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Gaza runner Bahaa al-Farra stretches during a training session as children mimic him while posing for the camera in Shati refugee camp in Gaza City March 25, 2012. The 19-year-old trains for three hours a day in Gaza’s Yarmouk soccer stadium, along the dusty streets and on the beach in well worn trainers that were donated to the Palestine Olympic Committee by wealthy Gulf state, Qatar, as he prepares to race at the London Olympics.

[Credit : Mohammed Salem/Reuters]

Palestinian activists held Palestinian national flags in front of the separation barrier in the West Bank village of Billin on Friday, during a protest calling for the release of the Palestinian prisoner Khader Adnan.

A Palestinian youth pushed a bicycle along a dumping site past a fire in the Gaza Strip.

Bedouin Palestinian children played with buckets on their heads near the Jewish settlement of Maale Adumim, West Bank.

A Palestinian construction worker screamed in pain after an Israeli soldier drove a trailer hooked to a tractor over his legs near Yatta, West Bank, Wednesday. Israeli forces seized equipment because they said the workers were building in an unauthorized area.

A Palestinian boy trying to play soccer wiped his face after accidentally crossing through a cloud of tear gas fired by Israeli soldiers toward a group of Palestinian protesters in the West Bank village of Nabi Salah.

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Illustrator Tim Enthoven hand-drew all 1,027 Palestinian captives that were exchanged for captured Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit for this week’s cover of The New York Times Magazine.

A Palestinian child threw stones toward Israeli border guards during clashes in Shuafat, a Palestinian neighborhood in East Jerusalem, Thursday.

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Palestinian children form Picasso’s Dove of Peace

Palestinian children looked at an Islamic Jihad militant in Beit Lahia in the Gaza Strip on Friday. Israel’s navy boarded two small protest boats trying to break the blockade of the Gaza Strip on Friday and towed them to an Israeli port.

A Palestinian man sifted through garbage that was dumped near Ramallah, in the West Bank, on Thursday. Palestinians regularly sift through the garbage looking for clothes, metal and other objects thrown out by the nearby Jewish settlements.

After being held captive by the Palestinian group Hamas for five years, Israeli soldier Gilad Schalit returned to his home in Mitzpe Hila, northern Israel. As his family and friends were celebrating his freedom, 477 of an eventual 1,027 Palestinians held in Israeli prisons were released to mass celebrations in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, part of the deal with Hamas. Schalit, a tank crewman who is now 25, was captured in June of 2006 near the Gaza border.

(Source: Boston.com)