The Middle East Framed - regional photography for April 15, 2020

Take a look at some of the best images from around the Middle East and North Africa in the past 24 hours

A boy holds buttercup flowers he picked in a field near Kibbutz Nir Yitzhak in southern Israel, just outside the Gaza Strip. Reuters

A Palestinian man and his wife make lanterns for sale in preparation for the Muslim holy month of Ramadan,in the southern Gaza Strip. Reuters

A member of the Palestinian Red Crescent checks a "health capsule" developed by a Palestinian entrepreneur to be used by the paramedical organisation and local hospitals to help isolate and transport people infected with the coronavirus in the West Bank city of Hebron. AFP

A Palestinian man puts final touches on a cake shaped like an emoji with a microscopic view of the coronavirus, amid concerns about the spread of the disease, in a bakery in the southern Gaza Strip. Reuters

People crowd a street a few hours ahead of curfew in Cairo, Egypt. AP

A Libyan man stands at the site of shelling on the residential area of Arada in the capital Tripoli. AFP

A US military vehicle, part of a convoy, advances in the town of Tal Tamr in the northeastern Syrian Hasakeh province, by the border with Turkey. AFP

A man gestures as he stands under a halo seen around the sun following heavy rains in Sanaa, Yemen. EPA

People wear face masks as they walk down the Istiklal avenue in Istanbul a day after Turkish President ordered a fresh lockdown next weekend. AFP

Flamingo birds stand at the deserted Al Zawraa park closed due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic in Baghdad, Iraq. EPA

A zoo keeper walks at the deserted Al Zawraa park closed due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic in Baghdad, Iraq. EPA

A staff member works on data from patients for possible coronavirus infection at the National Institute of Hygiene, in Rabat, Morocco. EPA

Employees from a disinfection service company wearing protective face masks and gloves sanitise the corridors of Benghazi Medical Centre following the outbreak of the coronavirus, in Benghazi, Libya. Reuters

Cars cross under a road sign calling people to stay at home to contain the spread of the coronavirus on the Beirut-Damascus international highway, east of Beirut. AFP

Sudanese medical laboratory students prepare sterilisers to combat the spread of the coronavirus in Khartoum. AFP

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