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  1. Medics stand beside a stretcher to wait for possible survivors after a boat sank at a harbour in Marsa Alam, Red Sea Governorate, in Egypt 25 Novermber 2024. Two medics are wearing black and blue medical suits. They are standing on a wooden platform by the sea.

  2. Two women hug as another looks on tearfully outside a damaged home in Lebanon

  3. A lorry carrying humanitarian aid crosses into southern Gaza via the Israeli-controlled Kerem Shalom crossing in southern Israel (11 November 2024)

  4. A Lebanese army soldier stands in front of ruined building in the city of Sidon, southern Lebanon

  5. Medics stand beside a stretcher to wait for possible survivors after a boat sank at a harbour in Marsa Alam, Red Sea Governorate, in Egypt 25 Novermber 2024. Two medics are wearing black and blue medical suits. They are standing on a wooden platform by the sea.

  6. File photo showing Rabbi Zvi Kogan wearing a hat and glasses

  7. People check through rubble near a damaged house in Israel after rocket strike

  8. Zvi Kogan is seen in a portrait photograph. A bearded man, he is smiling at the camera and wearing glasses with clear plastic frames. There is a black hat, a fedora, on his head.

  9. A man walks past a poster displaying dozens of people taken hostage by Hamas into Gaza.

  10. The scene of destruction following a massive Israeli strike on central Beirut. An excavator is digging through the rubble as dozens of rescue workers move around. It's daylight and dust hangs in the air.

  11. BBC Middle East correspondent Hugo Bachega at scene of destroyed building in Beirut, Lebanon

  12. File photo of a convoy of white cars with UN painted on the hood driving through the southern Lebanon town of Tyre

  13. A girl stands among the rubble of buildings destroyed by Israeli air strikes in in Khan Yunis, the Gaza Strip. Photo: 17 November 2024

  14. Franco-Algerian writer Boualem Sansal poses in a brown jacket and grey scarf beside a newspaper kiosk in Paris in 2015

  15. Composite picture of Benjamin Netanyahu and Yoav Gallant and Mohammed Deif

  16. Palestinians inspect damage to a building hit in an Israeli air strike, in the Sheikh Radwan neighbourhood of Gaza City, in northern Gaza (21 November 2024)

  17. A Palestinian man, wearing a red tracksuit, inspects rubble left from a house hit by a strike, as two young girls sit on a staircase

  18. Saada Arbane attended a press conference with her lawyer (face partially seen in top left of image). Ms Arbane is visible from chest up; she has a visible speaking tube on her throat, long brown hair, spectacles and is wearing a white blouse with blue flowers.

  19. Benjamin Netanyahu (02/11/22)

  20. Members of the United Nations Security Council listen as Ambassador Majed Bamya, Deputy Permanent Observer of the State of Palestine to the UN, speaks meeting on the situation in the Middle East, including the Palestinian question at the UN headquarters on November 20, 2024 in New York City.

  21. Screengrab of video purportedly showing a large cloud of smoke and dust rising from Palmyra following what the Syrian military said were Israeli air strikes (20 November 2024)

  22. US envoy Amos Hochstein (L) meets Lebanese Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri in Beirut, Lebanon (20 November 2024)

  23. Adam Kassak (on the left) and Ali Baydoun smile at the camera with their arms crossed in front of their chests

  24. Palestinians search for survivors among a mess of rubble in a street after an Israeli air strike in Beit Lahia, northern Gaza (17 November 2024)