THE BLOODY CONFLICT OF THE MIDDLE/NEAR EAST

Photos from L to R: #1.A Palestinian man places the body of 9-year-old Mubarak al-Hashash into a grave at the Rafah cemetery, in the southern Gaza Strip, May 20, 2004. The boy was killed by Israeli troops during a tank attack on Wednesday. Israeli troops and tanks pushed further into the besieged Rafah refugee camp on Thursday despite international outrage at the killing of 38 Palestinians, in the bloodiest Gaza raid in years. REUTERS/Suhaib Salem . #2. Two Armed Palestinians hold their guns during anti Israeli demonstration to protest against Israeli forces at the Ein el-Hilweh Refugee camp near the southern Lebanese city of Sidon, Thursday May 20, 2004. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari) . #3. A Palestinian carries a dead boy after an Israeli attack on a crowd at the Rafah refugee camp in the southern Gaza Strip,  May 19, 2004. Israeli forces opened fire on a protest march in the besieged camp on Wednesday, killing eight Palestinians and raising the death toll in Israel's heaviest raid in the Gaza Strip in years to 31. Some witnesses reported seeing helicopter gunships launching missiles while others said tanks fired shells into a peaceful crowd of thousands, sending people fleeing in panic, some dragging bloodied comrades with them. (Mohammed Salem/Reuters)

Photos from L to R: #1. Palestinian youths carry a mock missile during a Hamas rally in Gaza City, demonstrating against the ongoing Israeli army operations in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip , late Wednesday May 19, 2004. Earlier today Israeli forces fired a missile and four tank shells to hold back a large crowd of Palestinians demonstrating in Rafah against the Israeli invasion of the neighboring refugee camp. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis).. #2.  Israeli left-wing protestors hold up placards during a demonstration in front of the Defense Ministry in Tel Aviv. The UN Security Council adopted a resolution criticising Israel's killings and house demolitions in Gaza, passed 14-0-1 after the United States abstained instead of vetoing the measure.(AFP/Tal Cohen). #3. Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon lays a memorial wreath at a Jerusalem Day ceremony at Ammunition Hill in Jerusalem Wednesday May 19, 2004, commemorating those who fell during battle. Israelis on Wednesday celebrated the 37th anniversary of Jerusalem Day, which marks the day of the capture of Jerusalem's disputed eastern sector and Old City in the 1967 Mideast war. (AP Photo/David Blumenfeld, Pool) .

Photos from L to R: #1. Activists of the Jewish extremist right wing Temple Mount Faithful carry a mock coffin symbolising a Palestinian state, during a demonstration in Jerusalem's Old City Wednesday May 19, 2004. Israelis on Wednesday marched through Jerusalem to celebrate the anniversary of the capture of its disputed eastern sector and Old City in the 1967 Mideast War, when Israel captured east Jerusalem, including sites holy to Christians, Jews and Muslims, from Jordan and later annexed it. Sign in Hebrew reads 'Palestinian State, Never!'. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit) . #2. Young Israelis dance in celebration of Jerusalem Day, in Jerusalem Wednesday May 19, 2004. Israelis on Wednesday celebrated the 37th anniversary of Jerusalem Day, which marks the day of the capture of East Jerusalem in the 1967 War. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit) . #4. The bodies of four Palestinian youths killed in an Israeli missile strike, are seen amongst other bodies at a makeshift morgue in the Rafah refugee camp, southern Gaza Strip , Wednesday, May 19, 2004. At least ten people were killed, most of them children and teens and dozens wounded in the attack. (AP Photo/Hatem Moussa).