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Situation Of Refugees In Gaza

People move near a breakwater at sunset along the coast in Gaza City, Gaza on May 22, 2025. Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, deprived of the most basic needs such as shelter, food and clean water, struggle to survive their daily lives in difficult living conditions. Photo by Middle East/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Situation Of Refugees In Gaza

People move near a breakwater at sunset along the coast in Gaza City, Gaza on May 22, 2025. Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, deprived of the most basic needs such as shelter, food and clean water, struggle to survive their daily lives in difficult living conditions. Photo by Middle East/ABACAPRESS.COM

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U.S.-CHICAGO-HEAT WAVE

(240618) -- CHICAGO, June 18, 2024 Photo by Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM) -- A lifeguard keeps an eye out along a breakwater in Chicago, the United States on June 17, 2024. Chicagoans have been taken aback by the heat wave when they stepped out of houses Monday morning. (Photo by Vincent D. Johnson/Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM

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U.S.-CHICAGO-HEAT WAVE

(240618) -- CHICAGO, June 18, 2024 Photo by Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM) -- A man relaxes along a breakwater in Chicago, the United States on June 17, 2024. Chicagoans have been taken aback by the heat wave when they stepped out of houses Monday morning. (Photo by Vincent D. Johnson/Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM

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U.S.-CHICAGO-HEAT WAVE

(240618) -- CHICAGO, June 18, 2024 (Xinhua) -- A man relaxes along a breakwater in Chicago, the United States on June 17, 2024. Chicagoans have been taken aback by the heat wave when they stepped out of houses Monday morning. (Photo by Vincent D. Johnson/Xinhua)

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U.S.-CHICAGO-HEAT WAVE

(240618) -- CHICAGO, June 18, 2024 (Xinhua) -- A lifeguard keeps an eye out along a breakwater in Chicago, the United States on June 17, 2024. Chicagoans have been taken aback by the heat wave when they stepped out of houses Monday morning. (Photo by Vincent D. Johnson/Xinhua)

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Vessel from Ukraine grounded in Türkiye's Bosphorus Strait

STORY: Vessel from Ukraine grounded in Türkiye's Bosphorus Strait SHOOTING TIME: May 7, 2024 DATELINE: May 7, 2024 LENGTH: 00:00:55 LOCATION: ISTANBUL, Türkiye CATEGORY: SOCIETY SHOTLIST: 1. various of the cargo vessel stranded at the southwestern gateway of Istanbul's Bosphorus Strait STORYLINE: A cargo vessel bound for Egypt from Ukraine ran aground at the southwestern gateway of Istanbul's Bosphorus Strait on Tuesday, prompting authorities to suspend maritime traffic. The 229-meter-long cargo ship Alexis ran aground near the Haydarpasa breakwater along the Asian shoreline due to a machine malfunctioning, the Directorate General of Coastal Safety said on X, formerly Twitter. Traffic along the strait was temporarily halted in both directions while rescue boats and scuba divers converged on the site, said the directorate. "After conducting an underwater investigation led by our divers, our emergency response vessel, Nenehatun, has reached the affected area," it said. The Bosphorus Strait, which c

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Odesa residents recreate by Black Sea

ODESA, UKRAINE - JANUARY 01, 2024 - Two men stand on the breakwater and watch the waves of the Black Sea, Odesa, southern Ukraine

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Turkish cargo vessel with 12-member crew sinks off Black Sea coast

STORY: Turkish cargo vessel with 12-member crew sinks off Black Sea coast SHOOTING TIME: Nov. 19, 20, 2023 DATELINE: Nov. 20, 2023 LENGTH: 00:00:49 LOCATION: ZONGULDAK, Türkiye CATEGORY: OTHERS SHOTLIST: 1. various of the cargo ship going aground in the northwestern city of Eregli, Türkiye's Black Sea coast (shooting time: Nov. 19, 2023) 2. SOUNDBITE (Turkish): ALI YERLIKAYA, Turkish Interior Minister (courtesy of ihlas news agency) (shooting time: Nov. 20, 2023) STORYLINE: A Turkish cargo ship and its 12-member crew sank off Türkiye's Black Sea coast during a storm on Sunday, the country's Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya said Monday. The authorities have been unable to make contact with the crew, the minister told reporters in the northwestern city of Eregli. The "Kafkametler" vessel, which was transporting ferrosilicon from the Russian port of Temryuk to Aliaga in Türkiye, sank after hitting the breakwater in Eregli, he said. The region was hit by powerful storms on Sunday and the bad weather prevente

