• Members of the Palestinian security forces stand guard outside the Legislative Council building in the occupied-West Bank town of Ramallah. AFP
    Members of the Palestinian security forces stand guard outside the Legislative Council building in the occupied-West Bank town of Ramallah. AFP
  • Hanna Nasir, head of the Palestinian Central Election Commission, gives a press conference in the West Bank city of Ramallah. AFP
    Hanna Nasir, head of the Palestinian Central Election Commission, gives a press conference in the West Bank city of Ramallah. AFP
  • Palestinian medical staff in the newly opened Red Crescent Hospital in the occupied-West Bank city of Nablus. AFP
    Palestinian medical staff in the newly opened Red Crescent Hospital in the occupied-West Bank city of Nablus. AFP
  • Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh talks to medical staff after the opening of Al-Hilal Hospital in the west bank city of Nablus. EPA
    Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh talks to medical staff after the opening of Al-Hilal Hospital in the west bank city of Nablus. EPA
  • Mohammed Mohsen works in his antiques shop in central Baghdad, Iraq. AP Photo
    Mohammed Mohsen works in his antiques shop in central Baghdad, Iraq. AP Photo
  • General Amir Ali Hajizadeh, the head of the Revolutionary Guard's aerospace division, during the second day of a military drill in an unknown location in central Iran. EPA
    General Amir Ali Hajizadeh, the head of the Revolutionary Guard's aerospace division, during the second day of a military drill in an unknown location in central Iran. EPA
  • Missiles launch during the second day of military drill in an unknown location, central Iran. EPA
    Missiles launch during the second day of military drill in an unknown location, central Iran. EPA
  • Medical staff walk inside a newly opened Hospital in the west bank city of Nablus. EPA
    Medical staff walk inside a newly opened Hospital in the west bank city of Nablus. EPA
  • Environmentalists remove the carcass of a whale off the northern waters of Kuwait City. AFP
    Environmentalists remove the carcass of a whale off the northern waters of Kuwait City. AFP
  • A boy walks past Lebanese police patrol cars in Souk Sabra in the southern suburbs of the capital Beirut. AFP
    A boy walks past Lebanese police patrol cars in Souk Sabra in the southern suburbs of the capital Beirut. AFP
  • Kurdish women take part in a cycling marathon in the northeastern Syrian town of Amuda in Hasakeh province. AFP
    Kurdish women take part in a cycling marathon in the northeastern Syrian town of Amuda in Hasakeh province. AFP
  • A Sudanese Sufi Muslim performs a dance at a gathering outside the Hamad al-Nile shrine in Omdurman, the capital Khartoum's twin city. AFP
    A Sudanese Sufi Muslim performs a dance at a gathering outside the Hamad al-Nile shrine in Omdurman, the capital Khartoum's twin city. AFP
  • A Yemeni pupil goes to school, in Sanaa. EPA
    A Yemeni pupil goes to school, in Sanaa. EPA

The Middle East framed - regional photography for January 17, 2021

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