Middle East

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  1. Palestinians wait for food at a charity kitchen in Gaza City, northern Gaza (28 July 2025)

  2. Keir Starmer standing at a lectern in downing street

  3. Irish soldier Seán Rooney, wearing camouflage clothes and a blue beret. He is holding a gun and standing in front of an armoured vehicle.

  4. Palestinian man and woman carry bags of aid. They look visibly upset.

  5. A Palestinian man carries a bag with aid supplies that entered Gaza, in Beit Lahia, northern Gaza (27 July 2025)

  6. Jeremy Bowen wearing a blue denim shirt, holding a black microphone

  7. Israeli human rights groups B'Tselem and Physicians for Human Rights-Israel hold a news conference in occupied East Jerusalem to release reports accusing Israel of genocide in Gaza (28 July 2025)

  8. Qatari 747-8 aircraft on the tarmac in West Palm Beach, Florida

  9. Keir Starmer, left, wears a dark suit and maroon tie as he shakes hands with Donald Trump, right, also wearing a dark suit and maroon tie - they're in front of a gold curtain with a US flag behind them, and Trump is looking down at their hands

  10. Helen Strudwick on the left with the base of an ancient Egyptian soul house. She is side on and only the top of her dark hair and her nose can be seen as she looks a the soul house on the right. She has stretched out her right hand towards the artefact. The base of the house is in lumpy light brown clay. On its base, towards its bottom side, can be seen light ridges of fingers.

  11. Aid drops seen from the sky in northern Gaza

  12. A man in a beige fleece stares solemnly into the camera

  13. A young Palestinian girl hangs over a wall, holding a metal bowl, while waiting for lentil soup distribution point in Gaza City in the northern Gaza Strip

  14. Palestinians react as they wait to receive food from a charity kitchen

  15. A Palestinian reacts as he waits to receive food from a charity kitchen

  16. A Palestinian woman carries a bag of food on her head in Rafah, Gaza. She is wearing a black outfit and black headscarf. Behind her is a boy and other people.

  17. A screen grab from footage posted by the Freedom Flotilla Coalition purportedly showing an armed Israeli soldier guarding activists with their hands up on board the Handala boat

  18. A smiling Julia Buckley with shoulder-length brown hair wears a black jacket and black and white printed top with a pin badge on her lapel of Labour's red rose

  19. The Times front page shows the headline "Gaza's suffering must stop, PM to tell Trump" as well as photographs of the British Lionesses, who are preparing for a match, and the Lions, who just beat Australia. The Observer's front page is devoted to a picture of Lionesses player Michelle Agyemang. She wears a black jacket with purple insignia, and listens to headphones. A bag is slung over one shoulder.

  20. Airmen in khaki uniform watch from the open rear of an airplane as supplies are dropped by parachute

  21. An Israeli soldier stands next to the parcels of humanitarian aid

  22. Mary Sheikh al-Eid's family is comforted after her body is brought to Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, southern Gaza (24 July 2025)

  23. A boy looks on as Palestinians gather to receive food from a charity kitchen, amid a hunger crisis.

  24. Two women, who are wearing black and have pained looks on their faces, stand at the front of a crowd and hold out pans at a charity kitchen in Nuseirat, Gaza