Best photography from a round the world, August 5

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  A Palestinian woman reacts as she sits on the rubble of her destroyed house after returning to Beit Hanoun town, which witnesses said was heavily hit by Israeli shelling and air strikes during the Israeli offensive. Suhaib Salem / Reuters

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  A border police officer checks a car whose driver had tried to enter Guatemala illegally at a blind spot, an unmonitored area of Honduras’ border with Guatemala, near Suyapa. Sites like Facebook, Yahoo and WhatsApp have changed, and in some cases accelerated, the decades-old northward migration of Central Americans by providing crowd-sourced information on the risks and rewards of making the journey. Jorge Cabrera / Reuters

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  A man wades through flood waters with his cat on a cooking pot in Hermosa, Bataan, northwest of Manila. Typhoon Halong, locally named ‘Jose,’ has intensified monsoon rains resulting in flooding in several parts of northern Philippines. Erik De Castro / Reuters

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  Cyclists lay on the road after crashing as they compete during the 2nd stage of the Tour de Mongolia from Sainshand to Choir. Mareike Guensche / Reuters

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  Michitane Soma (L), 34th generation lord of the Soma domain is being dressed by retainers in 10th century period costume prior to a rehearsal of the Soma-Nomaoi samurai festival in Soma city, located 40 kilometers from the destroyed nuclear power plants in Fukushima prefecture, Japan. The Soma family members continue to be treated as rulers by the inhabitants of Soma. The Soma area has an 1,100 year samurai tradition that is celebrated every summer during the annual Soma-Nomaoi festival. The three-day event attracts thousands of people to watch the 450 participants on horseback and dressed in antique 10th century period costumes to perform in cavalry displays, races and competitions. Everett Kennedy / EPA

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  Palestinian fishermen offload their catch in the port of Gaza City after a 72-hour truce agreed by Israel and Hamas went into effect following intense global pressure to end the bloody conflict. Mahmud Hams / AFP Photo

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  Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, Prince William, Duke of Cambridge and Prince Harry walk through a sea of red poppies inside the moat at the Tower of London. The Tower of London moat has turned turning red as some 888,246 ceramic poppies are planted in memory of the British and Commonwealth dead from World War One. Andu Rain / EPA

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The National View’s photo editors pick the best of the day from around the world