Experiencing the power of a financial crisis is difficult because of reservations. Israeli occupation tax it collects on behalf of the Palestinian Authority as punishment for obtaining recent UN membership status are a financial burden.
In different scenes pictures of Palestinian martyrs and the remains of shells and rockets fired during the Six-Day War in 1967. The war was an Israeli act of aggression that greatly expanded the country's land mass.
Palestinians they protest against the Israeli blockade in East of the town the Khan Yunis near the border with Israel in southern Gaza Strip.PHOTO/ABED RAHIM KHATIB,Khan Yunis,Palestinian Territory, 26/09/2010.
Israeli warplanes fired missiles at several targets in the Gaza Strip wounding eight people, in response to witness and medics claims that a rocket was fired from the strip exploding in southern Israel. Gaza, Palestinian Territory, 31/07/2010.
Five Palestinians were killed by Israeli fire in Gaza as militants launched rockets and a rare cross-border raid after a deadly Israeli assault on an aid convoy. Rafah, Palestinian Territory. 01/06/2010.
Hamas briefly shut down smuggling tunnels on the Egyptian border that are the lifeline of the besieged enclave following an Israeli alert over security in the Sinai. Rafah, Palestinian Territory. 04/14/2010.
Maxwell Gaylard, the UN humanitarian coordinator for the Palestinian territories, visits the war-ravaged Ezbet Abed Rabbo neighbourhood of the Jabalia refugee camp in the northern Gaza Strip. Gaza, Pa
Palestinians shout slogans while waving red flags during a rally marking May Day near the Erez crossing between Israel and the northern Gaza Strip.GAZA,Palestinian Territory.05/01/2010
Palestinian Islamic Jihad supporters hold a mock rocket during a rally in Gaza City on October 30, 2009.Tens of thousands of Islamic Jihad loyalists gathered in Gaza in a memorial to the militant grou
Palestinian boy hold a mock Gun as stand over picture of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu a during rally in Gaza City on October 30, 2009.Tens of thousands of Islamic Jihad loyalists gathere
Israel says it is allowing the largest shipment of construction materials into Gaza since its deadly raid on an international flotilla in May. PHOTO/ABED RAHIM KHATIB, Rafah, Palestinian Territory, 22/09/2010.
Farmers gather flowers for export in a field in Rafah after Israel granted special approval for the export of a small amount of Palestinian Strawberries and flowers from the Gaza Strip to the European market. Rafah, Palestinian Territory. 28/11/2010
Following the Israeli authorities' decision to allow some 20 passenger vehicles to be transported into the impoverished Palestinian territory, the first such shipment in more than three years, the military said.PHOTO/ ABED RAHIM KHATIB
The Hamas-run government in Gaza said it had arrested spies from Israel, responsible for the deaths of scores of its fighters, but provided few other details. Gaza, Palestinian Territory. 23/09/2010.
Ramadan is the ninth month of the Islamic calendar, a month of fasting, in which participating Muslims refrain from eating, drinking and sexual activities from dawn until sunset. Khan Younis, Palestinian Territory.12/08/2010.
Demonstration to commemorate the death of the Secretary-General of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine Abu Ali Mustafa in Rafah, southern Gaza Strip,Palestinian Territory. 31/08/2010.
Israel on Monday gave the go-ahead for the international community to import construction materials into the Hamas-run Gaza Strip in an easing of its blockade that won cautious praise. Rafah, Palestinian Territory, 06/07/2010.
Called for reopening the border crossings of the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip, while she rebuffed the plan of Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman to pass on Gaza responsibility. Gaza,Palestinian Territory,18/07/2010.
A damaged water well at the scene of a destroyed building following an Israeli air strike overnight on the southern Gaza strip town of Rafah. Rafah, Palestinian Territory. 25/06/2010
A Palestinian militant was killed and three others wounded after Israeli bombing near the border fence east of Gaza City, Palestinian doctors said. Jabalia, Palestinian Territory, 28/06/2010.
Hamas prime minister Ismail Haniya in his office during an urgent meeting, with his ministers to discuss the storming of a Turkish aid ship bound for Gaza by Israeli marines on Monday. Gaza City, Palestinian Territory. 01/06/2010
Israel killed five Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, three in an air strike after a rocket attack on Israel and two in a separate ground confrontation, Palestinian rescue workers said. Khan Younis, Palestinian Territory. 02/06/2010.
