Middle East Images of the Week

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An ultra-Orthodox Jewish man takes part in the Tashlich ritual on September 24, 2012, ahead of Yom Kippur, the Jewish Day of Atonement, which starts at sundown Tuesday.

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Girls from Lebanon's Hezbollah Scouts wave Hezbollah and Lebanese flags and a sign saying "We sacrifice ourselves for you, Prophet of God" during a protest against the film made in the U.S. that mocks Prophet Mohammad in Beirut September 28, 2012.

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Relatives sit under pictures of disappeared political figures, putting focus on people who have disappeared in what is known as the "forced disappearance", in Sanaa September 27, 2012.

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Residents transport the coffin of the former governor of Basra Mohammed Musabih Al-Waili during his funeral in Basra, September 28, 2012.