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  1. File photo showing members of Hamas's military wing, the Izzedine al-Qassam Brigades, brandishing weapons at a ceremony where an Israeli hostage was handed over to the Red Cross, in Gaza City (1 February 2025)

  2. During a sandstorm in Najaf, Iraq on 14 April 2024, a man dressed in a black shirt with red and white stripes walks hand in hand with a woman dressed in a black burka. They are crossing a busy road with cars as thick, orange cloud blankets the air and lights from street lamps shimmer around them.

  3. A building destroyed by an Israeli air strike at al-Ahli hospital, Gaza City, northern Gaza (13 April 2025)

  4. A handout photo made available by the Algerian Ministry of Foreign Affairs shows French Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot (L) being welcomed by Algerian Foreign Minister Ahmed Attaf (R) at the Ministry's headquarters in Algiers, Algeria, 06 April 2025

  5. Assad al-Nassasra

  6. A wide shot of a boy walking through debris

  7. US envoy Steve Witkoff on the left and Iran's Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi on the right

  8. A worker wearing a white hard hat rides a bicycle in front of the reactor building of the Bushehr nuclear power plant, just outside the southern city of Bushehr, Iran, in October 2010.

  9. Israeli soldiers conducting operations in a location given as Tel Al-Sultan area, Rafah Governorate, Gaza

  10. Lishay and her two young daughers sit next to a large photo of Omri Miran

  11. Palestinians forced to leave Shujaiyye neighbourhood east of Gaza City, 11 April

  12. A demonstrator holds a sign reading 'Free Mahmoud'

  13. A selfie of Lobna Yakout with her son Zayn, who is smiling and has dark curly hair with long eyelashes. His mum has dark hair and is wearing a brown top with a necklace.

  14. Close-up photo of Rifaat Radwan. He is looking at the camera, has black eyes and black beard. He is wearing a light blue shirt and a dark blue jacket.

  15. Recovery work in Dahieh, showing a large pile of debris, with a lot of pink crushed-up furniture. There's a lot of dust and emergency workers are standing on top of all the rubble.

  16. Palestinian Ahmed Manasra, released earlier in the day from an Israeli jail, leaves an Israeli security office accompanied by his father in Jerusalem on 10 April 2025

  17. Displaced Palestinians fleeing Rafah arrive in Khan Younis following new Israeli evacuation orders, in the southern Gaza Strip (31 March 2025)

  18. A screengrab from the video of the incident in Gaza in which the Israeli army killed 15 emergency workers

  19. People in the desert riding on horse-drawn carts.

  20. Mike Huckabee, has been voted in as the U.S. ambassador to Israel

  21. An Israeli F-35 fighter jet takes off from an undisclosed location in central Israel, (14 April 2024)

  22. A middle aged Syrian man sitting on a navy blue sofa in a suit jacket untucked blue shirt and white trousers. He has a Syrian flags colours draped around his neck in the shape and texture of a silk scarf.

  23. A Palestinian man holds a child following an Israeli air strike in the Shejaiya neighbourhood of Gaza City, northern Gaza (9 April 2025)

  24. Released Israeli hostage Omer Wenkert speaks during a rally in Hostages Square, Tel Aviv, Israel (5 April 2025)