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Rolex Middle Sea Race 2023

VALLETTA, OCTOBER 21: The ''Bullitt'' yacht racing boat prepares to exit the breakwater soon after the start of one of the races during the 44th Rolex Middle Sea Race at the Malta Grand Harbour, in Valletta, Malta, on 21 October 2023. (Photo by Domenic Aquilina/NurPhoto)

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Rolex Middle Sea Race 2023

VALLETTA, OCTOBER 21: The ''Ocean Breeze'' yacht racing boat prepares to exit the breakwater soon after the start of one of the races during the 44th Rolex Middle Sea Race at the Malta Grand Harbour, in Valletta, Malta, on 21 October 2023. (Photo by Domenic Aquilina/NurPhoto)

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Rolex Middle Sea Race 2023

VALLETTA, OCTOBER 21: Yacht racing boats prepare to exit the breakwater soon after the start of one of the races during the 44th Rolex Middle Sea Race at the Malta Grand Harbour, in Valletta, Malta, on 21 October 2023. (Photo by Domenic Aquilina/NurPhoto)

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Rolex Middle Sea Race 2023

VALLETTA, OCTOBER 21: Yacht racing boats prepare to exit the breakwater soon after the start of one of the races during the 44th Rolex Middle Sea Race at the Malta Grand Harbour, in Valletta, Malta, on 21 October 2023. (Photo by Domenic Aquilina/NurPhoto)

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Rolex Middle Sea Race 2023

VALLETTA, OCTOBER 21: Yacht racing boats exit the Ricasoli lighthouse out of the breakwater soon after the start of one of the races during the 44th Rolex Middle Sea Race at the Malta Grand Harbour, in Valletta, Malta, on 21 October 2023. (Photo by Domenic Aquilina/NurPhoto)

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Rolex Middle Sea Race 2023

VALLETTA, OCTOBER 21: Yacht racing boats exit the Ricasoli lighthouse out of the breakwater soon after the start of one of the races during the 44th Rolex Middle Sea Race at the Malta Grand Harbour, in Valletta, Malta, on 21 October 2023. (Photo by Domenic Aquilina/NurPhoto)

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Rolex Middle Sea Race 2023

VALLETTA, OCTOBER 21: The ''Pyewacket 70'' yacht racing boat prepares to exit the breakwater soon after the start of one of the races during the 44th Rolex Middle Sea Race at the Malta Grand Harbour, in Valletta, Malta, on 21 October 2023. (Photo by Domenic Aquilina/NurPhoto)

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Rolex Middle Sea Race 2023

VALLETTA, OCTOBER 21: The ''Bullitt'' yacht racing boat prepares to exit the breakwater soon after the start of one of the races during the 44th Rolex Middle Sea Race at the Malta Grand Harbour, in Valletta, Malta, on 21 October 2023. (Photo by Domenic Aquilina/NurPhoto)

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Rolex Middle Sea Race 2023

VALLETTA, OCTOBER 21: The ''Bullitt'' yacht racing boat prepares to exit the breakwater soon after the start of one of the races during the 44th Rolex Middle Sea Race at the Malta Grand Harbour, in Valletta, Malta, on 21 October 2023. (Photo by Domenic Aquilina/NurPhoto)

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Storm Babet Hartlepool, UK

Waves caused by Storm Babet batter the Heugh Breakwater at Hartlepool, County Durham on Friday 20th October 2023. (Photo: Michael Driver | MI News) (Photo by MI News/NurPhoto)

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Storm Babet Hartlepool, UK

Waves caused by Storm Babet batter the Heugh Breakwater at Hartlepool, County Durham on Friday 20th October 2023. (Photo: Michael Driver | MI News) (Photo by MI News/NurPhoto)

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Storm Babet Hartlepool, UK

Waves caused by Storm Babet batter the Heugh Breakwater at Hartlepool, County Durham on Friday 20th October 2023. (Photo: Michael Driver | MI News) (Photo by MI News/NurPhoto)

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CHINA-HAINAN-WENCHANG-FISHING PORT-CONSTRUCTION (CN)

