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  • A banksy grafitti of a person throwing a bouquet of flowers as if it were a grenade on a wall.
    A mural by the street artist Banksy in the town of Beit Sahour in the West Bank.
  • A family is pictured walking in front of a pickup truck that is stacked full of packages.
    Within days of the 3 October announcement that “all illegal” persons must leave Pakistan, thousands of Afghans started to cross into Afghanistan’s Torkham district, as this family did on 8 October.
  • This is a composite image using two photos. To the left is a panoramic view of the Gaza Port. On the right we see a panoramic view of Gaza from the top of a mountain/hill. The background is a crumpled black paper. Some burgundy red lines are around the two pictures.
    Left: Small fishing boats in the Port of Gaza in Gaza City; Right: A view of Gaza from what locals say is the highest point in the enclave.
  • Wael al-Dahdouh, Gaza's bureau chief for Al Jazeera, is pictured at the centre of a crowd wearing his press vest as he places his hand over the head of a child's body that is wrapped in a white cloth.
    An Israeli airstrike killed Gaza's bureau chief for Al Jazeera Wael al-Dahdouh's wife, son, daughter, and grandson on 25 October.
  •  A picture of Zalengei market after it was destroyed by shelling as a result of the ongoing conflict in Sudan.
    Zalengei market has been destroyed by shelling as a result of the ongoing conflict in Sudan. Residents from the western Sudanese town have been using letters to communicate with their friends and family due to a communications blackout.
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  • A man is laying on his side on a mattress that is laid on the ground. Behind him are school desks stacked over each other.
    A man in a makeshift shelter in Tyre, a district in southern Lebanon that is hosting thousands of people displaced by skirmishes between Hezbollah and Israel.
  • People displaced by five seasons of drought settle in an informal camp in Baidoa, central Somalia, in 2022.
    People displaced by five seasons of drought settle in an informal camp in Baidoa, central Somalia, in 2022.
  • People are sitting in a hall eating. There are two volunteers with blue vests carrying food.
    UNRWA aid workers hand out breakfast at a centre in the city of Saida housing refugees who have fled violence in Ein el-Hilweh.
  • This is a map of Armenia and Azerbaijan. There are three highlighted regions. In orange: Nagorno-Karabakh. In burgundy red: Nakhichevan autonomous region. In green: The Syunik province and within it there are four locator dots: Goris, Kornidzor, Yerevan, Baku and Stepanakert.
  • People sit inside a medial tent.
    In Kornidzor, Armenia, close to the border with Azerbaijan, the ICRC set up tents to welcome and register refugees coming by car and bus from Nagorno-Karabakh in late September and early October.
  • Two women sit with bags of duvets near them.
    Refugees from Nagorno-Karabakh gathered in the main square of Goris in late September and early October, waiting for relatives, direction, or a place to go.
  • What's Unsaid podcast teaser picture with a portrait photo in black and white of Palestinian-American writer and journalist Mariam Barghouti over a radial gradient background. The color at the center is a purplish blue and the color outside is green. On the top right, a bit skewed to the right we see the title of the podcast: What’s Unsaid.
  • A map of Afghanistan. The province of Herat is highlighted in light burgundy. There are two locator dots, one in Kabul and another in Zinda Jan.
  • This is a cartoon showing rubble from the destruction that resulted in the aftermath of the bombing of Gaza. Dark smoke emerges from the rubble. On the top left we see a text that says: "Meanwhile in Gaza". At the bottom left we see a picket sign that reads: Humanitarianism
    Israel-Gaza coverage has been laced with the word ‘humanitarian’. And that may lead to moral obfuscation rather than clarity.
  • Emergency medical staff are around an ambulance. At the center a medical professional is carrying out a young child out of the ambulance.
    Emergency medical crews treat survivors of the 17 October bombing of the al-Ahli Hospital in Gaza City.
