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Linah Alsaafin

Linah Alsaafin is a writer and editor based in the West Bank. On Twitter: @LinahAlsaafin

Rukia, the mother-in-law of Palestinian prisoner Ibtisam Issawi, holds a flag outside her home in the Arab East Jerusalem neighbourhood of Jabal Mukaber October 17, 2011, as the family prepares for the release of Issawi in a prisoner swap that is expected to take place on Tuesday. Israel and Gaza's Hamas Islamist rulers have agreed to swap 1,027 Palestinian prisoners in return for Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit, who has been held captive in Gaza since 2006. REUTERS/Ammar Awad (JERUSALEM - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL

Mother of Palestinian Prisoners Lacks Faith in PA Leadership

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Palestinians, together with Israeli and foreign activists, stand near newly-erected tents in an area known as E1, near Jerusalem January 12, 2013. Palestinians from villages in the occupied West Bank near Jerusalem pitched tents on Friday on the land Israel has earmarked for a new urban settlement, looking to preserve the area for an independent Palestinian state. REUTER/Baz Ratner (WEST BANK - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST BUSINESS CONSTRUCTION) - RTR3CD0D

Israeli Military Cracks Down On Palestinian Tent Villages

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Palestinian street vendor pushes his carriage of vegetebles in the West
Bank City of Ramallah April 8, 2002, during a four-hour lift of the
army-imposed curfew. Israeli troops fired shots at the Church of the
Nativity in Bethlehem on Monday and battled Palestinian gunmen in the
West Bank towns of Jenin and Nablus, defying U.S. demands for an end to
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Ramallah Wages War on Cart Sellers

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A Palestinian stone-thrower uses a sling to throw back a tear gas canister fired by Israeli security forces during clashes outside Ofer prison near the West Bank city of Ramallah November 18, 2012. The clashes broke out following a protest against Israel's military operation in the Gaza Strip. REUTERS/Mohamad Torokman (WEST BANK - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY) - RTR3AKLT

Anger at Israeli Detention Of Palestinian Activist

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An Israeli soldier aims his weapon at a Palestinian man after clashes broke out during a violent Palestinian demonstration against the expansion of the nearby Jewish settlement of Itamar December 3. Four Palestinians were wounded by Israeli troops firing tear gas and rubber bullets as some 200 residents of Yanoun village protested against the confiscation of their land for the settlement.

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Village Threatened With Extinction By Israeli Settlement

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A Palestinian protester holds a flag in front of Israeli soldiers and border police during a protest outside Ofer prison near the West Bank city of Ramallah, marking the anniversary of the 1967 Middle East War, June 5, 2012. REUTERS/Mohamad Torokman (WEST BANK - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST)

Conditions in Israeli Prisons Take Toll on Palestinian Families

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Palestinians play in the snow in the West Bank city of Ramallah January 10, 2013. At least 17 people have died due to a storm in Lebanon, Jordan, Turkey, Israel and the Palestinian territories. Meteorological agencies in Israel and Lebanon both called it the worst storm in 20 years. REUTERS/Mohamad Torokman (WEST BANK - Tags: ENVIRONMENT)

Flooding Brings Misery For West Bank Residents

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Palestinian children carry Palestinian flags during a ceremony to mark Palestinian Martyrs' Day, at Chatila refugee camp in Beirut January 9, 2009. REUTERS/ Jamal Saidi (LEBANON)

Martyr's Day and the Palestinian Resistance

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Palestinian teachers take part in a protest at the United Nation Relief and Work Agency (UNRWA) headquarters in Gaza City October 5, 2011. Thousands of Gaza teachers quit their classes on Wednesday to protest at at U.N refugee agency's suspension of a Palestinian staffer, rising tension between UNRWA and Gaza's Islamist Hamas rulers. REUTERS/Mohammed Salem (GAZA - Tags: POLITICS EDUCATION CIVIL UNREST)

Teachers Protest Hiring Bias by PA

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A supporter holds a model of a Hamas-made rocket as others wave flags during a rally in the West Bank city of Hebron, marking the 25th anniversary of the founding of Hamas, December 14, 2012. It was one of the first rallies Western-backed Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas allowed to take place in the West Bank since 2007, when his Islamist rivals Hamas seized control of the Gaza Strip. REUTERS/Ammar Awad (WEST BANK - Tags: POLITICS ANNIVERSARY)

PA Mass Arrests Include Democracy Activists

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