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  1. Joe Biden, wearing a navy suit, speaks at a lectern in the White House flanked by Vice President Kamala Harris and Secretary of State Antony Blinken

  2. A man in a read puffer jacket stands in a ruined street in Gaza. He is holding a shovel.

  3. Qatar Prime Minister Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim bin Jabr Al Thani

  4. A composite of images and video screengrabs from the Gaza "humanitarian zone" that have been verified as part of BBC Verify's analysis.

  5. An Israeli soldier passes by a wall covered with photos of hostages held by Hamas in Gaza, at Tel Aviv train station, Israel (14 January 2025)

  6. A composite image featuring Sea Story passengers being rescued in a small boat. In the foreground are the smiling portraits of three survivors - Justin, Froydis and Lisa.

  7. Sanabel, a 17-year-old Palestinian living in Gaza City

  8. A woman sits with a child as Palestinians inspect buildings damaged in an Israeli air strike in Gaza City, northern Gaza (14 January 2025)

  9. A composite image shows the Sea Story, a luxury white dive boat, at sea in the background, with three of the survivors who spoke to the BBC: Hissora Gonzalez, Lucianna Galetta and Sarah Martin.

  10. Nawaf Salam, president of the International Court of Justice (ICJ), attends a hearing in The Hague, the Netherlands (16 May 2024)

  11. A Palestinian girl sits amid the rubble of buildings destroyed in Israeli airstrikes, in Gaza City

  12. Nahid Taghavi (L) with her daughter Mariam Claren (R) at an airport

  13. U.S. President Joe Biden meets with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the Oval Office

  14. Ahmed Taha

  15. Joe Biden looks down, the image is in black and white with a red border

  16. Hania is sitting in a chair, smiling at the camera. She is wearing a pastel green top and a pastel blue headscarf.

  17. Mourners crouched with the covered body of a Palestinian killed in an Israeli air strike in Gaza (03/01/25)

  18. map of Lebanon

  19. Emergency workers survey some of the wreckage of Pan Am Flight 103. There are several people standing around some of the wreckage of the plane.

  20. A headshot portrait of a female settler

  21. In this image the Iranian flag can be seen flying over a street in Tehran, Iran, on February 3, 2023

  22. Palestinians look at the scene of a deadly Israeli drone strike in the village of Tammun, in the north of the occupied West Bank (8 January 2025)

  23. Joseph Aoun (C) inspects troops outside Lebanon's parliament building in Beirut (9 January 2025)

  24. Yousef Zyadna (family handout)