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  1. Helen McEntee - A woman with blonde, shoulder-length hair wears earrings and a white suit jacket. She is standing in front of a blank, neutral colour wall.

  2. A woman reacts after an Israeli air strike destroyed a multi-storey building in the southern Beirut suburb of Chiyah (21 October 2024)

  3. Dr Clare Frost

  4. Promo image

  5. A mosquito is seen on human skin. File photo

  6. People gather at the site of an Israeli strike in Beit Lahia, northern Gaza Strip. Photo: 20 October 2024

  7. A lone Palestinian drags a trolley along a path between debris from destroyed buildings showing the devastation caused by the ongoing Israel-Gaza conflict

  8. Israeli police guard on the site of a reported drone attack in the northern Israeli town of Caesarea. Photo: 19 October 2024

  9. A headshot of Yahya Sinwar, wearing a white dress shirt, sitting in a black leather desk chair and staring into the camera

  10. Smoke billows over southern Beirut after an Israeli strike on the Lebanese capital. Photo: 19 October 2024

  11. A selfie taken by Sha'aban al-Dalou showing him and his family. He is a young man of 19 in a blue t-shirt, standing in the foreground, with six relatives aged from childhood to middle age smiling behind him. Some of the children are making thumbs-up gestures.

  12. A wide shot of Jabalia, where a child stands on a road. On either side of the road is grey rubble.

  13. People cheer and hold placards as they celebrate the news of the death of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar, in Jerusalem. A man has a smiling young girl on his shoulders. People behind him wave smartphones and signs in the air.

  14. A rescuer in Lebanon, wearing a hard hat and high vis vest, has his hands on his hips and looks at an excavator at work on the rubble from a building hit by Israeli air strike

  15. Yahya Sinwar

  16. A person sitting in an armchair outlined in red in IDF video

  17. IDF soldiers near the scene of Sinwar's killing

  18. A woman walks past posters depicting Yahya Sinwar (left) in the Gaza Strip.

  19. Yahya Sinwar gestures as he speaks while looking away from camera, wearing a purple shirt with grey stubble and hair, with the Palestinian flag and Hamas logo in the background, during a press conference in Gaza City in May 2021

  20. Benjamin Netanyahu

  21. Yahya Sinwar in 2021

  22. BBC security correspondent Frank Gardner, in the BBC newsroom

  23. File photo showing displaced Palestinians flee the northern Gaza Strip (12 October 2024)

  24. Aid trucks in Gaza in June