The Middle East Framed - regional photography for April 19, 2020

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

The Great pyramids light-up with blue light and project the message "Stay Home" on the Giza plateau outside the Egyptian capital of Cairo. AFP

People walk past a damaged building depicting drawings alluding to the coronavirus and encouraging people to stay at home, in the rebel-held Idlib city, Syria. Reuters

Priests lead a crowdless Easter Sunday mass, during a nationwide lockdown to stem the spread of coronavirus, at the Prophet Elias Greek Orthodox Church in Syria's northern city of Aleppo. AFP

Lebanese Christian Orthodox worshippers light their candles with the 'Holy Fire' which arrived from Jerusalem, at the entrance to Saint George Cathedral in downtown Beirut during the Bright Saturday service held without praying due to the coronavirus pandemic, Beirut, Lebanon. EPA

Children play on their phones in Erbil, the capital of the northern Iraqi Kurdish autonomous region, amid a lockdown. AFP

An Iraqi Kurdish woman walks in an empty street in Erbil, the capital of the northern Iraqi Kurdish autonomous region, amid a lockdown to combat the spread of the coronavirus. AFP

Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I, left, the spiritual leader of the world's Orthodox Christians, leads the service for the Resurrection of Christ during Orthodox Easter Week services, held without worshippers to help contain the spread of the coronavirus at the Patriarchal Church of St George in Istanbul. AP

Yemeni children stand at a flooded stream of rainwater following heavy rains in Sana'a, Yemen. EPA

Vehicles drive through a flooded stream of rainwater following heavy rains in Sana'a, Yemen. EPA

Palestinian farmers work at their field near the West Bank city of Nablus. EPA

The northern Israeli town of Malkiya, on the border with Lebanon, shows Israeli soldiers monitoring the movement of Lebanese soldiers and police in the Lebanese village of Aitaroun. AFP

Deserted streets around the new mosque on Emionu square in Istanbul, as Turkish government announced a two-day curfew to prevent the spread of coronavirus. AFP

A Palestinian man, wearing personal protective equipment as a precaution against the coronavirus, prepares a crescent and star ornament in the West Bank city of Hebron, ahead of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. AFP

Workers, from the Kuwaiti Ministry of Public Works, pave a road near the capital Kuwait City, as the Ministry takes the opportunity to repair and repave roads during the curfew hours imposed by the coronavirus. AFP

Tunisian seamstresses make designer protective masks at the workshop of the Miss Anais haute couture brand in the capital Tunis, which donates 60 masks daily to staff at hospitals caring for Covid-19 patients. AFP

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