The Middle East framed - regional photography for April 18, 2020

We bring you the best pictures from the Middle East and North Africa

A Palestinian mother entertains her children with makeshift masks made of cabbage as she cooks in Beit Lahia in the northern Gaza Strip. AFP

A Palestinian youth rides a horse along a beach during sunset in Gaza City. Reuters

Indian nationals are pictured outside a school that was turned into a centre to receive residency violators wishing to take advantage of an amnesty in Kuwait City. AFP

A man carries bread on wooden racks to be sold to customers in Cairo, Egypt. Reuters

Expatriated workers have their temperatures checked while carrying out road project development in Aali village south of the Bahraini capital Manama. AFP

A member of the Iraqi civil defence sprays a bridge during the sanitisation of the Tweirij district between Hilla and the southern Iraqi shrine city of Karbala. AFP

Ambulances are lined up in the middle of the southern Lebanese city of Tyre, Lebanon. EPA

A Palestinian man demonstrates his street workout skills on a beach in Gaza. Reuters

Backdropped by Istanbul's iconic Galata Tower a woman walks home walks in Istanbul. AP Photo

A bishop swings an incense container by the epitaphios during the Holy Saturday Matins at the Greek Orthodox Church of Saint Savvas in the old walled city of the Cypriot capital Nicosia. AFP

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