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  1. Four people in the photo: on the right, a young man, with an older woman behind him. To the left, two younger girls are laughing, one of their faces obscured. There are branches and greenery in the background

  2. A man wearing a black t-shirt and trousers walks through the rubble of a destroyed building in Gaza City.

  3. Handout photo from the Israeli foreign ministry showing Swedish activist Greta Thunberg walking through an airport in Israel before being deported (6 October 2025)

  4. Splitscreen image of Yolande and Rushdi speaking

  5. John Swinney in a blue padded waterproof jacket standing outside the Scottish Parliament building, speaking into a microphone. He is surrounded by people, one of whom is holding an Israeli flag.

  6. Family members inspect the rubble of their former home following an air strike during an Israeli military operation in Gaza City

  7. A woman with blonde hair, draped in a blue and white Israeli flag, closes her eyes and bows her head, with one hand held over her mouth. In the other, she holds a flyer displaying a picture of a male Israeli hostage, along with his name - David Cunio - and age - 34 - printed in red, capital letters, in both English and Israeli. Other attendees are pictured out of focus in the background.

  8. A close up of the gold funeral mask of Pa-Sheri. There is a large crack across the cheek and around the nose of the mask. Bits of the plaster have flacked away around the cracks.

  9. Two Palestinian boys fill up water cans, as a woman drinks water in the background

  10. Profile picture of Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa

  11. Demonstrators carry flags and placards as families of hostages and their supporters protest ahead of the two-year anniversary of the deadly October 7, 2023, attack on Israel by Hamas, demanding the immediate release of all hostages and the end of the war in Gaza, in Jerusalem, October 4, 2025.

  12. Ehud (Udi) Goren shows to media a photo of his cousin of Tal Haimi z"l in the Europe Israel Press Association (EIPA) offices on January 14, 2025 in Brussels, Belgium.

  13. Police remove a protester taking part in a demonstration organised by Defend our Juries

  14. A boat from the Global Sumud Flotilla, intercepted by Israeli forces in the Mediterranean sea off the coast of Gaza, is escorted towards the southern Israeli port of Ashdod on 2 October. The shot of the boat is taken from a distance but small figures of people wearing orange life vests appear to be sitting at the front of the vessel, while others in dark clothing stand on the top deck.

  15. A woman child sit among grey rubble, pensively.

  16. Split screen of a woman in Gaza wearing a hijab and a man with a silver chain and beard in Israel.

  17. A protester looks at the camera as she chants a slogan. She is wearing a green top and is clapping her hands

  18. Trump and Netanyahu

  19. Pro-Palestinian protesters carry banners reading "Less Melon", in a reference to Italian Prime Minister Giorgio Meloni and "Free Palestine" during a nationwide strike called by the USB union to condemn the Israeli forces' interception of the Global Sumud Flotilla vessels aiming to reach Gaza and break Israel's naval blockade, in Bologna, Italy, October 3

  20. A Palestinian woman carries belongings as she walks amid debris at a United Nations school where displaced people were taking shelter, after it was hit in overnight Israeli strikes, amid an Israeli military operation, at Zeitoun neighbourhood in Gaza City, October 1

  21. People embrace near a fountain turned to a memorial in Tel Aviv for Israelis killed during and in the two years since the 2023 attacks by Palestinian militants, and those who remain hostages in Gaza, on the second anniversary of the attacks on October 7, 2025

  22. Portrait of Eli Sharabi in a black shirt with a yellow ribbon lapel pin, sitting in a room with largely neutral colours

  23. A close-up of a drawing of a stoneworker finishing a granite statue of a king. He is in profile and has a naked torso with his right up raised up holding a round tool or stone and reaching towards the top of the headdress of the statue he is working. From a painting in the tomb of Rekhmire, Qurna, Egypt, 1479 to 1425BC.

  24. U.S. President Donald J. Trump and Emir of Qatar Tamim bin Hamad al Thani sit at a table and lean in toward one another to speak