The Middle East Framed – regional photography for August 18, 2020

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

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  A Saudi farmer throws dates in the air during Unaizah Season for Dates, at Unaizah city in Al Qassim province, Saudi Arabia. Reuters

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  A girl is seen at the window of a house in the area of a pro-Syrian government checkpoint near the village Tal Dahab in the countryside of Qamishli in Syria's Kurdish-controlled northeastern Hasakeh province. AFP

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  Members of Morocco's interior ministry auxiliary forces patrol a neighbourhood to enforce the reimposed lockdown in the capital Rabat's district of Takadoum. AFP

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  A worker prepares coffee at a cafe in Benghazi, Libya. Reuters

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  A Palestinian man stands at a closed power generating facility in the middle of the Gaza Strip as Gaza's electricity authority announced that more service cuts would be implemented due to lack of fuel. AFP

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  Al Ahly player Yasser Mohamed, right, in action against Aswan player Hassan Tarek during the Egyptian Premier League football match between Al Ahly and Aswan, in Cairo, Egypt. EPA

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  Demonstrators gather after emergency services extinguished fire on tyres during a protest near the governor's residence in the southern city of Basra, to oppose assassinations and demand the resignation of top security officials in the southern Iraqi governorate. AFP

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  Zein El Aabidine holds a chicken in front of his home, in the aftermath of a massive explosion, in Beirut, Lebanon. Reuters

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  A statue of Lebanon's assassinated former prime minister Rafik Hariri is seen near the site of the suicide lorry bombing that killed him in 2005, in Beirut, Lebanon. Reuters

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