The Middle East Framed - regional photography for July 29, 2019

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

People enjoy the sea at Menekse at sunset in Istanbul. AFP

A Syrian woman and her baby enjoy the sea at Menekse in Istanbul. Syrians living illegally in Istanbul have until August 20 to leave the city or face expulsion, authorities warned on July 22, as hostility mounts towards the millions of refugees in Turkey. AFP

Lebanese policemen stand the entrance of the Labor Ministry during a protest against raids and arrests targeting unlicenced foreign workers in the southern suburb of Beirut, Lebanon. EPA

Lebanese army soldiers on military vehicles patrol the road as Lebanese, Palestinian and Syrian activists hold a placard reading in Arabic 'The country can accommodate all, work is everyone's right' in front the Labor Ministry in the southern suburb of Beirut, Lebanon. EPA

A man fishes on a highly polluted shore during a sunny day as water pours out of an artesian well from an unknown source at the Corniche al-Manara in Beirut, Lebanon. EPA

A picture shows Jordanian King Abdullah II (C-L) and members of his accompanying delegation meeting with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi (C-R), with his Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry (4th-R) and Intelligence Chief General Abbas Kamel (3rd-R) at the presidential palace in the capital Cairo. AFP

Polish artist Mario, sculptor of St. Simon the Tanner Monastery complex, works on a scene relief depicting the Crucifixion of Jesus Christ and a verse in Arabic from the Biblical Book of Isaiah reading "he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities, the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed", at the church in the Egyptian capital Cairo's eastern hillside Mokkatam district. AFP

An internal security patrol member looks at a woman holding a baby, reportedly a wife of an Islamic State (ISIS) group fighter, in the al-Hol camp in al-Hasakeh governorate in northeastern Syria. AFP

An internal security patrol escorts women, reportedly wives of Islamic State (ISIS) group fighters, in the al-Hol camp in al-Hasakeh governorate in northeastern Syria. AFP

A man tries to catch locusts while standing on a rooftop as they swarm over the Huthi rebel-held Yemeni capital Sana'a. AFP

A boy holds a desert locust caught while swarming the sky over the Huthi rebel-held Yemeni capital Sanaa. AFP

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