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  1. A group of women comfort another woman in the middle of their group in Khan Yunis.

  2. Syrian Red Crescent rescuers stand next to the body of a victim of the recent clashes in Suweida province, at a hospital in Suweida city (17 July 2025)

  3. A general view of the International Criminal Court (ICC) building in The Hague, Netherlands on April 30, 2024.

  4. A health worker and other men walk in a hospital courtyard, past the bodies of victims of the recent clashes in Syria's southern city of Suweida on 17 July 2025

  5. An image showing damage to Rafah in Gaza following Israeli demolition. It is imposed over the BBC Verify logo.

  6. Armed Bedouin fighters ride motorbikes in southern Syria (17 July 2025)

  7. View of the roof of the Holy Family Church showing the damage after it was hit by an Israeli strike

  8. Father Gabriele Romanelli of the Church of the Holy Family receives medical attention after he was wounded in what the Latin Patriarchate called a "raid" on the church, at Al-Ahli Arab Hospital in Gaza City (17 July 2025)

  9. Police Scotland generic. Pic of a row of police officers

  10. The charred wreckage of the five-storey hypermarket are seen the morning after the fire in Kut, eastern Iraq

  11. BBC's Lina Sinjab reports from Damascus

  12. Syrian security forces patrol the southern city of Suweida on 17 July 2025

  13. Several large plumes of grey smoke rises from a group of buildings in Damascus, Syria. The buildings are surrounded by hills of dry, bare earth that are topped with trees.

  14. Druze men lifting their flags in the air, wearing white hats and black robes

  15. A view of a destroyed building, after powerful airstrikes shook Damascus on Wednesday, targeting the defense ministry, as Israel vowed to destroy Syrian government forces attacking Druze communities in southern Syria and demanded their withdrawal, in Damascus July 16, 2025

  16. Mike Huckabee, US ambassador to Israel

  17. A group of young children from GAA Palestine pose alongside two adults. The children are holding up their fingers in "peace" signs and three at the front are holding hurls. The two adults are also holding their fingers up in "peace" signs.

  18. Palestinians mourn people who were killed in an incident at the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation's aid distribution centre in Khan Younis, at Nasser hospital, southern Gaza (16 July 2025)

  19. Female news presenter looks shocked as en explosion occurs behind her

  20. Smoke rises as Syrian security forces personnel sit in the back of a pick-up truck while entering the predominantly Druze city of Suweida, Syria (15 July 2025)

  21. Hezbollah leader Sheikh Naim Qassem addresses supporters during Ashura celebrations in southern Beirut, Lebanon (6 July 2025)

  22. BBC Verify correspondent Merlyn Thomas with long dark hair at an office desk

  23. A picture of Nimisha Priya wearing gold jewellery, her hair tied back. She is wearing a beige-coloured Indian suit.

  24. A Palestinian boy inspects the site of an Israeli strike that killed 10 Palestinians, including six children, who were queueing at a water distribution point, in Nuseirat refugee camp, central Gaza (13 July 2025)