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Palestinian firefighters extinguish the wreckage of a car, minutes after an Israeli helicopter missile attack in Gaza City Monday, September 1 - AP photo
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Only 13% of the land of East Jerusalem remains in Palestinian hands - Islam Online photo
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An eight-year-old Palestinian girl was killed and six other citizens were wounded Saturday afternoon by Israeli occupation forces in the Gaza Strip city of Khan Younis - IPC photo
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A woman mourns her olive trees in the West Bank village of Burin on Monday. The Israeli army destroyed more than 100 olive trees around the village in a single morning
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Another Palestinian family is made homeless in Tulkarem - Al-Ahram Weekly photo
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Israeli soldiers carry out more detention in Palestinian areas
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A performance by the Ibdaa Dance Troupe - click for story - photo courtesy of the Middle East Children's Alliance
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A Palestinian child is left homeless after Israeli bulldozers erased densely populated areas to make room for the new wall, in Rafah, Gaza Strip.
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Daniel Barenboim's West-Eastern-Divan Orchestra plays its first concert in Arab lands in Morocco, 8/24/03. Barenboim wants the orchestra to transcend divides - AFP photo
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Israeli bulldozers continue to raze Palestinian orchards and farm lands - IPC photo
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Workmen assemble a section of the Israeli separation barrier, which will consist of trenches, walls, barbed wire, electronic fences, and patrol roads. When completed, the barrier system will snake throughout the West Bank - REINHARD KRAUSE/REUTERS
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Palestinian children confront an Israeli tank in Jenin - BBC
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An Israeli soldier stands guard while a bulldozer closes Surda checkpoint, north of the West Bank town of Ramallah as Israel clamped a tight security cordon around Palestinian areas. - Palestine Monitor
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Hebron. Photo: Nati Shohat, Reuters
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A portion of the separation wall along side Qalqiliya, The West Bank, 7 July, 2003. Photo: Reinhard Krause, Reuters
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The wall near Qalqiliya - PENGON photo
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A Palestinian boy stands in front of a statue of a horse in the city of Jenin, August 14, 2003, made by the German scupltor Thomas Klipper. The statue was made from pieces of metal from ambulances, cars and homes destroyed by the Israeli occupying forces during their April 2002 invasion and occupation of Jenin. Klipper says the statue symbolizes the freedom of the Palestinian people. Photo by Said Dahlah - REUTERS
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Israeli bulldozers demolishing a house in Beit Hanina
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Dr. Mustafa Barghouthi, Secretary of the Palestinian National Initiative, addressing a demonstration in Bethlehem on Friday. Dr. Barghouthi joined representatives of various relief organizations to protest against the Israeli construction of an Apartheid wall and its recent progression to Bethlehem despite international condemnation.
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Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, left, sits before a large stack of papers on his desk, alongside Palestinian Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas, center, as the Palestinian executive committee meets in Arafat's headquarters in the West Bank town of Ramallah Sunday Aug. 18, 2003. (AP Photo/HO/Palestinian Authority, Omar Rashidi)
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Salim famliy in thier destroyed home in Balata on Sunday.
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Many Palestinians are sceptical about Israeli plans to withdraw
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Palestinian Minister for Security Affairs Mohammed Dahlan and Israeli Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz in negotiations
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The separation wall near Qalqiliya
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A Palestinian boy holds up a Palestinian flag during a demonstration against the construction of the Israeli racist wall. Palestinians have joined forces with international peace activists in demonstrating against the continued construction of the unilateral apartheid wall illegally being built on occupied land in defiance of international law and will.
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Villagers March To Say "No Aparthied Wall" - Over 300 protesters from the villages across northern Jenin area staged a demonstration Saturday, August 9th against the Apartheid Wall in the village of Taybah. They were joined by 15 International Solidarity Movement volunteers and Israeli activists. - ISM photo
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Palestinian youths demonstrate in Qalqilya, a city completely surrounded by Israels 8 meter high apartheid wall. This colonization wall, opposed by the international community under the leadership of the USA, is designed to capture more Palestinian land in order to expand illegal Jewish settlements built on occupied land while destroying the dream of a viable, secure and independent Palestinian state. - Jerusalemites photo
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Above: An Israeli soldier watches while a construction crew puts part of the Aparthied Wall in place near Qalqiliya, which is now completely encircled by the wall - photo by Ronald de Hommel
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Rescue workers at the scene of a suicide bombing in a shopping mall at Rosh Ha'ayin, Israel - Photograph by Nir Elias - Guardian
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Grieving family of a 16-year-old boy killed by Hizbullah shelling - BBC, AP photo
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A metaphor for the Palestinian economy: a Palestinian commercial truck struck on an Israeli dirt barricade while trying to enter Hebron - photo by William Seaman, Electronic Intifada
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Israeli forces continue their campaign of widespread arrests in the occupied Palestinian territories - International Press Center
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Israeli soldiers stop the crew of a Palestinian ambulance. Click for more information about the treatment of Palestinian ambulance crews by the Israeli army - International Middle East Media Center photo
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Palestinians search through the rubble of a building destroyed by an Israeli missile during an army operation in the Askar refugee camp near the West Bank city of Nablus, August 8. Nasser Ishtayeh - AP photo
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Click for story - Palestinian MP and human rights activist Hanan Ashrawi won the annual Sydney Peace Prize on Friday, August 8. Earlier this year, Ms. Ashrawi was awarded the Olaf Palme prize in Stockholm.
