo. The opposition Syrian National Coalition said Sunday that regime forces are preparing to launch a major assault on rebel-held areas of the northern city of Aleppo. (AFP/Getty Images/Ahmed Deeb)

: Workers work at the ‘Gulliver’ sculpture on July 8, 2014 in the amusement park “Gulliver’s World” in Pudagla, on the island of Usedom, Germany. The sculpture of “Gulliver in Lilliput” is 36 meters long and 17 meters wide, which is one of the largest of its kind in Europe. The sculpture will be shown from July 11, 2014. (AFP/Getty/Stefan Sauer)

: A man swims in the Hsintien river in the New Taipei City as typhoon Neoguri nears the eastern Taiwan on July 8, 2014. Japan was bracing for one of its worst storms in over a decade as typhoon Neoguri barreled towards the southern Okinawa island chain, with 55,000 people urged to evacuate as the weather agency issued its highest alert. (AFP/Getty Images/Sam Yeh)