(230715) -- WENCHANG, July 15, 2023 (Xinhua) -- This aerial photo taken on July 14, 2023 shows the Puqian central fishing port under construction in Puqian Township of Wenchang City, south China's Hainan Province. The Puqian central fishing port is a key construction project in Hainan Province. The project is made up of public welfare fishery wharf, breakwater, fishery production supporting facilities, aiming at building a modern central fishing port. (Xinhua/Pu Xiaoxu)

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CHINA-HAINAN-WENCHANG-FISHING PORT-CONSTRUCTION (CN)

(230715) -- WENCHANG, July 15, 2023 (Xinhua) -- This photo taken on July 14, 2023 shows the Puqian central fishing port under construction in Puqian Township of Wenchang City, south China's Hainan Province. The Puqian central fishing port is a key construction project in Hainan Province. The project is made up of public welfare fishery wharf, breakwater, fishery production supporting facilities, aiming at building a modern central fishing port. (Xinhua/Pu Xiaoxu)

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CHINA-HAINAN-WENCHANG-FISHING PORT-CONSTRUCTION (CN)

(230715) -- WENCHANG, July 15, 2023 (Xinhua) -- This aerial photo taken on July 14, 2023 shows the Puqian central fishing port under construction in Puqian Township of Wenchang City, south China's Hainan Province. The Puqian central fishing port is a key construction project in Hainan Province. The project is made up of public welfare fishery wharf, breakwater, fishery production supporting facilities, aiming at building a modern central fishing port. (Xinhua/Pu Xiaoxu)

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CHINA-HAINAN-WENCHANG-FISHING PORT-CONSTRUCTION (CN)

(230715) -- WENCHANG, July 15, 2023 (Xinhua) -- This aerial photo taken on July 14, 2023 shows the Puqian central fishing port under construction in Puqian Township of Wenchang City, south China's Hainan Province. The Puqian central fishing port is a key construction project in Hainan Province. The project is made up of public welfare fishery wharf, breakwater, fishery production supporting facilities, aiming at building a modern central fishing port. (Xinhua/Pu Xiaoxu)

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CHINA-HAINAN-WENCHANG-FISHING PORT-CONSTRUCTION (CN)

(230715) -- WENCHANG, July 15, 2023 (Xinhua) -- This aerial photo taken on July 14, 2023 shows the Puqian central fishing port under construction in Puqian Township of Wenchang City, south China's Hainan Province. The Puqian central fishing port is a key construction project in Hainan Province. The project is made up of public welfare fishery wharf, breakwater, fishery production supporting facilities, aiming at building a modern central fishing port. (Xinhua/Pu Xiaoxu)

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Climate Change Causes Sea Level Rise On The North Coast Of West Java

KARAWANG, INDONESIA - JUNE 21: Villagers performing maintenance work on the so called 'Low Threshold Breakwater Technology' construction to slow down the pace of the rising sea impacting their village at Pisangan Beach in Cemarajaya Village of Karawang regency in West Java, Indonesia on June 21, 2023. The impact of sea level rise and tidal flooding have been out missing around 300 houses in coastal Karawang. Rob floods have destroyed and inundated several villages and urban centers including farm fields in nearly all parts of Karawang. (Photo by Garry Lotulung/NurPhoto)

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Climate Change Causes Sea Level Rise On The North Coast Of West Java

KARAWANG, INDONESIA - JUNE 21: Villagers performing maintenance work on the so called 'Low Threshold Breakwater Technology' construction to slow down the pace of the rising sea impacting their village at Pisangan Beach in Cemarajaya Village of Karawang regency in West Java, Indonesia on June 21, 2023. The impact of sea level rise and tidal flooding have been out missing around 300 houses in coastal Karawang. Rob floods have destroyed and inundated several villages and urban centers including farm fields in nearly all parts of Karawang. (Photo by Garry Lotulung/NurPhoto)

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Climate Change Causes Sea Level Rise On The North Coast Of West Java

