Middle East in review

This monthly gallery features some of the top photojournalism made by Associated Press photographers documenting the Middle East, Afghanistan and Pakistan during the month of January.

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. (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. (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. (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. (AP Photo/Muhammad Sajjad)

A motorcyclist drives as heavy fog reduces visibility, in Peshawar, Pakistan, Sunday, Jan. 1, 2023. (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. (AP Photo/Muhammad Sajjad)

Taliban fighters check the site of an explosion, near the Interior Ministry, in Kabul, Afghanistan, Sunday, Jan. 1, 2023. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)

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. (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. (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. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)

Palestinians celebrate after a shooting attack near a synagogue in Jerusalem, in Gaza City, Friday, Jan. 27, 2023. (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. (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 a cemetery in Najaf, Iraq, Monday, Jan. 2, 2023. (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. (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)

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Lead Photo: 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. (AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed)

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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