Muhammad Abed, a five-year-old from the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Issawiyeh, recovers at a hospital after surgery on 28 December. The child was shot in the eye with abullet fired by Israeli Border Police after a school bus dropped him off in front of his home on 24 December.

Palestinians climb between houses in the West Bank city of Hebron on 2 December after the military closed a checkpoint that was struck by a molotov cocktail.

A concrete slab is installed along the Israeli-wall in Shuafat refugee camp in occupied Jerusalem on 3 December.

Palestinian youths block the path of an Israeli army jeep during a direct action in the West Bank village of Salem, near Nablus, on 5 December. For the first time in fourteen years, Palestinian farmers managed to sow their lands and till their soil located behind a settler bypass road.

An Israeli soldier kicks an elderly Palestinian man during a protest marking International Human Rights Day in the village of Turmus Aya near the West Bank city of Ramallah on 10 December. Palestinian minister Ziad Abu Ein died during the protest after being beaten by Israeli forces and suffering tear gas inhalation.

The daughter of Ziad Abu Ein sits near the last olive tree sapling that the Palestinian Authority ministerplanted before his death, after it was transferred to the Palestinian Authority headquarters in the West Bank city of Ramallah, 14 December. Abu Ein died during an olive tree planting action near the village of Turmus Aya after he was beaten by Israeli security forces and suffered tear gas inhalation.

A Palestinian man dressed as Santa Claus celebrates in the West Bank city of Nablus on 24 December.

A home in the West Bank city of Nablus after it was raided by the Israeli military on 25 December. Hundreds of soldiers raided the city overnight, targeting homes in the Old City and al-Ain refugee camp, and arresting seven Palestinians. One family reported that soldiers stole nearly $18,000 from a bedroom during the raid.

Palestinian youths play football in front of the rubble of houses destroyed during Israel’s summerin the Shujaiya neighborhood of Gaza City, 31 December.

Source: Electronic Intifada