• A Palestinian girl plays on the beach in Gaza City after sunset. Mohammed Salem / Reuters
    A Palestinian girl plays on the beach in Gaza City after sunset. Mohammed Salem / Reuters
  • A Palestinian woman makes handmade yoghurt during the yearly yoghurt-making season, near the West Bank city of Hebron. Ammar Awad / Reuters
    A Palestinian woman makes handmade yoghurt during the yearly yoghurt-making season, near the West Bank city of Hebron. Ammar Awad / Reuters
  • A protestor uses a sling shot to throw a stone towards members of the Israeli security forces following a demonstration against the expropriation of Palestinian land by Israel in the village of Kfar Qaddum. Jaafar Ashtiyeh / AFP
    A protestor uses a sling shot to throw a stone towards members of the Israeli security forces following a demonstration against the expropriation of Palestinian land by Israel in the village of Kfar Qaddum. Jaafar Ashtiyeh / AFP
  • Jordanians carry banners and pictures of executed Jordanian pilot Muath al-Kassasbeh while shouting slogans against the group calling themselves the Islamic State, during a march after noon prayer in downtown Amman, Jordan. Jamal Nasrallah / EPA
    Jordanians carry banners and pictures of executed Jordanian pilot Muath al-Kassasbeh while shouting slogans against the group calling themselves the Islamic State, during a march after noon prayer in downtown Amman, Jordan. Jamal Nasrallah / EPA
  • A girl stands in a damaged building after what activists said were air strikes by forces loyal to Syria's President Bashar al-Assad in the Douma neighborhood of Damascus. Amer Almohibany / Reuters
    A girl stands in a damaged building after what activists said were air strikes by forces loyal to Syria's President Bashar al-Assad in the Douma neighborhood of Damascus. Amer Almohibany / Reuters
  • A relative of one of the children killed in the Taliban attack on the Army Public School, reacts during a protest against delays in the investigation in Peshawar, Pakistan. A Majeed / AFP
    A relative of one of the children killed in the Taliban attack on the Army Public School, reacts during a protest against delays in the investigation in Peshawar, Pakistan. A Majeed / AFP
  • A protester faces riot police in the southeastern town of Ben Guerdane, Tunisia. Fethi Nasri / AFP
    A protester faces riot police in the southeastern town of Ben Guerdane, Tunisia. Fethi Nasri / AFP
  • Police and soccer fans are seen through barbed wire as fans attempt to enter a stadium to watch a match, on the outskirts of Cairo, Egypt. Al Youm Al Saabi / Reuters
    Police and soccer fans are seen through barbed wire as fans attempt to enter a stadium to watch a match, on the outskirts of Cairo, Egypt. Al Youm Al Saabi / Reuters
  • Yemeni schoolgirls attend a class, two days after the Shiite Huthi militia seized power, dissolving government and parliament in Yemen. Mohammed Huwais / AFP
    Yemeni schoolgirls attend a class, two days after the Shiite Huthi militia seized power, dissolving government and parliament in Yemen. Mohammed Huwais / AFP
  • Muhammad Shuhadeh, a 76 year old Palestinian, sits in his gym in the West Bank City of Jenin. Shuhadeh, a former boxing champion in the 1980s, says he was the first to open a gym in the Palestinian territories 50 years ago. Alaa Badarneh / EPA
    Muhammad Shuhadeh, a 76 year old Palestinian, sits in his gym in the West Bank City of Jenin. Shuhadeh, a former boxing champion in the 1980s, says he was the first to open a gym in the Palestinian territories 50 years ago. Alaa Badarneh / EPA
  • A Pakistani girl waits for food donations at a distribution center in a shrine in Islamabad, Pakistan. Muhammed Muheisen / AP Photo
    A Pakistani girl waits for food donations at a distribution center in a shrine in Islamabad, Pakistan. Muhammed Muheisen / AP Photo
  • A Palestinian boy plays with a donkey in Biet Lahiya, in the northern Gaza Strip. Mohammed Salem / Reuters
    A Palestinian boy plays with a donkey in Biet Lahiya, in the northern Gaza Strip. Mohammed Salem / Reuters
  • A young girl collects drinking water for her family at a slum on the outskirts of Islamabad, Pakistan. Faisal Mahmood / Reuters
    A young girl collects drinking water for her family at a slum on the outskirts of Islamabad, Pakistan. Faisal Mahmood / Reuters
  • A Palestinian boy pushes his bicycle as members of Palestinian security forces loyal to Hamas march on a street in Gaza City. Mohammed Salem / Reuters
    A Palestinian boy pushes his bicycle as members of Palestinian security forces loyal to Hamas march on a street in Gaza City. Mohammed Salem / Reuters

Region in focus: February 11, 2015


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A selection of the best images from around the Gulf and across the Middle East this past week.