  • Composite image for the Rethinking Humanitarianism podcast. The background is a carrot orange color. On the top right is the title: "Rethinking Humanitarianism Podcast". ON the bottom left is a white box showing the podcast guests: Hajooj Kuka, external communications officer for the Khartoum State Emergency Response Rooms;  Francesco Bonanome, humanitarian affairs officer with the UN OCHA in black and white.
  • Sukhdev Vihar residents protests against the Okhla waste-to-energy plant.
    Sukhdev Vihar residents protest against the Okhla waste-to-energy plant in March 2019.
  • A view of the smokestack of the Okhla waste-to-energy plant.
    A view of the smokestack of the Okhla waste-to-energy plant.
  • This is a map showing the southern border between Chad and Sudan. There are locator dots in the Chadian cities of Abéché and Adré. There are also locator dots in El Geneina and Nyala. Areas of conflict are highlighted with an explosion symbol. And areas of newly arrived refugees alongside with population movement are signalled with arrows and orange circles.
    Data from UNHCR map from 22 September 2023.
  • Pictured are two camping tents on a sidewalk. On the left we see the shadows of people inside a tent. And on the right another tent covered by a blanket.
    With continued earthquakes, including several measuring above a magnitude of six, thousands of people have spent the last nine nights sleeping outside in tents across the city of Herat.
  • A view of several UNHCR white tents are seen. To the right side we see people sitting on the ground in front of some bags.
    The villages affected by the earthquakes were some of the least developed and most remote in Herat, residents say those houses that managed to survive the initial quakes were eventually destroyed in the subsequent quakes over the last eight days.
  • This is a composite image of two hands wearing surgical gloves. One is emerging from the top of the image and handing down a 10 euro bill. From the bottom there is another hand also wearing surgical gloves about to grab onto the bill. In the background we see a spiral line in burgundy red. Behind the bill is a burgundy square.
  • A group of people stand to the side of a dead body covered wrapped in a white cloth and laid on the ground on a white tarp.
  • This map shows the Gaza Strip. There is a burgundy line outlining the strip. There are locator dots on Eraz, Rafah and Kerem Shalom. The area of the Mediterranean Sea where the Israeli government has limited access is highlighted in red dots.
  • What's Unsaid podcast teaser picture with a portrait photo of Hisham Al-Omeisy over a radial gradient background. The color at the center is a purplish blue and the color outside is green. On the top right, a bit skewed to the right we see the title of the podcast: What’s Unsaid. At the left of Hisham is his name and occupation: conflict analyst
  • Pictured are two Afghan refugees carrying packaged, one carries a blue luggage over his shoulder and another a white sack. They are outside of a building to leave the Pakistani port city of Karachi and return to Afghanistan following the Pakistani government's decision to deport those illegally staying in the country, in Karachi, Pakistan on October 06, 2023.
    Afghan nationals pick up their belongings as they leave the Pakistani port city of Karachi to return to Afghanistan following the Pakistani government's decision threat to deport all immigrants lacking valid documentation, on 6 October 2023.
  • Pictured are clothes hanging between trees, some tents can be seen in the background.
    Refugees said there isn’t enough food at the Wedwiel Refugee Settlement, but that residents are supporting one another by sharing meals.
  • Pictured is the entrance to the newly established Wedwiel Refugee Settlement. We see people standing outside in front of the camp.
    The entrance to the newly established Wedwiel Refugee Settlement. In addition to the refugees, large numbers of South Sudanese who lived in Sudan have returned home in recent months.
  • At the center of this image is a white tent, other tents are in the background.
    South Sudan’s Wedwiel Refugee Settlement is hosting 9,000 Sudanese refugees, with most arriving from Nyala, the capital of South Darfur state.
  • This is a wide angle shot of destroyed buildings in Gaza.
    Following the 7 October assault by Palestinian militants that left hundreds of Israeli civilians dead, Israel has launched airstrikes accused of indiscriminately hitting civilian targets in Gaza, including these homes in the Beit Lahia area.
  • This is a Twitter thumbnail showing an Afghan nurse preparing a serum drops for a victim of an earthquake in a hospital in Herat, Afghanistan October 8, 2023.

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