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  1. A huge ball of flame and black smoke fills the shot, as an air strike hits an urban centre in Gaza City.

  2. A man with a boy on his shoulders.

  3. Relatives carry the covered bodies of Palestinian children Saker Sukar, 3, and Layan Sukar, 4, in the grounds of al-Shifa hospital, Gaza City (23 September 2025)

  4. A man and woman smile on holiday. The woman has shoulder length blonde hair and is wearing a red top, the man has short brown hair, stubble and a lilac t-shirt. There is a pool behind them.

  5. Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakisis wearing a suit and sitting down, looking at a cellphone he holds in his right hand

  6. Young man - Abdullah - looking straight at the camera. He has short dark hair.

  7. President of Iraq sits down for interview with BBC's Tom Bateman

  8. Manar sits on an orange chair with a laptop on her lap. She is looking out into the distance and wearing a dark blue jacket. In the background are buildings falling apart and with roofs off and various bits of rubble.

  9. A woman with ginger hair and a fringe wearing a pink blouse and clear rounded glasses.

  10. Zelensky at podium

  11. An Israeli flag is planted into the ground, in a barren, hilly landscape in the occupied West Bank

  12. British-Egyptian activist Alaa Abdel Fattah hugs his mother and sister. The two women grin widely.

  13. James Landale and Caitriona Perry stood in front of flags outside the UN assembly building

  14. Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan (L) and French President Emmanuel Macron (R) gesture during the High-level International Conference for Peaceful Settlement of the Question of Palestine and Implementation of the Two-State Solution at the UN headquarters in New York (22 September 2025)

  15. Palestinian women walk with their belongings, including children's toys, as they flee an Israeli military operation in Gaza City.

  16. A flag saying 'free speech' with another image or Nick to the side

  17. Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif meet in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, September 17, 2025. Saudi Press Agency/Handout via REUTERS THIS IMAGE HAS BEEN SUPPLIED BY A THIRD PARTY./File Photo

  18. French President Emmanuel Macron speaks during the High-Level International Conference for the Peaceful Settlement of the Question of Palestine

  19. qassam brigades seen in file photo

  20. Police wearing blue riot helmets clash with protesters in Milan's central station.

  21. File photo showing Egyptian activist Alaa Abdel Fattah at his come in Cairo on 17 May 2019

  22. Yvette Cooper, wearing a blue blazer, silver necklace and earrings, speaks during an interview with BBC News. A Union Jack is in the background

  23. Displaced Palestinians flee southward in the central Gaza Strip after Israeli forces ordered residents of Gaza City to evacuate to the south, September 21, 2025.

  24. Natalia Grishko's apartment, top right, badly damaged by the blast caused by the nearby impact of a Russian missile