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Jeremy Bowen: Chances of peace in the Middle East

The BBC's International Editor reflects on the ongoing peace efforts
  • BBC Radio 4

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  1. Israel Defense Forces (IDF) handout photo showing its former Military Advocate General Major General Yifat Tomer-Yerushalmi

  2. Israeli soldiers Col Asaf Hamami (L), Staff Sgt Oz Daniel (C) and Capt Omer Neutra (R)

  3. Sahar Baruch (L) and Amiram Cooper (R)

  4. Evyatar David making the gesture of the heart

  5. A man with short dark hair carries a cardboard box of aid on his shoulder - a woman carrying a box can be seen in the background behind him

  6. Palestinian student Raghad Loai Mhanna concentrates as she works away on her laptop while sat in a white tent on a bench with a fan next to her, in Deir al-Balah on 19 October.

  7. Palestinians look out from their family's home following an Israeli air strike on a residential block in al-Shati refugee camp, northern Gaza (29 October 2025)

  8. Civil defense teams and Palestinians conduct search and rescue operations in collapsed buildings at the ez-Zeytun neighborhood after Israeli forces struck the central Gaza, on October 29, 2025 in southern Gaza City, Gaza.

  9. Jerry Greenfield and Ben Cohen (right), co-founders of Ben & Jerry’s, preparing to hand out free ice cream from a van in Philadelphia. Both men are seen scooping ice cream into cups. Cohen is pictured on the right, with a smile, as he scoops ice cream.

  10. Paul Givan, a man with blue eyes and short grey hair, looks towards the camera. He is mid-speech and is wearing a navy suit, a white shirt and a pink tie.

  11. Israeli soldiers and police salute as a convoy carrying the coffin that Hamas said contained the body of an Israeli hostage held in Gaza arrives at the National Centre of Forensic Medicine in Tel Aviv, Israel (28 October 2025)

  12. Released Israeli hostage Evyatar David gestures to crowds as he returns to his home in Kfar Saba, central Israel on 26 October 2025

  13. A close head and shoulders crop shows the King of Jordan speaking to the BBC with a Jordanian flag in the background while wearing suit and red tie.

  14. Equipment and personnel under the supervision of the Egyptian committee cross into the Gaza Strip through the Kerem Abu Salem crossing in Khan Yunis, southern Gaza Strip, 25 October 2025.

  15. Zain Tafesh, a small Palestinian boy, laying topless on his hospital bed

  16. Marco Rubio, wearing a dark blue suit, stands behind two microphones, with both hands open

  17. UN aid chief Tom Fletcher wearing a suit and sat in front of a microphone

  18. A parked white fire engine with fluorescent green stripes on it

  19. Workers carry bodies of unidentified Palestinians in body bags in Gaza. An ambulance is behind them.

  20. US Vice-President JD Vance speaks during a meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem (22 October 2025)

  21. A composite image showing an IDF digger surrounded by troops placing a yellow block. Imposed over the image is a map showing the proposed line and the BBC Verify logo.

  22. File photo showing a Palestinian man carrying an aid box provided by Unrwa, during a ceasefire between Hamas and Israel, in Khan Younis, southern Gaza (21 January 2025)

  23. Israeli gymnast Artem Dolgopyat