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Former French football player Lilian Thuram visits the Palestinian city of Hebron in support of the education programme funded by France through the United Nations Relief and Works Agency.

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Former French football player Lilian Thuram visits Hebron for UN

Former French football player Lilian Thuram visits the Palestinian city of Hebron in support of the education programme funded by France through the...

by Nayef Hashlamoun - ALWATAN Center in Palestinian Territory on 13/04/2011

Palestinian Islamic Jihad supporters shout slogans as they march in the Khan Yunis refugee camp in the southern Gaza Strip, during a rally against an Israeli plan to renovate two deeply contested holy sites in the occupied West Bank. Khan Younis, Palestinian Territory. 26/02/2010.


Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was lambasted by the Israeli press on his plans to renovate Rachel's Tomb in Bethlehem and the Tomb of the Patriarchs in Hebron, with two papers warning that he is playing with fire. 
Photo By Abed Rahim Khatib

Politics

Protest against Israeli plan to renovate two deeply contested holy in West Bank

Palestinian Islamic Jihad supporters shout slogans as they march in the Khan Yunis refugee camp in the southern Gaza Strip, during a rally against an...

by Khalil Ibrahim in Palestinian Territory on 26/02/2010

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Protest against Israeli plan to renovate two deeply contested holy in West Bank
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