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  1. Officer in Serbia wearing a green uniform and a balaclava holding onto the machine gun.

  2. A composite image showing an AI-generated image claiming to show people queuing outside a polling booth in Israel, next to the BBC Verify logo.

  3. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu waves while addressing supporters at his Likud party's headquarters in Jerusalem (28 October 2026)

  4. Split screen of Benjamin Netanyahu above and Gadi Eisenkot below.

  5. A street sign points at billboards for Eisenkot and Netanyahu.

  6. Yolande Knell/Woman voting in Israel

  7. A woman wearing a headscarf puts a ballot paper in a ballot box in Israel's general election (27/1026)/

  8. Hugo Bachega

  9. Three women holding Israeli flags smile and celebrate in a conference room with blue lights and crowds.

  10. Composite image showing Benjamin Netanyahu (L) and Gadi Eisenkot (R) both waving

  11. Egyptian journalist Lina Attalah sits on a black leather chair. She has a red scarf around her neck, a grey top, cropped black hair, stud earrings and and a silver metal studd in her right nostril, a broad smile on her lips.

    • UK
    Court artist sketch of Mohmed Abdulkarim, 24, (left) and Nouman Essghir, 24. Abdulkarim sits in a wheelchair and wears a checked shirt and black cap. Essghir stands and wears a grey tracksuit.

  13. A young woman voting in Isreal. She is wearing a black and white striped top and a black headscarf and it putting her ballot slip into a blue box

  14. Three side-by-side portrait photographs separated by white vertical bars. The left image shows a woman with short brown hair speaking at a lectern man a microphone in an indoor event setting. The centre image shows a person with short white hair and a white beard wearing a dark suit jacket and white shirt outdoors against a pale sky. The right image shows a woman with long dark hair wearing a black coat, seated indoors in front of an ornate fireplace and framed artwork.

  15. A compilation picture showing Kate Nevens on the left, Lara Bird in the centre and Clive Lewis on the right.

  16. Ballon d’Or hosts Kate Scott and Thierry Henry, both dressed in black, stand in front of a screen showing a smiling picture of Christophe Gleizes. The number of days he has spent in prison is displayed on the screen in white and red.

  17. Gadi Eisenkot, in a dark blue suit, and wife Hannah, in a white shirt, put a blue voting slip into a blue ballot box.

  18. Woman casts her vote in Israel's elections

  19. Left, a shot of rubble and destroyed buildings in Gaza. Right, a man in a blue shirt and backpack walks through a street.

  20. Left, men carry flags of Israel. Right, a woman in a blue shirt walks in a street.

  21. Rubble sits atop a small brick wall and six stairs.

  22. Macklemore, who has short, blond hair and short, dark stubble, raises his hands in the air as he holds a microphone while performing on stage. He wears a green coat with fur-type material around the neck and cuffs.

  23. A military helicopter painted in beige camouflage with white patches flies above an Algerian flag, which has green and white halves and a red crescent and star in the centre.

  24. A split image showing Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu