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  1. Israeli soldiers stand on top of a rocky hill with snow covering much of the ground, with soldiers loading or unloading items from the back of white vehicles

  2. Lina Sinjab wearing a pink cardigan at a rally in Damascus

  3. A woman gestures at the camera, with a crowd of other people celebrating behind her

  4. Entrance to a prison with several people walking in front of it

  5. Travis Timmerman looks up, with a camera pointing down on him, as he sits in a dark room.

  6. Syrian Kurd flees on road

  7. A flag-draped casket is carried during a funeral for Syrian activist Mazen al-Hamada on December 12, 2024 in Damascus, Syria

  8. Two young children in Aleppo.

  9. A woman in Damascus holds up her phone showing a photo of the relative she's looking for

  10. Bowen looks at the camera against a backdrop of lush furnishings

  11. A treated image of a smashed framed photo of Bashar al-Assad on the left and a photo of Ali Khamenei

  12. Marcus Fakana in school uniform

  13. Nour Al-Baarini sat against a purple BBC backdrop, with a view of Birmingham's skyline. He is wearing a white shirt and smiling.

  14. Palestinians mourn next to the bodies of their relatives who were killed in an Israeli air strike, west of Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip, on 12 December 2024

  15. Israeli forces stand near a bus that was attacked by a Palestinian gunmen, killing an Israeli boy, at the Tunnel Military Checkpoint between Jerusalem and the West Bank city of Bethlehem (12 December 2024). A police car with blue light is in the foreground

  16. A woman opens a prison door in a corridor of Saydnaya prison. She is wearing a dark coat and hat and her face is covered with a scarf. In the background, along the corridor, is another group of people.

  17. Jeremy Bowen walking with a crowd of people in Damascus heading towards what they believe is a public execution

  18. Rebel fighters stand next to the burning gravesite of Syria's late president Hafez al-Assad at his mausoleum

  19. Five male Syrian rebels hold two Syrian flags with their arms raised in celebration standing over the burned gravesite of Hafez al-Assad.

  20. isralei troops in a jeep

  21. Russian submarines docked in Tartous in 2019. An armed soldier stands next to the vessels on a dock.

  22. A Palestinian man walks over rubble following an Israeli air strike on a home in Nuseirat refugee camp, central Gaza (11 December 2024)

  23. Jehad Rached inside his shop

  24. Tawfiq Diam, staring at a camera, in the middle of a street