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The month in Pictures - May 2015

Thursday, 11 June 2015 14:20

A Palestinian Bedouin girl drinks from a water tank outside her family’s tent near the West Bank town of Tubas in the Jordan Valley on 6 May. Besieged Palestinian communities in the Jordan Valley have called on the international community to immediately intervene to halt Israeli military exercises in the area.

 

Palestinians from the West Bank village of al-Zaim call for the opening of a gate in the wall between Jerusalem and the village on 8 May. The gate had been closed by Israel for more than two weeks, severely restricting travel to and from the village. 

 

Palestinian children take part in a march ahead of commemorations of the 67th anniversary of the Nakba, the ethnic cleansing of Palestine by Zionist forces, in Gaza City on 13 May.

 

Palestinians carry a wounded protester during clashes with Israeli Border Police following a demonstration marking the 67th anniversary of the Nakba outside Ofer military prison near the West Bank city of Ramallah on 15 May.

 

Palestinians march during a protest against Israel’s wall and to mark Nakba Day, the annual commemoration of the 1948 ethnic cleansing, in the West Bank village of Nilin on 15 May.

 

Nidal Eshtayeh, a photojournalist, is seen in his house in the village of Salem after he was wounded by a rubber-coated bullet shot directly towards his face by Israeli soldiers while he was covering a peaceful Nakba Day demonstration at Huwwara military checkpoint near Nablus, 16 May.

 

Palestinians enjoy a day at the beach in Gaza City on 29 May.

 

A Palestinian protester throws stones at Israeli forces during clashes following a demonstration against the expropriation of Palestinian land in the West Bank village of Kufr Qaddum, near Nablus, on 29 May.

 

Israeli forces try to detain a Palestinian protester during a demonstration outside a large church compound near al-Aroub Palestinian refugee camp, just north the West Bank city of Hebron, on 30 May. Palestinians were protesting the sale of the building to Israeli settlers via front groups.

 

Palestinian fruit vendor Abu Haloom from Balata refugee camp balances watermelons on his head to attract customers along a road between Nablus and Ramallah in the West Bank, 30 May.

 

Source: IntifadaElectronic