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  1. An image showing a young man carrying an box of aid with the GHF logo emblazoned on it. He is wearing a dark shirt with Nike Air written on it. Several other people are walking alongside him, and the image is imposed over the BBC Verify branding and colours.

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  3. Sir Keir Starmer, dressed in a black suit jacket, white shirt, and green patterned tie, stands against a plain warm brown background.

  4. A Gazan mother holds her severely emaciated baby son

  5. A young girl looks distressed as she attempts to get food, surrounded by others. One person holds a bowl.

  6. A Palestinian woman walks past damaged buildings after an Israeli strike on the Bureij refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip. Photo: 23 July 2025

  7. Sir Keir Starmer and French President Emmanuel Macron

  8. People in Gaza holding bowls, waiting for food

  9. Protesters march holding aloft signs, one reads 'Stop the war!'

  10. A staff member guards the gate of the Iranian Consulate as a European delegation arrives in a car ahead of nuclear talks, in Istanbul, Turkey, 25 July 2025

  11. Georges Abdallah, a grey-haired 74-year-old with grey moustache and beard, sits in his prison cell in a red shirt

  12. Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas (left) and French President Emmanuel Macron during talks in Paris in July 2022

  13. Woman holding an apparently malnourished child as another one lies in a bed

  14. The photograph of a woman holding a famished-looking baby in her arms and looking down at the floor - the baby's face is turned away from the camera and his back is in view, with his spine and ribs visible due to starvation while wearing a black refuse bag as a nappy, in their tent in Gaza City on 21 July.

  15. Palestinians carrying pans gather to receive hot meals from a charity kitchen in Gaza City, northern Gaza (23 July 2025)

  16. Mohammed al-Qedra holds up his injured hand while lying on a bed at the UK-Med field hospital in al-Mawasi, southern Gaza

  17. Tayseer Naeem, an older man with a grey beard, holds a saucepan amidst a line of people behind a metal fence at a soup kitchen in Gaza.

  18. A man in his 60s stands by some patio doors. He is wearing a black T-shirt with white writing on and glasses.

  19. A Palestinian man carries a sack of flour.

  20. A woman holds a severely underweight child in a tent in Gaza

  21. A man and a woman smile. Behind them is a blurry swimming pool.

  22. A toddler in orange Spider-Man pyjamas sits on a bed crying

  23. Donald Trump looks into the distance, brows furrowed. He wears a white shirt and blue blazer.

  24. Four men, two in religious robes, walk along