1.A child from Aida refugee camp near Bethlehem flies a kite over Israel’s wall in the West Bank during a Nakba commemoration event on 14 May.
2. Members of the Palestinian national security forces carry the bodies of Nadim Siam Nuwara and Muhammad Abu al-Thahir during their funeral procession in the West Bank city of Ramallah, 16 May. The unarmed teens were shot dead by Israeli forces the previous day outside the Ofer military prison following a protest in support of political prisoners and to mark the Nakba or catastrophe of the State of Israel’s creation on ethnically-cleansed Palestine.
3. Children stand under the entrance of a Nakba commemoration event in Maghazi refugee camp, Gaza Strip, 11 May.
4.Palestinian citizens of Israel take part in the annual March of Return to the village of Lubya in the north of present-day Israel, 6 May. Lubya was destroyed during the 1948 ethnic cleansing when more than 500 Palestinian villages were destroyed before and during Israel’s establishment.
5. A Palestinian man signs a banner in solidarity with hunger-striking administrative detainees hung beside a protest tent in the city center of Nablus, occupied West Bank, 2 May. More than a hundred Palestinian administrative prisoners in Israeli prisons launched a mass, open-ended hunger strike on 24 April after Israeli authorities reneged on an agreement made following an earlier mass hunger strike to restrict the use of administrative detention to exceptional cases.
6.“The place we are living is considered a palace,” Teffaha Hasan, a Palestinian refugee from Syria, said on 22 May. Ten members of her immediate and extended family, from Neirab refugee camp, east of the northern Syrian city of Aleppo, now share a single room in the southern Lebanese city of Tyre. But “the most important thing is that we are safe,” she added.
7.A Palestinian Bedouin woman sits with her children next to the rubble of her home after it was demolished by Israeli forces in Um Ajaj village north of the West Bank city of Jericho, 21 May. Palestinian security sources said the Israeli military destroyed more than thirty tents and sheds which the army said were illegally built close to the Jewish settlement of Meswah.
8.A Palestinian woman harvests wheat on a farm near the southern Gaza Strip city of Khan Younis, 3 May. Hundreds of Palestinian workers depend on the wheat harvest as a source of income in the face of rising unemployment as a result of years of siege.
9. A Palestinian jockey poses with her horse at a club in Gaza City, 10 May.
10.A Palestinian girl prays during Friday prayers at the Al-Aqsa mosque compound, Islam’s third holiest site, in the Old City of Jerusalem, 23 May.
Source: The Electronic Intifada