The Middle East Framed - regional photography for January 30, 2019

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A Palestinian protester carries a wounded comrade during the clashes near the maritime border between Israel and Gaza Strip. EPA

People feed seagulls as they stand at the back of Kadikoy ferry crossing the Bosphorus in Istanbul. AFP

Saudi prisoner Musa al-Awaji lies in a stretcher as members of the International Committee of the Red Cross prepare him to board a plane at Sanaa airport following his release by Yemen's Houthi rebels. AFP

UN Special Envoy for Yemen Martin Griffiths, centre, arrives for a meeting with Houthi-appointed local officials in the embattled Yemeni Red Sea port city of Hodeidah. AFP

Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and Deputy Supreme Commander of the UAE Armed Forces, left, receives Sheikh Nasser bin Sabah Al Ahmad Al Sabah, First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Defence of Kuwait. Ministry of Presidential Affairs

People walk in front of the Tunis Palace of Justice in Tunis. More than 40 people have been summoned to face trial over Tunisia's deadliest attack in a Mediterranean resort in 2015. The trial reopened on Tuesday in Tunis, more than three-and-a-half years after the attack on the Imperial Hotel in the beach resort of Sousse left 38 people dead, mostly British tourists. AP

French President Emmanuel Macron, centre, and his wife Brigitte Macron, right, laying a wreath at the St Peter and St Paul's Church, that was targeted by an attack in 2016, during his visit at the Coptic Cathedral complex in Cairo, Egypt. EPA

Al Qaeda-linked fighters driving their vehicles during a military drill in northern Syria. It took the Al Qaeda-linked militants only few days to capture more than two dozen towns and villages in and around Idlib province, cementing the group’s control over an area in northwestern Syria. AP

Iraqis tour a contemporary art exhibition at one of the halls of the national museum of the northern Iraqi city of Mosul. AFP

Members of an Italian restoration team work at the Church of Nativity, accepted by Christians as the birthplace of Jesus Christ, in the West Bank city of Bethlehem. The church, one of the world's oldest, is still undergoing massive reconstruction work, and is covered in white plastic sheets and scaffolding. EPA

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