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![Palestinian refugee Khamis Redwan, 75, poses for a photograph between the narrow alleys of Jabalya refugee camp in the northern Gaza Strip May 14, 2013. Redwan said he was 10 years old when he was forced out of his native town with his family to the Gaza Strip. Palestinians will mark "Nakba" (Catastrophe) on May 15 to commemorate the expulsion or fleeing of some 700,000 Palestinians from their homes in the war that led to the founding of Israel in 1948. REUTERS/Suhaib Salem (GAZA - Tags: CIVIL UNREST POLI](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header/public/almpics/2015/08/RTXZM6M.jpg/RTXZM6M.jpg?h=f7822858&itok=8FhzWnq-)
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![Palestinian lawmakers attend a session of the Palestinian Legislative Council in the West Bank city of Ramallah February 20, 2007. Hamas said on Tuesday it still hoped Washington would soften its position towards a Palestinian unity government following talks U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice held with Israeli and Palestinian leaders. REUTERS/Loay Abu Haykel (WEST BANK) - RTR1MLWX](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header/public/almpics/2015/03/RTR1MLWX.jpg/RTR1MLWX.jpg?h=f7822858&itok=NmVDUqe5)
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![Palestinian children from the Al-Qarawi family watch television in a tent in the northern Gaza Strip June 9, 2010. The tent was erected after their family's house was destroyed during Israel's three-week offensive in Gaza last year. REUTERS/Mohammed Salem (GAZA - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST) - RTR2EY18](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header/public/almpics/2015/02/RTR2EY18.jpg/RTR2EY18.jpg?h=f7822858&itok=BoDVG6XN)
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![KHAN YUNIS, -: The new al-Aqsa University campus built on the former Jewish settlement of Neve Dekalim in Khan Yunis, 11 July 2006. The Palestinian Authority decided to build the new university on the land evacuated by Israeli Jewish settlers in the former Neve Dekalim settlement, instead of where the settlers had constructed permanent buildings. The settlement of Neve Dekalim was totally destroyed by Israeli bulldozers after their pullout in September 2005, but the permanment building was the only one lef](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header/public/almpics/2014/12/71424525.jpg/71424525.jpg?h=f7822858&itok=oNRZpJcb)
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![A Palestinian man throws a flag atop the rubble of the home of Hamas Gaza leader Ismail Haniyeh, which Gaza's interior ministry said was hit by a missile fired by Israeli aircraft before dawn on Tuesday, causing damage but no casualties, in Gaza City July 29, 2014. Israel's military pounded targets in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said his country needed to be prepared for a long conflict in the Palestinian enclave, squashing any hopes of a swift end to 22 days of fightin](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header/public/almpics/2014/09/RTR40GMX.jpg/RTR40GMX.jpg?h=f7822858&itok=TT-0fb5X)
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![A Palestinian Islamic Jihad militant holds an RPG during a rally celebrating what the militants say was a victory over Israel following a ceasefire in Gaza City August 29, 2014. An open-ended ceasefire, mediated by Egypt, took effect on Tuesday evening. It called for an indefinite halt to hostilities, the immediate opening of Gaza's blockaded crossings with Israel and Egypt, and a widening of the territory's fishing zone in the Mediterranean. Israel launched an offensive on July 8, with the declared aim of](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header/public/almpics/2014/09/RTR4497P.jpg/RTR4497P.jpg?h=f7822858&itok=INjDkS6X)
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![Rescue workers search for victims as Palestinians gather around the wreckage of a house, which witnesses said was destroyed in an Israeli air strike that killed at least nine members from the al-Ghol family, in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip August 3, 2014. Renewed Israeli shelling killed at least 30 people in Gaza on Sunday after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed to keep up pressure on Hamas even after the army completes its core mission of destroying a tunnel network that extends into Israel. Shel](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header/public/almpics/2014/08/RTR411S1.jpg/RTR411S1.jpg?h=f7822858&itok=7woGW7Ie)
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![Palestinian relatives mourn for victims of the Duheir family, near the rubble of their home, after it was destroyed by an Israeli air strike in Rafah on July 29, 2014, in the southern of Gaza strip. Bloodshed in war-torn Gaza surged with dozens more Palestinians killed as the conflict raged into a fourth week and Iran accused Israel of genocide in the tiny enclave. AFP PHOTO/ SAID KHATIB (Photo credit should read SAID KHATIB/AFP/Getty Images)](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header/public/almpics/2014/07/452876680.jpg/452876680.jpg?h=f7822858&itok=3hv4Qx3-)
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