• The mother of two Palestinian fishermen Hassan and Mahmoud Al Zazoua reacts during their funeral after their bodies were returned from Egypt, in the central Gaza Strip. Reuters
    The mother of two Palestinian fishermen Hassan and Mahmoud Al Zazoua reacts during their funeral after their bodies were returned from Egypt, in the central Gaza Strip. Reuters
  • A Palestinian boy, mask-clad, waits before crossing to the Egyptian side of Rafah border crossing in the southern Gaza Strip. AFP
    A Palestinian boy, mask-clad, waits before crossing to the Egyptian side of Rafah border crossing in the southern Gaza Strip. AFP
  • Anti-government protesters block a road with waste containers during a protest to demand a change of the sectarian system and finding solutions to the daily-living and economic crisis in Beirut, Lebanon. EPA
    Anti-government protesters block a road with waste containers during a protest to demand a change of the sectarian system and finding solutions to the daily-living and economic crisis in Beirut, Lebanon. EPA
  • A Lebanese army soldier stands on guard by a tracked-vehicle, near a scooter that was used by armed assailants in an overnight attack that killed other army soldiers, north of Lebanon's northern city of Tripoli. Two army soldiers were killed by "terrorists" overnight in northern Lebanon, the army said. "Terrorists in a car opened fire on the guards of an army post in the locality of Arman-Minyeh... Two soldiers were killed, in addition to one terrorist," the army said in a statement. The incident comes amid an ongoing operation to locate a cell involved in the recent killing of four soldiers and three other people. AFP
    A Lebanese army soldier stands on guard by a tracked-vehicle, near a scooter that was used by armed assailants in an overnight attack that killed other army soldiers, north of Lebanon's northern city of Tripoli. Two army soldiers were killed by "terrorists" overnight in northern Lebanon, the army said. "Terrorists in a car opened fire on the guards of an army post in the locality of Arman-Minyeh... Two soldiers were killed, in addition to one terrorist," the army said in a statement. The incident comes amid an ongoing operation to locate a cell involved in the recent killing of four soldiers and three other people. AFP
  • Iran Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, right, and his Iraqi counterpart Fuad Hussein talk while posing for media prior to their meeting in Tehran, Iran. AP
    Iran Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, right, and his Iraqi counterpart Fuad Hussein talk while posing for media prior to their meeting in Tehran, Iran. AP
  • Iran President Hassan Rouhani, right, meets Iraqi Foreign Minister Fuad Hussein, left, in Tehran, Iran. An unidentified interpreter takes notes. AP
    Iran President Hassan Rouhani, right, meets Iraqi Foreign Minister Fuad Hussein, left, in Tehran, Iran. An unidentified interpreter takes notes. AP
  • Head of the Houthi prisoner exchange committee Abdulkader al-Murtada shakes hands with Head of the Yemeni government delegation Hadi Haig between ICRC Director for the Near and Middle East Fabrizio Carboni (left) and UN Special Envoy for Yemen Martin Griffiths at the end of a week-long meeting on a Yemen prisoner exchange agreement in Glion, western Switzerland. AFP
    Head of the Houthi prisoner exchange committee Abdulkader al-Murtada shakes hands with Head of the Yemeni government delegation Hadi Haig between ICRC Director for the Near and Middle East Fabrizio Carboni (left) and UN Special Envoy for Yemen Martin Griffiths at the end of a week-long meeting on a Yemen prisoner exchange agreement in Glion, western Switzerland. AFP
  • Martin Griffiths, United Nations Special Envoy for Yemen, and Fabrizio Carboni, Regional Director for the Near and Middle East of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), attend the closing plenary of the fourth meeting of the Supervisory Committee on the Implementation of the Prisoners' Exchange Agreement in Yemen, in Glion, Switzerland. Reuters
    Martin Griffiths, United Nations Special Envoy for Yemen, and Fabrizio Carboni, Regional Director for the Near and Middle East of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), attend the closing plenary of the fourth meeting of the Supervisory Committee on the Implementation of the Prisoners' Exchange Agreement in Yemen, in Glion, Switzerland. Reuters
  • Tourists visit the village of Sidi Bou Said, an attractive tourist destination near Tunis, Tunisia. Habib Ammar, Minister of Tourism, indicated that during the first nine months of 2020 the income from tourism has fallen by 60 per cent and that this decline can reach 70 per cent by the end of 2020. EPA
    Tourists visit the village of Sidi Bou Said, an attractive tourist destination near Tunis, Tunisia. Habib Ammar, Minister of Tourism, indicated that during the first nine months of 2020 the income from tourism has fallen by 60 per cent and that this decline can reach 70 per cent by the end of 2020. EPA
  • People go shopping at the old city in Tunis, Tunisia. EPA
    People go shopping at the old city in Tunis, Tunisia. EPA

The Middle East Framed - regional photography for September 27, 2020

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September 27, 2020

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