AP Month in Pictures: Middle East, Afghanistan and Pakistan
Mourners carry the bodies of eight Palestinians, some draped in the flag of the Islamic Jihad militant group, during a joint funeral in the West Bank city of Jenin, Thursday, Jan. 26, 2023. Israeli forces killed at least nine Palestinians, including a 60-year-old woman, and wounded several others during a raid in the flashpoint area of the occupied West Bank, Palestinian health officials said, in one of the deadliest days of fighting in years. The Israeli military said it was conducting an operation to arrest militants when a gun battle erupted. (AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed)
Mourners carry the body of 15-year-old Palestinian Adam Ayyad during his funeral in the West Bank city of Bethlehem, Tuesday, Jan. 3, 2023. The Palestinian Health Ministry said Ayyad died of a bullet wound to the chest. The Israeli military said Border Police officers came under attack in the Dheisha refugee camp next to Bethlehem. It said troops shot at people throwing firebombs and confirmed that a person was shot. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean)
Mourners gather around the body of 14-year-old Palestinian Omar Khumour during his funeral in the West Bank city of Bethlehem, Monday, Jan. 16, 2023. The Palestinian Health Ministry said Khumour died after being struck in the head by a bullet during an Israeli military raid into Dheisha refugee camp near the city of Bethlehem. The Israeli army said that forces entered the Dheisha camp and were bombarded by Molotov cocktails and rocks. It said soldiers responded to the onslaught with live fire. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean)
Amal and Amani Abu Junaid sisters of Ahmed Abu Junaid, 21 cry during his funeral in the West Bank refugee camp of Balata, Nablus, Thursday, Jan. 12, 2023. During a pre dawn Israeli military incursion into the hardscrabble Balata refugee camp, Israeli forces shot Abu Junaid in the head and he died several hours later, the Palestinian Health Ministry said. (AP Photo/Nasser Nasser)
A Palestinian youth assists his friend to tie his scarf before a weekly protest in the West Bank town of Kfar Qaddum, Friday, Jan. 13, 2023. (AP Photo/ Maya Alleruzzo)
An injured victim of a suicide bombing talks on his mobile phone after getting initial treatment outside a hospital in Peshawar, Pakistan, Monday, Jan. 30, 2023. A suicide bomber struck Monday inside a mosque in the northwestern Pakistani city of Peshawar, killing multiple people and wounding scores of worshippers, officials said. (AP Photo/Muhammad Sajjad)
A motorcyclist drives as heavy fog reduces visibility, in Peshawar, Pakistan, Sunday, Jan. 1, 2023. (AP Photo/Muhammad Sajjad)
Taliban fighters check the site of an explosion, near the Interior Ministry, in Kabul, Afghanistan, Sunday, Jan. 1, 2023. A bomb exploded near a checkpoint at Kabul’s military airport Sunday morning killing and wounding several people, a Taliban official said, the first deadly blast of 2023 in Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)
Workers and volunteers carry an injured victim of a suicide bombing upon arrival at a hospital in Peshawar, Pakistan, Monday, Jan. 30, 2023. A suicide bomber struck Monday inside a mosque in the northwestern Pakistani city of Peshawar, killing multiple people and wounding scores of worshippers, officials said. (AP Photo/Muhammad Sajjad)
People attend the funeral prayer for a police officer killed in Monday’s suicide bombing inside a mosque in Peshawar, Pakistan, Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2023. The death toll from the previous day’s suicide bombing at a mosque in northwestern Pakistani rose to more than 85 on Tuesday, officials said. The assault on a Sunni Mosque inside a major police facility was one of the deadliest attacks on Pakistani security forces in recent years. (AP Photo/Muhammad Sajjad)
A hospital worker stand beside the bodied, who were killed in the bus accident, at a morgue, in Karachi, Pakistan, Sunday, Jan. 29, 2023. The passenger bus crashed into a pillar and fell off a bridge, catching fire and killing dozens of people in southern Pakistan on Sunday, a government official said. (AP Photo/Ikram Suri)
