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  1. Donald Trump (left) and Vladimir Putin

  2. Columbia University student Mahmoud Khalil talks to the press during the press briefing organized by Pro-Palestinian protesters who set up a new encampment at Columbia University's Morningside Heights campus on Friday evening, in New York City, United States on June 01, 2024.

  3. Benjamin Netanyahu looking straight down the camera, pointing with one finger. The flag of Israel is hanging behind him.

  4. Two children walking past rubble after an air strike in Gaza

  5. Two men, a woman and a child are sitting in the back of a white camper van. On top of the van are possessions such as clothes and sleeping bags, piled very high. The van is parked in front of a large pile of grey rubble and several buildings that have been damaged by strikes. Some have been completely destroyed. The BBC Verify logo is in the top left corner.

  6. A Palestinian woman shows anguish as she holds a baby, with a boy standing next to them, in Gaza City (18/03/25)

  7. A woman in a grey hijab stands with a child holding her hands out in dismay in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip March 18, 2025

  8. A man, Jon Donnison, at Sderot in Israel, with Israeli flags behind him and Gaza in the distance.

  9. Orange light from explosion seen over Gaza skyline

  10. A man wearing a woolly hat and a grey jumper stands amidst debris in Khan Younis in southern Gaza Strip

  11. A woman, with her arms stretched out, sits on top of a wagon carrying her belongings and young children through rubble

  12. Yemenis inspect rubble. Men wearing mostly brown stand among the concretes ruins

  13. A person inspects the damage at a cordoned off area, a day after US airstrikes targeted a nearby position, in Sana'a, Yemen, on 16 March 2025

  14. Sharone Lifschitz wears a black jumper and embraces her father, Oded Lifsthiz, who wears a hat and glasses

  15. Men stand amid rubble in front of a damaged building in Saada

  16. An elderly Palestinian man walks past a destroyed building in Gaza City

  17. A woman wearing black clothing looks distressed as she's helped by people around her

  18. Woman wearing a black headscarf and a light coloured coat holds up a passport-sized photo of her son

  19. A thermal imaging display of a missile heading towards a vehicle that the US and Iraq said contained an Islamic State leader

  20. The suitcase which is brown leather with faded stickers on it. It has two locks for its metal clasps. It is sitting on a wooden table with an old, reddish coloured book in front of it.

  21. Druze people in Majdal Shams welcome buses carrying a Druze delegation from Syria

  22. An Iranian woman without a mandatory headscarf, or hijab, walks in a street in Tehran, with another woman who is wearing a hijab.

  23. 2440 by 1373 pixels2440 x 1373 pixels Alternative description Iran's Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, addresses students in Tehran, Iran (12 March 2025)

  24. Dalaal Mahna gesturing with her hand while speaking and looking upset