Pictures of Palestinians including activists defending olive growers from settlers

Palestinians have requested International Peacekeeping forces on their land as a buffer between them and Israel -- this was rejected by Israel.


An Israeli soldier checks the ID of a Palestinian child at a road block outside the West Bank town of Qalqiliya. (photo: AFP)


A Palestinian boy watches an Israeli soldier making an obscene gesture near a concrete wall at the Kupsa checkpoint at the outskirts of east Jerusalem December 7, 2002. The wall was built by Israelis to form a solid barrier against entry by Palestinians from the West Bank into Arab East Jerusalem.(Reuters / Reinhard Krause)


Palestinian children ride atop a horse-drawn wagon, during a youth festival in a park to celebrate the three-day Eid el-Fitr holiday, marking the end of the Islamic holy month of Ramadan, near the Old City in east Jerusalem, Friday Dec. 6, 2002.


A Palestinian refugee boy stands next to his family's blown up house destroyed by Israeli troops at Bureij refugee camp in central Gaza Strip, early Friday morning on December 6, 2002, the second day of the Islamic holiday of Eid Al-Fitr.


Palestinian children walk barefoot in downtown Gaza city on the last day of the holy month of Ramadan, Wednesday, December 4, 2002.


An Israeli soldier takes pictures next to graffiti that reads 'Arabs out,' left by extremist Jewish settlers in an area where Palestinian houses are "scheduled for demolition" in the Palestinian town of Hebron Tuesday, Dec. 3, 2002. The Israeli army has issued warrants to confiscate 15 Palestinian homes in the area as part of a plan to demolish them and widen a road connecting a holy site to a nearby Jewish settlement.


Refugees To Be ! Palestinian children look out of their family home at Israeli soldiers distributing orders to leave the houses because they will be demolished soon in the old Palestinian city of Hebron December 3, 2002. The Israeli army has issued warrants to seize 15 Palestinian homes in the area as part of a plan to demolish them and widen a road connecting a holy site to a nearby Jewish settlement.


Palestinian children look from their family home at Israeli soldiers distributing orders to leave the houses because they will be demolished soon in the old Palestinian city of Hebron December 3, 2002. The Israeli army has issued warrants to seize 15 Palestinian homes in the area as part of a plan to demolish them and widen a road connecting a holy site to a nearby Jewish settlement. The Hebrew slogan at the door, written by the extremist Jewish settlers, reads 'Arabs out. Death to the Arabs.'


Palestinian Jamal al Dura, right, gives one-day-old baby Mohammed to his wife Amal, at their home in the Bureij refugee camp, in southern Gaza Strip, Sunday Dec. 1, 2002. Dura, the stepmother of 12-year-old Mohammed al Dura, the Palestinian boy that was killed on the second day of the Palestinian uprising, when he was shot by Israeli soldiers as he cowered with his father behind a barrel, gave birth to another son, whom his father has named Mohammed in memory of the boy who died in his lap two years ago.


An injured Palestinian boy stands in front of his family's destroyed house in the Khan Younis refugee camp in the southern part of the Gaza Strip on November 22, 2002. The Israeli army destroyed two houses in Khan Younis refugee camp on Thursday night.


Unidentified relatives of 11-year-old Palestinian boy Mohammed Bilalo stand next to his bed in a hospital in the West Bank town of Jenin Friday Nov. 22, 2002. Blalo was shot in the eye during clashes between Palestinians and Israeli occupation forces in Jenin.


Palestinians evacuate a child from a destroyed house after the Israeli army demolished it in the old city of Nablus, August 19, 2002.


Two Palestinian children sit in the window of their home by a wall covered with pro-Palestinian graffiti in the Rafah refugee camp, southern Gaza Strip, Thursday, Oct. 3, 2002.


Two Palestinian children walk past the Israeli Kalandia checkpoint towards Ramallah on the outskirts of the West Bank town Friday, Aug. 2, 2002.


Young Palestinians throw rocks at Israeli tanks in Balata refugee camp near Nablus Thursday, Aug. 1, 2002. Clashes between the youths and Israeli forces are almost a daily occurrence.


