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LIVE FROM PALESTINE: The month in Pictures - March 2015

Saturday, 04 April 2015 11:14

Palestinian women protest against the occupation at Qalandiya checkpoint near the West Bank city of Ramallah on 7 March, a day before International Women’s Day.

 

Posters of Palestinians killed by Israeli forces cover a door of a mini-market in Jenin refugee camp, northern West Bank, on 8 March.

 

A Palestinian man sits near the rubble of his home that was demolished by the Israeli army in the Tulkarem-area village of Jarushiyya on 9 March.

 

Israeli Border Police detain a demonstrator during a protest near the Ramallah-area Ofer military prison calling for the release of Palestinian students held in Israeli jails, 10 March.

 

A Palestinian rides his horse in the north of the West Bank’s Jordan valley on 13 March. The vast majority of the Jordan Valley is under full Israeli military control, preventing Palestinian development.

 

Tamer Nafar, of the hip-hop group DAM, performs during an event calling for the recognition of Dahamash village on 14 March. Dahamash, an unrecognized village in central present-day Israel, has resisted house demolitions in its long battle for state recognition.

 

Four-year-old Meena Ahmed al-Nashash stands in front of a poster commemorating those killed in her Rafah neighborhood during the last Israeli offensive, 18 March. The girl’s family were fleeing attacks on 27 July 2014 when they were targeted by an Israeli missile approximately 100 meters from their home. Seven members of the family were killed.

 

A Palestinian protester looks towards Israeli settlements during a demonstration marking Palestinian Land Day in the West Bank village of Nabi Saleh, near Ramallah, on 28 March. Land Day commemorates the six Palestinian citizens of Israel killed by police in 1976 while protesting land confliscation.

 

Source: Electronic Intifada