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    Netanyahu in a suit and red tie

  2. Israeli soldiers stand on top of a tank near the Gaza perimeter fence during a ceasefire with Hamas, in northern Israel (11 February 2025)

  3. A man looks across a landscape of damaged buildings from a window in Gaza

  4. A Jordanian man reads a local newspaper in the capital Amman, April 2021

  5. Houthi forces travel on a pick-up truck while on patrol in Sanaa, Yemen (25 January 2025)

  6. A bearded man waves an Islamic State black flag from the cockpit of a plane

  7. File photo of Shlomo Mansour

  8. Eitan and Yair Horn

  9. A composite image of Jordan's King Abdullah II bin al-Hussein and US president Donald Trump

  10. A masked Hamas fighter with Israeli hostage Eli Sharabi on a stage before he was handed over to a Red Cross team in Deir el-Balah

  11. Eden Knight with bobbed dark hair, brown eyes, red lipstick and nose ring, wearing a black and white striped top. She has one hand behind her head, and is smiling up at the camera.

  12. People in Tel Aviv holding placards with images of Israeli hostages (08/02/25)

  13. A human rights activist welcomes diplomats with posters criticising the imprisonment of Salma al-Shehab, outside a hotel in The Hague, the Netherlands (22 September 2022)

  14. Laila Soueif, an elderly woman, is supported by two people either side of her as she gives a statement to the members of media outside the gates of Downing Street.

  15. Flamingos seen in the crate.

  16. Displaced Palestinians make their way from Nuseirat refugee camp to Gaza City a day after the withdrawal of Israeli forces, during a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas (10 February 2025)

  17. Palestinian bookseller Mahmoud Muna is escorted by Israeli police into court (10/02/25)

  18. Safaa, a 14-year old girl from Sudan

  19. Palestinians wait to cross through a checkpoint run by US and Egyptian security contractors after Israeli forces withdrew from the Netzarim Corridor near Gaza City, 9 February 2025

  20. Eli Sharabi stood between two Hamas soldiers looking thin

  21. Thai hostage Pongsak Thaenna (L), who was taken in the attack led by the Palestinian militant group Hamas on 07 October 2023, is embraced by his father (C) next to his younger brother (R)

  22. Ohad Ben-Ami in a brown sweatshirt, standing between two Hamas fighters holding guns and with black balaclavas covering their faces.

  23. Eli Sharabi, Or Levy, Ohad Ben Ami after being released

  24. A woman cries as Palestinian prisoners are greeted after being released from an Israeli jail, as part of a hostages-prisoners swap and a ceasefire deal in Gaza between Hamas and Israel, in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, February 8, 2025