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A boy holds buttercup flowers he picked in a field near Kibbutz Nir Yitzhak in southern Israel, just outside the Gaza Strip. Reuters -
A Palestinian man and his wife make lanterns for sale in preparation for the Muslim holy month of Ramadan,in the southern Gaza Strip. Reuters -
A member of the Palestinian Red Crescent checks a "health capsule" developed by a Palestinian entrepreneur to be used by the paramedical organisation and local hospitals to help isolate and transport people infected with the coronavirus in the West Bank city of Hebron. AFP -
A Palestinian man puts final touches on a cake shaped like an emoji with a microscopic view of the coronavirus, amid concerns about the spread of the disease, in a bakery in the southern Gaza Strip. Reuters -
People crowd a street a few hours ahead of curfew in Cairo, Egypt. AP -
A Libyan man stands at the site of shelling on the residential area of Arada in the capital Tripoli. AFP -
A US military vehicle, part of a convoy, advances in the town of Tal Tamr in the northeastern Syrian Hasakeh province, by the border with Turkey. AFP -
A man gestures as he stands under a halo seen around the sun following heavy rains in Sanaa, Yemen. EPA -
People wear face masks as they walk down the Istiklal avenue in Istanbul a day after Turkish President ordered a fresh lockdown next weekend. AFP -
Flamingo birds stand at the deserted Al Zawraa park closed due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic in Baghdad, Iraq. EPA -
A zoo keeper walks at the deserted Al Zawraa park closed due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic in Baghdad, Iraq. EPA -
A staff member works on data from patients for possible coronavirus infection at the National Institute of Hygiene, in Rabat, Morocco. EPA -
Employees from a disinfection service company wearing protective face masks and gloves sanitise the corridors of Benghazi Medical Centre following the outbreak of the coronavirus, in Benghazi, Libya. Reuters -
Cars cross under a road sign calling people to stay at home to contain the spread of the coronavirus on the Beirut-Damascus international highway, east of Beirut. AFP -
Sudanese medical laboratory students prepare sterilisers to combat the spread of the coronavirus in Khartoum. AFP
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