Israeli security forces use water cannons to disperse protesters that had gathered outside the Knesset, the Israeli Parliament, in Jerusalem on March 31, 2026, during a demonstration against the passing of a law allowing for the death penalty against Palestinians. Under the new law passed by the Knesset late on March 30, Palestinians in the West Bank convicted by military courts of carrying out deadly attacks classified as ‘terrorism’ will face the death penalty as a default sentence. Ahmad Gharabli/AFP via Getty Images|March 31, 2026Updated:March 31, 2026Members of the Progressive Forces of South Africa (on behalf of concerned civic movements and South African citizens) respond to an official of the Nigerian Embassy during their protest in Pretoria, South Africa, on March 31, 2026, following the apparent installation of a Nigerian chief Solomon Ogbonna Eziko as an ‘Igbo King’ in KuGompo in the Eastern Cape. Phill Magakoe/AFP via Getty ImagesNASA’s 322-foot-tall Artemis II Space Launch System rocket and Orion spacecraft stand on Launch Complex 39B at Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla., on March 31, 2026. The 10-day mission will take NASA astronauts Commander Reid Wiseman, Pilot Victor Glover, Mission Specialist Christina Koch, and CSA (Canadian Space Agency) Mission Specialist Jeremy Hansen around the moon and back. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images
Day in Photos: Protest in Jerusalem, Farmworkers Day, and Geisha Dance
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