The Middle East framed - regional photography for January 17, 2021

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

Members of the Palestinian security forces stand guard outside the Legislative Council building in the occupied-West Bank town of Ramallah. AFP

Hanna Nasir, head of the Palestinian Central Election Commission, gives a press conference in the West Bank city of Ramallah. AFP

Palestinian medical staff in the newly opened Red Crescent Hospital in the occupied-West Bank city of Nablus. AFP

Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh talks to medical staff after the opening of Al-Hilal Hospital in the west bank city of Nablus. EPA

Mohammed Mohsen works in his antiques shop in central Baghdad, Iraq. AP Photo

General Amir Ali Hajizadeh, the head of the Revolutionary Guard's aerospace division, during the second day of a military drill in an unknown location in central Iran. EPA

Missiles launch during the second day of military drill in an unknown location, central Iran. EPA

Medical staff walk inside a newly opened Hospital in the west bank city of Nablus. EPA

Environmentalists remove the carcass of a whale off the northern waters of Kuwait City. AFP

A boy walks past Lebanese police patrol cars in Souk Sabra in the southern suburbs of the capital Beirut. AFP

Kurdish women take part in a cycling marathon in the northeastern Syrian town of Amuda in Hasakeh province. AFP

A Sudanese Sufi Muslim performs a dance at a gathering outside the Hamad al-Nile shrine in Omdurman, the capital Khartoum's twin city. AFP

A Yemeni pupil goes to school, in Sanaa. EPA

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