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  1. Undated family handout photo issued by the Israeli Embassy in London of Shiri Bibas with her son Kfir

  2. Women wearing the Israeli flag around their shoulders embrace in anguish as the convoy transporting the bodies of deceased hostages, identified at the time by Hamas as Oded Lifschitz, Shiri Bibas and her two children Kfir and Ariel Bibas arrived in Tel Aviv

  3. File photo shows posters bearing the portraits of Israeli hostages Shiri Bibas, and her two children Ariel and Kfir. The poster of Shiri says "bring her home now", while those of Ariel and Kfir say "bring him home now".

  4. A family photo showing the Bibas parents with their two small children

  5. Man looks at charred remains of bus (21/02/25)

  6. Sharone and Oded hugging each other and smiling. Photo taken in a house.

  7. Israeli soldiers carrying a coffin draped in the Israeli flag

  8. Abdullah Al-Yazouri walking in front of a demolished building

  9. A woman draped in an Israeli flag holds another person (20/02/25)

  10. A woman in black carries a sack of grain on her head. There are lots of other sacks in the background.

  11. The rock-surrounded entrance to the tomb of King Thutmose II

  12. Eli Sharabi is in the middle, being held by two hooded men in black and khaki clothing. He is gaunt and wearing a brown sweatshirt. He has a facial hair in the shape of a goatee and a balding hair line. He is holding a sign which has Arabic writing and a Palestinian flag in the corner

  13. More than a dozen campaigners standing together. Some are holding banners calling for people to be freed from Saudi prisons.

  14. A woman looks into the distance as she stands between Israeli flags in Tel Aviv

  15. Eli Sharabi and Steve Brisley hugging in a hospital in Israel.

  16. King Charles the third presenting a medal to Dr Matthew Newport. Newport has no hair and is wearing a navy suit.

  17. A protester holds signs calling for the release of hostages of Shiri Bibas and her children Kfir and Ariel

  18. Returning residents sit at a damaged site, as Israeli troops withdrew from most of south Lebanon, in the southern Lebanese village of Kfar Kila, Lebanon,

  19. Lindsay Foreman and Craig Foreman smile as they pose together for a selfie picture. Behind them is a swimming pool. She is wearing a red top and him a lilac T-shirt.

  20. Alessandra Morelli is standing between two other women. All three women are wearing headscarfs. They are standing in front of a large pile of wood that appears to be being used in construction. There is a a cream building behind them.

  21. US Secretary of State Marco Rubio shakes hands with Saudi Arabia's Deputy Minister for Protocol Affairs Abdulmajeed Al-Smari at King Khalid International Airport, in Riyadh

  22. A female visitor views a painting by American abstract expressionist painter Jackson Pollock

  23. Marco Rubio (left) shakes hands with Benjamin Netanyahu in front of US and Israeli flags.

  24. Eleven-year-old Zakaria