Ultra-Orthodox Jews mourn over the body of Rabbi Shimon Baadani during his funeral, in Bnei Brak, Israel, Wednesday, Jan. 11, 2023. Baadani died today at the age of 94, he was the president of the Shas party’s “Council of Torah Sages,” a group of rabbis that provides spiritual guidance and sets policies for the ultra-Orthodox party’s political leadership. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)
Palestinians celebrate after a shooting attack near a synagogue in Jerusalem, in Gaza City, Friday, Jan. 27, 2023. A Palestinian gunman opened fire outside an east Jerusalem synagogue Friday night, killing seven people, including a 70-year-old woman, and wounding three others before police shot and killed him, officials said. It was the deadliest attack on Israelis in years and raised the likelihood of further bloodshed.(AP Photo/Fatima Shbair)
Palestinians burn tires and wave the national flag during a protest against Israeli military raid in the West Bank city of Jenin, along the border fence with Israel, in east of Gaza City, Thursday, Jan. 26, 2023. During the raid in the West Bank town of Jenin, Israeli forces killed at least nine Palestinians, including a 60-year-old woman, and wounded several others, Palestinian health officials said, in one of the deadliest days of fighting in years. The Israeli military said it was conducting an operation to arrest militants when a gun battle erupted. (AP Photo/Fatima Shbair)
People walk walk over Israeli and American flags during a third anniversary assassination of Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, deputy commander of Iran-backed militias in Iraq known as the Popular Mobilization Forces and Iran’s top general Qassam Soleimani at cemetery in Najaf, Iraq, Monday, Jan. 2, 2023. Al-Muhandis and Soleimani were killed in an US air strike in Baghdad in 2020. , (AP Photo/Anmar Khalil)
Iranian demonstrators show photos of the Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on the screen of their cellphones during their protest against cartoons published by the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo that lampoon Iran’s ruling clerics, in front of the French Embassy in Tehran, Iran, Wednesday, Jan. 11, 2023. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)
A man drinks tea at a roadside stall as heavy fog reduces visibility in Lahore, Pakistan, Monday, Jan. 2, 2023. (AP Photo/K.M. Chaudary)
Migrating cranes flock as fog covers the Hula Lake conservation area, north of the Sea of Galilee, in northern Israel, Thursday, Jan. 26, 2023. More than half a billion birds of some 400 different species pass through the Jordan Valley to Africa and go back to Europe during the year. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)
A first Afghan made sports car is seen outside the Entop car studio in Kabul, Afghanistan, Friday, Jan. 13, 2023. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)
Shubhankar Sharma of India tees off on the 8th hole during his first round on Day Two of the Dubai Desert Classic, in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, Friday, Jan. 27, 2023. (AP Photo/Kamran Jebreili)
Mourners carry the bodies of eight Palestinians, some draped in the flag of the Islamic Jihad militant group, during a joint funeral in the West Bank city of Jenin, Thursday, Jan. 26, 2023. Israeli forces killed at least nine Palestinians, including a 60-year-old woman, and wounded several others during a raid in the flashpoint area of the occupied West Bank, Palestinian health officials said, in one of the deadliest days of fighting in years. The Israeli military said it was conducting an operation to arrest militants when a gun battle erupted. (AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed)
Mourners carry the bodies of eight Palestinians, some draped in the flag of the Islamic Jihad militant group, during a joint funeral in the West Bank city of Jenin, Thursday, Jan. 26, 2023. Israeli forces killed at least nine Palestinians, including a 60-year-old woman, and wounded several others during a raid in the flashpoint area of the occupied West Bank, Palestinian health officials said, in one of the deadliest days of fighting in years. The Israeli military said it was conducting an operation to arrest militants when a gun battle erupted. (AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed)
