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  1. (From left to right): Jared Kushner, US President Donald Trump's son-in-law, and US special envoy Steve Witkoff. Photo: 12 April 2026

  2. An image of Mojtaba Khamenei in the middle of a road where yellow and green taxis and motorcycles are parked, with a man wearing sunglasses, black trousers and a grey T-shirt holding a phone to his right ear.

  3. Top view of a man's head with a kippah embroidered with an Israel flag and a Palestinian flag

  4. The exterior of a grey and white building with two rows of external temporary fencing and also black and yellow traffic blocking posts

  5. Netanyahu, who has grey short hair and wears a black suit with a blue tie and has a badge of the Israeli flag on his lapel, speaks into a mic at a podium

  6. A woman holds her hand to her face in grief in the district of Tadamon in Damascus (file photo)

  7. BBC chief international correspondent, Lyse Doucet, wearing navy outfit

  8. Masked men in beige fatigues climb up a ladder on the side of a ship.

  9. Two people ride on a moped, while one holds a Hezbollah flag and holds two fingers in the air, on a street in Beirut in front of a huge pile of rubble where a building once stood, taken on Friday.

  10. A composite image showing a satellite image of the home of Joe Elias and his wife Diana in southern Lebanon which has been destroyed. On the right is a picture of Joe and Diana together. The BBC Verify logo is in the top left-hand corner and both images are surrounded by a blue border.

  11. Donald Trump, flanked by JD Vance, left, and Marco Rubio, discusses the ceasefire in the Oval Office

  12. Masked men climbing stairs

  13. A grey military helicopter hovers on top of a oil tanker, a soldier sliding down a rope towards the top deck as another uniformed soldier waits. The deck is lined with oil transportation equipment, including green pipes

  14. A screen capture from a video said to show the seizure of the container ships MSC Francesca and Epaminondas in the Strait of Hormuz

  15. Player wearing the Italy kit placed in front of the Iran national flag

  16. The exterior of a grey and white building with two rows of external temporary fencing and also black and yellow traffic blocking posts

  17. File photo showing Ahmed Shihab-Eldin at the Doha Film Festival 2025 in Doha, Qatar (24 November 2025). He has short brown hair and a short brown beard.

  18. A woman sifts through the rubble in her destroyed flat in Tehran, Iran. Photo: 15 March 2026

  19. Women mourn during the funeral of Palestinians killed in an Israeli strike in the town of Beit Lahia, at al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City (23 April 2026)

  20. Young women walking down a busy shopping street in Tehran

  21. Photo of Al Akhbar journalist Amal Khalil, wearing a press jacket and helmet, reporting near a destroyed bridge in Qasmiyeh.

  22. Ships are anchored near the shoreline on April 22, 2026 in Bandar Abbas, Iran. Bandar Abbas is a port city and the capital of Hormozgan Province, along the Persian Gulf and Strait of Hormuz.

  23. Three images of ships that have come under fire in the Strait of Hormuz