Palestinian child Nancy Aish, right, is comforted by an unidentified girl during the funeral procession of her brother Mohammad in the Palestinian West Bank Balata refugee camp, Saturday, June 29, 2002. Aish was killed early Thursday after an Israeli tank opened fire near the camp.


GOOD FRIDAY IN BETHLEHEM! A Palestinian Christian family watch Israeli soldiers from the window of their home during a curfew in Bethlehem on Good Friday, May 3, 2002.


Two Palestinian girls peer out of a window as Israeli tanks and troops patrol a street in the West Bank city of Hebron, April 29, 2002.


VIGIL FOR... EASTER Young Christian girls take part in a candlelight vigil in show of solidarity with Palestinians under occupation in Amman April 28, 2002. The Eastern Easter celebrations were cancelled in respect for the Palestinian victims of Israel's latest military offensive.


A Palestinian Christian boy dressed as a priest waves a Palestinian flag during an Orthodox Palm Sunday procession in a church in the West Bank town of Beit Sahour, adjacent to Bethlehem Sunday April 28, 2002. Negotiations to end the 27-day standoff at Bethlehem's Church of the Nativity, where hundreds of Palestinians are surrounded by Israeli forces, deadlocked.


A Palestinian Greek Orthodox child stand on tip-toes to lit a candle during Palm Sunday celebrations, April 28, 2002 at the church of Virgin Mary in Beit Jalah, near Bethlehem, where Israeli troops and tanks are surrounding the Church of the Nativity.


A Catholic nun cries during a prayer held for peace in Palestine during a religious service at St. Anne's church in Jerusalem's Old City, Friday, April 26, 2002.


PILGRIM AT THE GATE U.S. Christian pilgrim Keith Wheller, from Tulsa, Oklahoma carries a cross and stops in front of a barricade erected by Israeli troops in Bethlehem to block access to Manger Square, in front of the Church of Nativity, April 26, 2002.


PRIEST AND TANK A priest holds up his hand towards the barrel of a tank after exiting through the door of the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem to help lead out nine Palestinian youths, Thursday April 25, 2002. (AP Photo/David Guttenfelder)


A Palestinian boy sits in the ruins of his house in the destroyed Jenin refugee camp April 25, 2002. (Reuters/Reinhard Krause)


An Israeli soldier aims his sniper rifle at the Church of Nativity in front of a group of Palestinian women and children during a temporary lifting of a curfew in Bethlehem, April 22, 2002. (Reuters/Magnus Johansson)


An elderly Palestinian man sits amongst debris under the rain as a storm cloud hovers over the destroyed area of the refugee camp of Jenin, Saturday, April 20, 2002.


Five year-old Nabil Abad, right, and his six year-old sister Fairoz sit in the rubble of their family's home in Nablus, Friday April 19, 2002. The house was destroyed in a helicopter attack during the Israeli incursion into the town. (AP Photo/Greg Baker)


SOCCER IN THE CAMP Two Palestinian boys play soccer in front of a wall, covered with graffiti, celebrating local shahids (martyrs) in Deheisheh refugee camp near Bethlehem, April 19, 2002. (Reuters/Magnus Johansson)


Mourners look into a mass grave for 12 Palestinians killed during the Israeli invasion of the northern West Bank town of Nablus, Thursday, April 18, 2002. Thirty-five bodies were buried in Nablus when Israel lifted a curfew for three hours. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)


Hospital workers prepare the bodies of dead Palestinians outside a makeshift morgue in the West Bank town of Nablus, Thursday, April 18, 2002. Hospital officials said the bodies were to be buried because there was no space left in refrigerated trucks which had been storing them.


A Palestinian boy wanders through the rubble of his demolished house in the Jenin refugee camp in the West Bank, April 15, 2002.




























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Several members of the International Solidarity Movement (ISM) confronted armed Jewish settlers who attempted to attack Palestinian olive harvesters in the village of Tequa, south of Bethlehem.

Many Palestinian farmers were denied access to their farms in the Occupied Territories this year by Israeli forces and armed Jewish settlers.

Two human right activists were hurt on that day in Tequa after being attacked by settlers. Mary Hughes-Thompson was beaten, as well as a 74 year old-volunteer who had to be hospitalized with a collapsed lung.