KARAWANG, INDONESIA - JUNE 21: Villagers performing maintenance work on the so called 'Low Threshold Breakwater Technology' construction to slow down the pace of the rising sea impacting their village at Pisangan Beach in Cemarajaya Village of Karawang regency in West Java, Indonesia on June 21, 2023. The impact of sea level rise and tidal flooding have been out missing around 300 houses in coastal Karawang. Rob floods have destroyed and inundated several villages and urban centers including farm fields in nearly all parts of Karawang. (Photo by Garry Lotulung/NurPhoto)

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Climate Change Causes Sea Level Rise On The North Coast Of West Java

KARAWANG, INDONESIA - JUNE 21: Villagers performing maintenance work on the so called 'Low Threshold Breakwater Technology' construction to slow down the pace of the rising sea impacting their village at Pisangan Beach in Cemarajaya Village of Karawang regency in West Java, Indonesia on June 21, 2023. The impact of sea level rise and tidal flooding have been out missing around 300 houses in coastal Karawang. Rob floods have destroyed and inundated several villages and urban centers including farm fields in nearly all parts of Karawang. (Photo by Garry Lotulung/NurPhoto)

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Climate Change Causes Sea Level Rise On The North Coast Of West Java

KARAWANG, INDONESIA - JUNE 21: Villagers performing maintenance work on the so called 'Low Threshold Breakwater Technology' construction to slow down the pace of the rising sea impacting their village at Pisangan Beach in Cemarajaya Village of Karawang regency in West Java, Indonesia on June 21, 2023. The impact of sea level rise and tidal flooding have been out missing around 300 houses in coastal Karawang. Rob floods have destroyed and inundated several villages and urban centers including farm fields in nearly all parts of Karawang. (Photo by Garry Lotulung/NurPhoto)

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Climate Change Causes Sea Level Rise On The North Coast Of West Java

KARAWANG, INDONESIA - JUNE 21: Villagers performing maintenance work on the so called 'Low Threshold Breakwater Technology' construction to slow down the pace of the rising sea impacting their village at Pisangan Beach in Cemarajaya Village of Karawang regency in West Java, Indonesia on June 21, 2023. The impact of sea level rise and tidal flooding have been out missing around 300 houses in coastal Karawang. Rob floods have destroyed and inundated several villages and urban centers including farm fields in nearly all parts of Karawang. (Photo by Garry Lotulung/NurPhoto)

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Climate Change Causes Sea Level Rise On The North Coast Of West Java

KARAWANG, INDONESIA - JUNE 21: Villagers performing maintenance work on the so called 'Low Threshold Breakwater Technology' construction to slow down the pace of the rising sea impacting their village at Pisangan Beach in Cemarajaya Village of Karawang regency in West Java, Indonesia on June 21, 2023. The impact of sea level rise and tidal flooding have been out missing around 300 houses in coastal Karawang. Rob floods have destroyed and inundated several villages and urban centers including farm fields in nearly all parts of Karawang. (Photo by Garry Lotulung/NurPhoto)

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Containers washed up to beach in southern Israel after storm

STORY: Containers washed up to beach in southern Israel after storm DATELINE: Dec. 29, 2022 LENGTH: 0:02:33 LOCATION: Jerusalem CATEGORY: SOCIETY SHOTLIST: 1. various of containers on the beach of the southern Israeli city of Ashkelon STORYLINE: Stormy weather in Israel on Tuesday caused some containers to drift from a ship that was docked near the breakwater in the southern Israeli city of Ashkelon. Three of the containers washed up to the shore. Xinhua News Agency correspondents reporting from Jerusalem. (XHTV)

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Tokyo's Central Breakwater landfills

TOKYO, Japan, Dec. 29 Kyodo - File photo taken on Dec. 23, 2017, shows an aerial view of the Central Breakwater landfill sites in Tokyo Bay.

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Tokyo's Central Breakwater landfills

TOKYO, Japan, Dec. 29 Kyodo - File photo taken on Dec. 23, 2017, shows an aerial view of the Central Breakwater landfill sites in Tokyo Bay.

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Tokyo's Central Breakwater landfills

TOKYO, Japan, Dec. 29 Kyodo - File photo taken on Dec. 23, 2017, shows an aerial view of the Central Breakwater landfill sites in Tokyo Bay.

