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  1. Donald Trump walking with Benjamin Netanyahu at White House

  2. Diya al-Adini and his sister Aya stand shoulder to shoulder as Aya holds up Diya's camera taking a photo

  3. The ruins of a Roman temple, pictured from afar on a sunny day

  4. Robbie Wallace with his motorbike and in a sandy area

  5. A contingent of Israeli police pictured at the scene of an attack in Beersheba, southern Israel on 6 October

  6. Damaged building following an Israeli strike targeted a branch of the Hezbollah-linked Al-Qard Al-Hassan financial association in the southern Lebanese city of Tyre (21 October 2024)

  7. Palestinian patients wait before an evacuation organized by the World Health Organization (WHO) at the European Hospital in Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip, (6 November 2024)

  8. A group of men search through rubble following a strike in the town of Al-Ain in the Baalbek region on Wednesday. In the foreground of the image is a child's bike.

  9. Design image of Trump and a coloured map of the world

  10. Yoav Gallant (L) stands beside Benjamin Netanyahu (R) during a ceremony an Israeli military base near Mitzpe Ramon, Israel (31 October 2024)

  11. File photo showing a demonstrator holding a picture of Iranian-German Jamshid Sharmahd (L) with his daughter Gazelle Sharmahd (R) during a rally calling for his release in front of the German foreign ministry in Berlin (31 July 2023)

  12. Two children walk arm in arm down a long, colourful corridor

  13. A person holds an Israeli flag as people demonstrate after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sacked his defense minister, Yoav Gallant, citing lack of trust, in Tel Aviv, Israel November 5, 2024.

  14. A man, Kamel Daoud, in black-framed glasses smiles as he stands in an open window, holding a white copy of his prize-winning book. He is wearing a dark blazer and a white shirt, with a cream-coloured scarf lightly looped around his neck.

  15. A young man is rescued from the rubble.

  16. A woman beats a drum as she marched with others who hold flags and placards bearing the faces of hostages

  17. Screengrab of a video showing an Iranian woman sitting in her underwear at the Science and Research Branch of Islamic Azad University in Tehran, Iran

  18. Mohammed lies on a hospital bed, his eyes looking directly at the camera. He has short hair and a brown beard, and his face shows signs of burn injuries around the forehead, eyes and cheeks.

  19. A small Palestinian child lies on a table and receives oral polio vaccine drops from a healthcare worker during a vaccination campaign at UNRWA headquarters in Deir al-Balah, central Gaza Strip, 14 October 2024

  20. Soldiers from the Lebanese army survey beach

  21. Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei speaks during a meeting with students in Tehran, Iran, 2 November 2024.

  22. There is a crowd of people who hold up posters of a young woman with sunglasses and brown hair who is smiling and making a peace sign with her left hand. The poster says "May her blood pave the way for freedom. Our friend Stay in Peace."

  23. A zoomed-in image shows a group of Gazan men, in Israeli detention and sitting outdoors against the backdrop of a destroyed building. A little girl is there, circled in red by the BBC in this image, for clarity.

  24. Smoke rises from the northern Israeli town of Metula following a Hezbollah rocket attack, as seen from the southern Lebanese area of Marjayoun (31 October 2024)