Mourners carry the body of 15-year-old Palestinian Adam Ayyad during his funeral in the West Bank city of Bethlehem, Tuesday, Jan. 3, 2023. The Palestinian Health Ministry said Ayyad died of a bullet wound to the chest. The Israeli military said Border Police officers came under attack in the Dheisha refugee camp next to Bethlehem. It said troops shot at people throwing firebombs and confirmed that a person was shot. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean)
Mourners carry the body of 15-year-old Palestinian Adam Ayyad during his funeral in the West Bank city of Bethlehem, Tuesday, Jan. 3, 2023. The Palestinian Health Ministry said Ayyad died of a bullet wound to the chest. The Israeli military said Border Police officers came under attack in the Dheisha refugee camp next to Bethlehem. It said troops shot at people throwing firebombs and confirmed that a person was shot. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean)
Mourners gather around the body of 14-year-old Palestinian Omar Khumour during his funeral in the West Bank city of Bethlehem, Monday, Jan. 16, 2023. The Palestinian Health Ministry said Khumour died after being struck in the head by a bullet during an Israeli military raid into Dheisha refugee camp near the city of Bethlehem. The Israeli army said that forces entered the Dheisha camp and were bombarded by Molotov cocktails and rocks. It said soldiers responded to the onslaught with live fire. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean)
Mourners gather around the body of 14-year-old Palestinian Omar Khumour during his funeral in the West Bank city of Bethlehem, Monday, Jan. 16, 2023. The Palestinian Health Ministry said Khumour died after being struck in the head by a bullet during an Israeli military raid into Dheisha refugee camp near the city of Bethlehem. The Israeli army said that forces entered the Dheisha camp and were bombarded by Molotov cocktails and rocks. It said soldiers responded to the onslaught with live fire. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean)
Amal and Amani Abu Junaid sisters of Ahmed Abu Junaid, 21 cry during his funeral in the West Bank refugee camp of Balata, Nablus, Thursday, Jan. 12, 2023. During a pre dawn Israeli military incursion into the hardscrabble Balata refugee camp, Israeli forces shot Abu Junaid in the head and he died several hours later, the Palestinian Health Ministry said. (AP Photo/Nasser Nasser)
Amal and Amani Abu Junaid sisters of Ahmed Abu Junaid, 21 cry during his funeral in the West Bank refugee camp of Balata, Nablus, Thursday, Jan. 12, 2023. During a pre dawn Israeli military incursion into the hardscrabble Balata refugee camp, Israeli forces shot Abu Junaid in the head and he died several hours later, the Palestinian Health Ministry said. (AP Photo/Nasser Nasser)
A Palestinian youth assists his friend to tie his scarf before a weekly protest in the West Bank town of Kfar Qaddum, Friday, Jan. 13, 2023. (AP Photo/ Maya Alleruzzo)
An injured victim of a suicide bombing talks on his mobile phone after getting initial treatment outside a hospital in Peshawar, Pakistan, Monday, Jan. 30, 2023. A suicide bomber struck Monday inside a mosque in the northwestern Pakistani city of Peshawar, killing multiple people and wounding scores of worshippers, officials said. (AP Photo/Muhammad Sajjad)
An injured victim of a suicide bombing talks on his mobile phone after getting initial treatment outside a hospital in Peshawar, Pakistan, Monday, Jan. 30, 2023. A suicide bomber struck Monday inside a mosque in the northwestern Pakistani city of Peshawar, killing multiple people and wounding scores of worshippers, officials said. (AP Photo/Muhammad Sajjad)
A motorcyclist drives as heavy fog reduces visibility, in Peshawar, Pakistan, Sunday, Jan. 1, 2023. (AP Photo/Muhammad Sajjad)
Taliban fighters check the site of an explosion, near the Interior Ministry, in Kabul, Afghanistan, Sunday, Jan. 1, 2023. A bomb exploded near a checkpoint at Kabul’s military airport Sunday morning killing and wounding several people, a Taliban official said, the first deadly blast of 2023 in Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)
Taliban fighters check the site of an explosion, near the Interior Ministry, in Kabul, Afghanistan, Sunday, Jan. 1, 2023. A bomb exploded near a checkpoint at Kabul’s military airport Sunday morning killing and wounding several people, a Taliban official said, the first deadly blast of 2023 in Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)