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Tragedy of 10-meter-tall breakwater put in sharp focus

SENDAI, Japan - A photograph of the 10-meter-tall coastal breakwater (L) in the Taro district of Miyako, Iwate Prefecture, taken on July 19, 2009, indicates the structure was not high enough prior to the 2011 quake-tsunami disaster as the other picture taken on Sept. 1, 2014, shows most of the nearby houses gone. Part of the breakwater will be kept to show what remained just after the devastating tsunami hit.

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Coastal breakwater rebuilding in progress in north Japan

SENDAI, Japan - The severed coastal breakwater (L) in the town of Yamamoto, Miyagi Prefecture, is seen from a Kyodo News helicopter on March 19, 2011, eight days after the devastating earthquake and tsunami that hit the northeastern Japan region. Rebuilding of the breakwater in the same area (R) is in progress on Sept. 3, 2014.

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Tsunami-hit Iwate beach reopens after 3 years of cleanup

MORIOKA, Japan - Children play at Kirikiri beach in the town of Otsuchi, Iwate Prefecture, on July 26, 2014, after it reopened following three years of work to remove debris caused by the 2011 earthquake and tsunami. Only one-third, or a roughly 130-meter section, of the beach is open for swimming through Aug. 10 due to ongoing work to rebuild a breakwater.

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Tsunami-hit Iwate beach reopens after 3 years of cleanup

MORIOKA, Japan - Children play at Kirikiri beach in the town of Otsuchi, Iwate Prefecture, on July 26, 2014, after it reopened following three years of work to remove debris caused by the 2011 earthquake and tsunami. Only one-third, or a roughly 130-meter section, of the beach is open for swimming through Aug. 10 due to ongoing work to rebuild a breakwater.

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Kyoto Univ's tsunami breakwater model tested

KYOTO, Japan - Kyoto University's Disaster Prevention Research Institute conducts an operation test of a tsunami breakwater model at the Ujigawa Open Laboratory in Kyoto City on July 16, 2014, using an artificially reproduced tsunami.

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Kyoto Univ. lab tests movable tsunami breakwater

KYOTO, Japan - An artificially reproduced tsunami is weakened by a prototype movable breakwater developed by the Disaster Prevention Research Institute of Kyoto University during a test operation at the Ujigawa Open Laboratory in Kyoto, western Japan, on July 16, 2014.

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Kyoto Univ. lab tests movable tsunami breakwater

KYOTO, Japan - A facility that artificially reproduces tsunami is shown to the press at the Ujigawa Open Laboratory of the Disaster Prevention Research Institute of Kyoto University in Kyoto, western Japan, on July 16, 2014. The equipment was used for the day's test operation of a movable tsunami breakwater.

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Vertical telescopic breakwater under development

OSAKA, Japan - The vertical telescopic breakwater, a buoyancy-driven vertical piling breakwater system under development in defense against tsunami, is seen in Kainan, Wakayama Prefecture, in March 2013. It was learned on June 19, 2014, that the breakwater, expected to be implemented as the world's first such system by the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism's Kinki Regional Development Bureau, may not function properly due to a lack of strength.

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Floating breakwater system to weaken tsunami

SHIZUOKA, Japan - Yoshihide Uchiyama of a research group set up by citizens in Shizuoka explains about an experiment on the "Megawall" floating breakwater system, aiming at reducing the height of tsunami to 1/9 or lower, on May 3, 2014, in the central Japanese city.

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Spotted seals rest at port in Hokkaido, Japan

WAKKANAI, Japan - Spotted seals, migrating south to pass the winter, rest on snow-capped breakwater blocks at the Bakkai fishing port in Wakkanai on Japan's northernmost main island of Hokkaido on Feb. 23, 2014.

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Typhoon Man-yi

NAGOYA, Japan - High waves batter a breakwater in Kumano, Mie Prefecture, on Sept. 15, 2013, as Man-yi, the 18th typhoon of the year, approaches.

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Typhoon Man-yi

NAGOYA, Japan - High waves batter a breakwater in Kumano, Mie Prefecture, on Sept. 15, 2013, as Man-yi, the 18th typhoon of the year, approaches.

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2 and a half years after quake

SENDAI, Japan - Combination photos taken from a Kyodo News helicopter show a coastal area in the town of Yamamoto, Miyagi Prefecture, on March 19, 2011 (L), shortly after the March 11, 2011, Great East Japan Earthquake, and about two and a half years later on Sept. 6, 2013 (R) with a breakwater under construction.