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  1. Sir Terry Waite looks directly at the camera. He is wearing a grey suit jacket and white shirt. He has white hair and a short beard.

  2. A building at Evin prison is shown damaged. A three-storey white building is seen standing, its windows blown out by an explosion. Extensive rubble is seen in fron tof the building, with piles of concrete and metal shown. A tree branch can be seen at the edge of the photograph.

  3. Nick Robinson speaking in the Today programme studio

  4. White plastic sheets cover bodies in the carpark of a hospital in Suweida. There is debris of chairs and hospital beds scattered across the ground too

  5. The body of 13-year-old Abdul Hamid al-Ghalban, who died as a result of malnutrition, is carried in a white shroud before his funeral, at Nasser hospital in Khan Younis, southern Gaza (22 July 2025)

  6. The Today programme logo

  7. Many women hold out bowls and buckets for aid, some using the empty buckets to shake their faces from the sun.

  8. An Israeli F-35 jet imposed over the BBC Verify branding.

  9. David Lammy wears a dark blue suit jacket, a white shirt and a yellow tie as he looks away from the camera in front of an open doorway

  10. Jersey Chief Minister Lyndon Farnham sat wearing a black suit and tie with a white shirt sat in front of a microphone at a long table. The British-Irish Council logo can be seen on the screen behind him.

  11. Stephen Munyakho

  12. Festival-goers gather before the burnt main stage during its dismantling, as they attend the first day of the Tomorrowland electronic music festival, in Boom, northern Belgium on July 18, 2025

  13. Smoke rises over western Deir al-Balah, central Gaza (21 July 2025)

  14. A young man with a light machine gun resting on his knees sits on a pile of earth and rubble. He's looking away to the side, absent-mindedly.

  15. Palestinians carry food collected from a humanitarian aid distribution point in Beit Lahia, northern Gaza, on Sunday, July 20, 2025.

  16. David Lammy speaking in the Commons - 21 July 2025

  17. Jon Donnison stood next to men with face masks and guns

  18. Men ride on a motorised cart along Salah al-Din road in Deir al-Balah, as smoke billows in the background, in the central Gaza Strip (21 July 2025)

  19. Smoke rises during strikes amid the Israeli military operation in Deir Al-Balah, in central Gaza

  20. Three Palestinian women crying.

  21. Bedouin outside Suweida

  22. Arned Syrian security forces officers wearing green helmets and black masks, as well as protective vests, stand in a row in front of an emergency vehicle.

  23. Armed Bedouin fighters in Suweida province. Photo: 19 July 2025

  24. A large protest on the Royal Mile in Edinburgh with several people marching behind a large banner. Some are waving flags of Palestine and Iran. One person has a blue and white Scottish flag.