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    Pete Hegseth stands in front of the Pentagon logo

  2. Image shows Trump and Hegseth

  3. Two advertisement boards for rival political leaders in Israel, with Gadi Eisenkot and Benjamin Netanyahu's faces appearing prominently on billboards (26/10/26)

  4. A man in a suit walks toward a podium.

  5. A woman hangs clothing outside a displacement tent in Gaza City, Palestine, on November 8, 2026. Rainfall has flooded and damaged displacement tents across the Gaza Strip as winter approaches. Many displaced families remain vulnerable due to shortages of shelter materials, heating supplies and other humanitarian assistance.

  6. An image of empty refrigerator shelves in an Intermarché supermarket in France.

  7. Israeli troops and military vehicles operate in the Old City of Nablus, in the north of the occupied West Bank (8 November 2026)

  8. Donald Trump shown as he talks to press at a press conference in the White House

  9. Thomas Massie (left) and Pete Hegseth

  10. Palestinians gather at the scene of a deadly collapse of a sand embankment at a tent camp for displaced people near Deir al-Balah, central Gaza (9 November 2026)

  11. Hakeem Jeffires

  12. An exterior still from footage of the Aramco Tower in Riyadh appearing to show damage from an air strike

  13. A crowd of people gather around a derailed train after a collision in Egypt

  14. Derailed carriage in countryside

  15. A profile photo of Reza Zanganeh, who is wearing a black t-shirt and smiling

  16. A person carries a wounded child at a hospital

  17. Israeli opposition leader and former military chief, Gadi Eisenkot, looks on as he launches an election campaign for Yashar,

  18. An Iranian woman walks past a wall painting of Iranian revolutionary soldiers in Tehran, Iran, 25 February 2026

  19. A number of Palestinian men and women in traditional wedding dress clap to music.

  20. A man uses a bucket to try and clear muddly water from around his tent.

  21. Satellite image take above Iran, circling an area of what appears to be construction, in a BBC Verify branded border.

  22. A crowd of men and women waving US and Israeli flags, with a man in the centre wearing a shirt in the colours of the US flag, in Tel Aviv (09/10/25)

  23. A split image showing Iranian missiles on the tarmac of a base on the left and construction at a facility on the right. Construction vehicles can be seen in the image on the left and both are imposed over the BBC Verify branding.