Workers and volunteers carry an injured victim of a suicide bombing upon arrival at a hospital in Peshawar, Pakistan, Monday, Jan. 30, 2023. A suicide bomber struck Monday inside a mosque in the northwestern Pakistani city of Peshawar, killing multiple people and wounding scores of worshippers, officials said. (AP Photo/Muhammad Sajjad)
Workers and volunteers carry an injured victim of a suicide bombing upon arrival at a hospital in Peshawar, Pakistan, Monday, Jan. 30, 2023. A suicide bomber struck Monday inside a mosque in the northwestern Pakistani city of Peshawar, killing multiple people and wounding scores of worshippers, officials said. (AP Photo/Muhammad Sajjad)
People attend the funeral prayer for a police officer killed in Monday’s suicide bombing inside a mosque in Peshawar, Pakistan, Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2023. The death toll from the previous day’s suicide bombing at a mosque in northwestern Pakistani rose to more than 85 on Tuesday, officials said. The assault on a Sunni Mosque inside a major police facility was one of the deadliest attacks on Pakistani security forces in recent years. (AP Photo/Muhammad Sajjad)
People attend the funeral prayer for a police officer killed in Monday’s suicide bombing inside a mosque in Peshawar, Pakistan, Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2023. The death toll from the previous day’s suicide bombing at a mosque in northwestern Pakistani rose to more than 85 on Tuesday, officials said. The assault on a Sunni Mosque inside a major police facility was one of the deadliest attacks on Pakistani security forces in recent years. (AP Photo/Muhammad Sajjad)
A hospital worker stand beside the bodied, who were killed in the bus accident, at a morgue, in Karachi, Pakistan, Sunday, Jan. 29, 2023. The passenger bus crashed into a pillar and fell off a bridge, catching fire and killing dozens of people in southern Pakistan on Sunday, a government official said. (AP Photo/Ikram Suri)
A hospital worker stand beside the bodied, who were killed in the bus accident, at a morgue, in Karachi, Pakistan, Sunday, Jan. 29, 2023. The passenger bus crashed into a pillar and fell off a bridge, catching fire and killing dozens of people in southern Pakistan on Sunday, a government official said. (AP Photo/Ikram Suri)
Ultra-Orthodox Jews mourn over the body of Rabbi Shimon Baadani during his funeral, in Bnei Brak, Israel, Wednesday, Jan. 11, 2023. Baadani died today at the age of 94, he was the president of the Shas party’s “Council of Torah Sages,” a group of rabbis that provides spiritual guidance and sets policies for the ultra-Orthodox party’s political leadership. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)
Ultra-Orthodox Jews mourn over the body of Rabbi Shimon Baadani during his funeral, in Bnei Brak, Israel, Wednesday, Jan. 11, 2023. Baadani died today at the age of 94, he was the president of the Shas party’s “Council of Torah Sages,” a group of rabbis that provides spiritual guidance and sets policies for the ultra-Orthodox party’s political leadership. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)
Palestinians celebrate after a shooting attack near a synagogue in Jerusalem, in Gaza City, Friday, Jan. 27, 2023. A Palestinian gunman opened fire outside an east Jerusalem synagogue Friday night, killing seven people, including a 70-year-old woman, and wounding three others before police shot and killed him, officials said. It was the deadliest attack on Israelis in years and raised the likelihood of further bloodshed.(AP Photo/Fatima Shbair)
Palestinians celebrate after a shooting attack near a synagogue in Jerusalem, in Gaza City, Friday, Jan. 27, 2023. A Palestinian gunman opened fire outside an east Jerusalem synagogue Friday night, killing seven people, including a 70-year-old woman, and wounding three others before police shot and killed him, officials said. It was the deadliest attack on Israelis in years and raised the likelihood of further bloodshed.(AP Photo/Fatima Shbair)
Palestinians burn tires and wave the national flag during a protest against Israeli military raid in the West Bank city of Jenin, along the border fence with Israel, in east of Gaza City, Thursday, Jan. 26, 2023. During the raid in the West Bank town of Jenin, Israeli forces killed at least nine Palestinians, including a 60-year-old woman, and wounded several others, Palestinian health officials said, in one of the deadliest days of fighting in years. The Israeli military said it was conducting an operation to arrest militants when a gun battle erupted. (AP Photo/Fatima Shbair)