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5,000 people turned out in Nablus for funerals of three of four Palestinians killed August 8 - Middle East Online
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The separation wall may eventually snake some 400 miles throughout the West Bank and leave even larger swathes of its territory on the Israeli side - Islam Online
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The wall is over 26 feet tall, more than twice as high as the Berlin Wall, and will be at least four times longer if completed. Its route is separating Palestinians from their land.
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Palestinian women demonstrate behind a burning mock Israeli prison during a protest demanding the release of Palestinian prisoners in Hebron - Reuters photo
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An Israeli settler threatens a Palestinian woman with stoning. Organized settler violence, sometimes in concert with Israeli forces, is a constant threat, especially in the West Bank.
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An Israeli soldier accosts the groom at a Palestinian wedding - Middle East Online
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Palestinians are sometimes denied contact with their loved ones for weeks or months following arrest - International Press Center photo
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Palestinian Prime Minster Abbas and Israeli Prime Minster Ariel Sharon
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Daniel Barenboim [right] frequently uses his music to challenge fellow Israelis - BBC, AP photo
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Palestinian women hold photographs of loved ones imprisoned under Israeli military law - AP photo
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A Palestinian boy hides in fear as Israeli tanks rumble through the streets
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An elderly Palestinian woman in the ruins of a large open-air market destroyed by Israeli tanks and soldiers
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Standing up to the occupation
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According to current plans, it will stretch up to 370 miles (600 km) when complete - BBC, AP photo
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Palestinians see wall as a bid to grab land and in some places the route has gone deep into Palestinian territory - BBC, AP photo
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Israel is demanding the removal of this 'bridge' over the Wazzani River. The popular swimming spot is adjacent to a Lebanese restaurant. The UN is arbitrating.
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The wall is consuming, and destroying, a large amount of Palestinian land in the West Bank - Middle East Times
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Click for more information - Israeli soldiers beat health workers who are attempting to transport an injured Palestinian youngster, Jabalya refugee camp, Gaza, during the first Intifada - Photo: daymonjhartley.com
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One of the hundreds of non-violent demonstrations in Palestine that have not been reported by the American media
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Brick by brick, wall by wall, the occupation has to fall, chanted the pacifists - Islam Online photo
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In all languages: No apartheid wall! - Islam Online photo
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International and Palestinian peace activists protesting the Israeli segregation barrier strive to hold their ground under tear gas attack. Israeli soldiers shot five activists with rubber-clad bullets.
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Foreign activists from the International Solidarity Movement organization and Palestinians spray graffitti as they participate in a demonstration against the wall, erected by Israel in the northern West Bank town of Qalgilya Thursday July 31, 2003. Protesters splashed a concrete separation barrier with balloons filled with green, black, red and white paint, the colors of the Palestinian flag, and hoisted a banner calling the fence an apartheid wall. - AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis
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Israeli soldier on guard outside Ramallah - BBC, July 31, 2003
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The barrier is a fence in some areas - AP photo
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The West Bank barrier aims to separate Palestinians and Israelis - BBC, AP photo
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George W. Bush and Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon at the White House
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Surda Checkpoint: An Israeli military jeep on the main road between Ramallah and Birzeit, stopped traffic and created havoc this morning, July 31, just days after the Israeli government claimed to have removed a military checkpoint at the same place - Palestine Monitor, July 31, 2003
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Foreign activists have also joined in protests against the barrier and its controversial route - BBC, Agence France-Presse photo
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Despite Palestinian criticism of the project, many construction workers are Palestinians desperate for a job - BBC, AP photo
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While some can still go about their business, in other areas farmers have been cut off from orchards and olive groves - BBC, AP photo
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