Middle East Images of the Week
A boy watches another jump from a bridge to cool off in the river Nile during Eid al-Fitr in Cairo August 20, 2012.
A Palestinian woman (L) holds a baby as she visits a beach in Tel Aviv during Eid al-Fitr, which marks the end of the holy month of Ramadan August 20, 2012.
A Sunni Muslim gunman takes position behind sandbags at the Sunni Muslim dominant Bab al-Tebbaneh neighbourhood in Tripoli, northern Lebanon, during clashes with Alawites, August 21, 2012 .
Student supporters of the Lebanese Christian Phalange party chant slogans and hold placards during a protest demanding the expulsion of the Syrian Ambassador Ali Abdul Karim Ali (R image) from Lebanon, in front of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Beirut
Japanese journalist Mika Yamamoto, an award-winning reporter who worked for Tokyo-based independent news wire Japan Press, is seen in this undated photo transmitted by Kyodo news agency in Tokyo August 21, 2012.
A blue United Nations cap is left near members of the U.N. observers mission in Syria, who have left their bases in the province of Homs in Central Syria, as they check their departure dates in a hotel in Damascus August 20, 2012.
Flames rise from Yemen's main gas pipeline after it was blown up by unknown attackers early August 21, 2012.
Yemeni military and police officials recite prayers during the funeral procession of police troopers, killed in Saturday's attack on an intelligence service headquarters, in Sanaa August 20, 2012.
A military personnel examines a car, which exploded near a women's police academy, in Tripoli August 19, 2012.
International Monetary Fund (IMF) Managing Director Christine Lagarde looks at one of the pyramids while listening to a guide's explanation as she visits the pyramids in Giza, at the end of her visit to Egypt, August 22, 2012.
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad speaks at the conclusion of an annual pro-Palestinian rally in Tehran, Iran, Friday, Aug. 17, 2012. Iran's president says Israel's existence is an "insult to all humanity."