Palestinians burn tires and wave the national flag during a protest against Israeli military raid in the West Bank city of Jenin, along the border fence with Israel, in east of Gaza City, Thursday, Jan. 26, 2023. During the raid in the West Bank town of Jenin, Israeli forces killed at least nine Palestinians, including a 60-year-old woman, and wounded several others, Palestinian health officials said, in one of the deadliest days of fighting in years. The Israeli military said it was conducting an operation to arrest militants when a gun battle erupted. (AP Photo/Fatima Shbair)
People walk walk over Israeli and American flags during a third anniversary assassination of Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, deputy commander of Iran-backed militias in Iraq known as the Popular Mobilization Forces and Iran’s top general Qassam Soleimani at cemetery in Najaf, Iraq, Monday, Jan. 2, 2023. Al-Muhandis and Soleimani were killed in an US air strike in Baghdad in 2020. , (AP Photo/Anmar Khalil)
People walk walk over Israeli and American flags during a third anniversary assassination of Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, deputy commander of Iran-backed militias in Iraq known as the Popular Mobilization Forces and Iran’s top general Qassam Soleimani at cemetery in Najaf, Iraq, Monday, Jan. 2, 2023. Al-Muhandis and Soleimani were killed in an US air strike in Baghdad in 2020. , (AP Photo/Anmar Khalil)
Iranian demonstrators show photos of the Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on the screen of their cellphones during their protest against cartoons published by the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo that lampoon Iran’s ruling clerics, in front of the French Embassy in Tehran, Iran, Wednesday, Jan. 11, 2023. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)
Iranian demonstrators show photos of the Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on the screen of their cellphones during their protest against cartoons published by the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo that lampoon Iran’s ruling clerics, in front of the French Embassy in Tehran, Iran, Wednesday, Jan. 11, 2023. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)
A man drinks tea at a roadside stall as heavy fog reduces visibility in Lahore, Pakistan, Monday, Jan. 2, 2023. (AP Photo/K.M. Chaudary)
Migrating cranes flock as fog covers the Hula Lake conservation area, north of the Sea of Galilee, in northern Israel, Thursday, Jan. 26, 2023. More than half a billion birds of some 400 different species pass through the Jordan Valley to Africa and go back to Europe during the year. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)
Migrating cranes flock as fog covers the Hula Lake conservation area, north of the Sea of Galilee, in northern Israel, Thursday, Jan. 26, 2023. More than half a billion birds of some 400 different species pass through the Jordan Valley to Africa and go back to Europe during the year. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)
A first Afghan made sports car is seen outside the Entop car studio in Kabul, Afghanistan, Friday, Jan. 13, 2023. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)
Shubhankar Sharma of India tees off on the 8th hole during his first round on Day Two of the Dubai Desert Classic, in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, Friday, Jan. 27, 2023. (AP Photo/Kamran Jebreili)
JANUARY 2023
This photo gallery highlights some of the most compelling images made or published by Associated Press photographers in Middle East, Afghanistan and Pakistan in January 2023.
This month’s selection shows scenes from across the region, including images of continued violence in the occupied West Bank, mosque bombing in Pakistan border town of Peshawar, migrating cranes in Israel, first sports car designed and assembled by Afghan engineers.
The gallery was curated by Oded Balilty, AP Chief photographer for Israel, the West Bank and Gaza, and Dusan Vranic, Deputy News Director for Photography for the Middle East, Afghanistan & Pakistan.
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