The best images of the last seven days from around the Gulf and across the Middle East.
Updated: June 06, 2014, 12:00 AM
Region in focus - June 6, 2014
Disabled Palestinian girls play a game of sitting volleyball during a training session organized by General Union of Disabled Palestinians, in Deir El-Balah in the central Gaza Strip. Suhaib Salem / Reuters
Two Palestinian brothers Mamud, 10, left, and Wassem, 8, Reasha, right, enjoy their time in the Gaza beach during a hot weather in the west of Gaza City. Mohammed Saber / EPA
An Iranian man holds a cloth with a photo of Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, while listening to Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani delivering a speech on the eve of the 25th anniversary of the death of Islamic revolutionary leader Khomeini, at Khomeini’s mausoleum in a suburb of Tehran. Atta Kenare / AFP
Egyptians hold balloons bearing portraits of ex-army chief Abdel Fattah al-Sisi as they celebrate in front of the presidential palace of Ethadya in the capital Cairo. Mahmoud Khaled / AFP
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani makes an address in front of portraits of the supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, left, and Ayatollah Khomeini, the founder of the Islamic Republic during a ceremony marking his 25th death anniversary at his shrine just outside Tehran. Vahid Salemi / AP Photo
Israeli soldiers stand guard in front of a section of the controversial Israeli barrier during a protest by Palestinians in solidarity with prisoners on hunger strike, at Qalandia checkpoint near the West Bank city of Ramallah. Mohamad Torokman / Reuters
Supporters of Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi, the nation’s former military chief, wave national flags during a celebrations at Tahrir Square in Cairo, Egypt. Amr Nabil / AP Photo
A car is set ablaze during fighting between Islamist militias and forces loyal to a retired general Khalifa Haftar, in Benghazi, Libya. Maher Alawani / EPA
Free Syrian Army fighters participate in a training in a military camp in southern Idlib countryside. Khalil Ashawi / Reuters
A woman walks through a flooded quay on June 2, 2014, at Uskudar district of Istanbul during a rainy day. AFP PHOTO / BULENT KILIC
A man protects a woman as they face a police officer dispersing protesters who gathered on the central Istoklal avenue near Taksim square in Istanbul as the police blocked access to the square during the one year anniversary of the Gezi park and Taksim square demonstrations. Bulent Kilic / AFP
Injured protesters lie on the ground as Turkish riot police officers fire tear gas to disperse demonstrators gathered on the central Istoklal avenue near Taksim square in Istanbul. Bulent Kilic / AFP
Palestinian children take part in a summer camp organized by Hamas. Mohammed Abed / AFP
A man carries a young girl who was injured in a reported barrel-bomb attack by government forces in Kallaseh district in the northern city of Aleppo. Baraa Al-Halabi / AFP
Palestinian Bedouin women care of their sheep on a hot day, south of Gaza City. Mohammed Abed / AFP