Photo:UN teams have been present at the Ramouseh Government checkpoint in Aleppo, Syria, to observe and monitor the evacuations from east Aleppo since 15 December 2016 and are still maintaining a presence. 21 December 2016.
Politics
Photo:Students attend classes at the Abu Tamam basic for girls in Gaza.
Photo:Toddlers sit on the top step and their grandmother stands on a landing, inside their partially destroyed home in the Shejaiya neighbourhood of Gaza City.
Photo:Demonstration outside Parliament on December 6, 2016, with women in white dresses and wrapped in bandages, calling for the repeal of article 522 of the penal code.
Photo:Two soldiers from forces operating under Libya’s Tripoli-based government walking through the deserted streets of Bin Jawad, near the important oil port of Sidra.
Photo:Halamish, an Israeli settlement, stands in the northern West Bank, near the Palestinian village of Nabih Saleh.
Photo:WHO partners in Syria vaccinate children who have fled eastern Aleppo – in this case to Jibreen, rural Aleppo. Prior to the crisis, Syria had one of the highest vaccination rates in the Middle East. Now, half of all children are missing out on life-saving vaccines.
Photo:Residents of the Thet Kae Pyin camp for displaced people in Sittwe, Rakhine State, Myanmar.