Egypt allowed a delegation of nine opposition members of parliament to cross into Gaza on Tuesday a day after turning them back. Gaza strip, Palestinian Territory, 08/06/2010.
The 300 meter deep area was declared off-limits on the Palestinian side, after some 150 persons began a demonstration to oppose an Israeli ban on Gaza farmers approaching the border.
Palestinian youths running in the marathon contest during the cultural festival 2010 in Khan Younis in southern Gaza Strip.Khan Younis, Palestinian Territory.04/29/2010.
The first time conjoined twins are born in this area of the Palestinian Territory. The conjoined twins, weighing about 5kg were born on Saturday night and doctors have said they are in stable condition. Gaza, Palestinian Territory. 30/03/2010.
Demonstration for the release of Palestinian prisoners from Egyptian jails. At least twenty Palestinians are held in Egyptian jails, claims the Hamas police. Rafah,Palestinian Territory.03/31/2010.
DMTX. A Palestinian man sits in the rubble of a building at an abandoned airport which was destroyed by an Israeli air strike in the southern Gaza Strip. Israel launched the air strike in response to
DMTX. Gaza Hamas Prime Minister, Ismail Haniyeh, addresses members of the media during a press conference in his office in Gaza City, Palestinian Territory. 27/12/2009.
A Palestinian boy wearing a mask of Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas, stands behind bars during a mock trial in the Rafah refugee camp. Rafah, Palestinian Territories. 12/10/09.
Palestinian trucks loaded with flowers and strawberries at the Rafah border crossing in southern Gaza Strip after Israel granted special approval for the export Rafah,cPalestinian Territory. 28/11/2010.
Gaza's ubiquitous donkey carts are facing stiff competition after an influx of South Asia's iconic tuk-tuks, powered by ultra-cheap smuggled fuel, have hit the roads of the besieged coastal Gaza Strip, Rafah, Palestinian Territory, 18/09/2010
Gaza's ubiquitous donkey carts are facing stiff competition after an influx of South Asia's iconic tuk-tuks, powered by ultra-cheap smuggled fuel, have hit the roads of the besieged coastal Gaza Strip. Rafah,Palestinian Territory,18/09/2010.
Medics treat a wounded Palestinian at al Najar hospital after Israeli aircraft hit tunnels in southern Gaza in Rafah, Palestinian Territory. 05/09/2010.
Palestinians shop in the popular Rafah market in preparation for the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. Southern Gaza Strip, Rafah, Palestinian Territory. 07/08/2010.
Meteorologists expect midsummer temperatures to be around 35 degrees Celsius in the coming days and throughout the month of August. Rafah, Palestinian Territory. 07/08/2010.
A Palestinian boy plays with a sparkler on the eve of the Muslim holy fasting month of Ramadan in the Rafah refugee camp, southern Gaza Strip, Palestinian Territory. 10/08/2010
Israel targeted two buildings in Gaza used by Hamas militants as a training facility, Palestinian security officials said. Gaza militants had fired a rocket into the Israeli city of Ashkelon earlier in the day. Gaza, Palestinian Territory. 30/07/2010
A recent easing of the Israeli blockade of the Gaza Strip is welcome but not enough to meet the huge needs of the Palestinian enclave's 1.5 million people, a top UN official said. Rafah, Palestinian Territory. 03/07/2010.
Palestinians receive food aid from the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) at the refugee camp in Rafah, Palestinian Territory, 05/07/2010. By Abed Rahim Khatib
As Israel started easing its blockade in the Hamas-controlled Palestinian territory, a truck arrives loaded with fuel through the Kerem Shalom crossing. Rafah, Palestinian Territory. 11/07/2010.
The Israeli military carried out air strikes against targets in the Gaza Strip on Saturday, an army spokesman and Palestinian witnesses said. Rafah, Palestinian Territory. 29/05/2010.
A recent easing of the Israeli blockade of the Gaza Strip is welcome but not enough to meet the huge needs of the Palestinian enclave's 1.5 million people, a top UN official said. Rafah, Palestinian Territory. 24/04/2010
The United Nations announced it has no plans to break the Israeli sea blockade of the Gaza Strip but would weigh all legal options to deliver badly needed supplies to the besieged Palestinian population. Rafah,Palestinian Territory. 05/05/2010.
Local newspapers have reported that Saudi King Abdullah has facilitated the transfer of the twins from the Gaza Strip to a Riyadh hospital, where surgeons will attempt to separate them. Rafah, Palestinian Territory.04/06/2010.
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