The Middle East Framed - regional photography for March 12, 2019

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

A fighter with the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) uses a binocular in a position in the eastern Syrian province of Deir Ezzor outside ISIS's embattled holdout of Baghouz. AFP

Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and Deputy Supreme Commander of the UAE Armed Forces (right), receives King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa, King of Bahrain (left), during a Sea Palace barza. Ministry of Presidential Affairs

Yemeni fighters from the Popular Resistance Committees, supporting forces loyal to Yemen's Saudi-backed government, take part in a graduation ceremony in the country's third city Taez. AFP

Lebanese music composer Jad Rahbani (left) and UNICEF Regional Chief of Communications, Middle East and North Africa Juliette Touma (right) listen to UNICEF Regional Director for the Middle East and North Africa Geert Cappelaere speaking during a press conference to mark 8th anniversary of the Syrian war, in Beirut, Lebanon. EPA

A man is silhouetted through an Algerian flag as he celebrates with others after Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika announced that he is delaying the April 18 election and won't seek another term, in Algiers, Algeria. Bouteflika bowed to unprecedented public protests Monday and promised not to seek a fifth term after 20 years in power. AP

Activists from the Alternative Movement for Individual Freedoms (MALI) replace the names of streets with that of famous Moroccan women. AFP

Students demonstrating in front of the Ministry of Health in Tunis, after a dozen newborn babies died as a result of nosocomial (hospital-acquired) infection. A dozen newborn babies whose deaths at a Tunisian state hospital sparked public outrage are believed to have been killed by an infection acquired in the clinic, the acting health minister said. AFP

Men smoke waterpipes (shisha or hookah) as they sit at the premises of the first traditional Turkish bath (Hammam) opening in the occupied Palestinian West Bank city of Hebron. Aziz Hijazi, the venue's 35-year-old Palestinian founder, returned from Turkey to open a traditional men-only bathhouse in Hebron's old city with the aim of bringing in tourists and providing relaxation for its Palestinian residents. AFP

An Israeli soldier argues with Palestinians as an Israeli army bulldozer closes roads leading to Palestinian villages near the West Bank city of Yatta, south of Hebron. According to local media sources, Israeli troops raided the West Bank city of Yatta and blocked several roads in the area. EPA

Palestinian fishermen mend a fishing-net as they sit along the sandy beach at Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip. AFP

Hagia Sophia or Ayasofya, the Byzantine-era monument which is now a museum, is seen during a sunset in Istanbul, Turkey

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