The Middle East Framed - regional photography for August 8, 2019

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

A worker sits on a truck next to onions collected during an harvest in a farm, in the Polatli district of Ankara. AFP

Muslim pilgrims perform Tawaf (circling) around the Kaaba inside the al-Haram al-Sharif mosque, in preparation of the start of the Hajj 2019 pilgrimage, at Makkah, Saudi Arabia. EPA

Mulism pilgrims perform prayers around the Kaaba, Islam's holiest shrine, at the Grand Mosque in Saudi Arabia's holy city of Makkah. AFP

Saudi women ride horses during the Souk Okaz Festival in the Saudi city of Taif. AFP

A Saudi woman rides a horse during the Souk Okaz Festival in the Saudi city of Taif. AFP

An Iraqi sheep vendor displays sheep for sale ahead of the Eid Al Adha festival at a livestock market in Baghdad, Iraq. EPA

An Iraqi sheep vendor displays sheep for sale ahead of the Eid Al Adha festival at a livestock market in Baghdad, Iraq. EPA

A fisherman uses his donkey to go to sea to catch fish after sea dried off due to land reclamation in Budaiya west of Manama, Bahrain. Reuters

Fishing boats are left abandoned as the sea dries off due to land reclamation in Budaiya west of Manama, Bahrain. Reuters

The artist Eid Al Salwaawi paints murals about the holy Kaaba and the rituals of the Hajj pilgrimage to Makkah, in Cairo, Egypt. Reuters

The artist Eid Al Salwaawi paints murals about the holy Kaaba and the rituals of the Hajj pilgrimage to Makkah, in Cairo, Egypt. Reuters

Palestinians work on the preservation of a Byzantine period mosaic near the Jebaliya refugee camp, northern Gaza Strip. AP

Palestinians work on a 4th century AD St Hilarion monastery archaeological site in central Gaza Strip. AP

Syrian children pose for a photograph with sheep at the Atmah camp in the northwestern Idlib province. AFP

A Syrian child holds a sheep at the Atmah camp in the northwestern Idlib province. AFP

A fighter from the former al-Qaeda Syrian affiliate Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) fires an anti-aircraft gun mounted on a pickup truck in Syria's southern Idlib province. AFP

A Palestinian boy rides a bicycle past an Israeli border policeman during a raid after the Israeli military said an Israeli soldier was found stabbed to death near a Jewish settlement, in Beit Fajjar in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. Reuters

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