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THE MIDEAST CONFLICT AND DRAMA PHOTOS

 

Photos from L to R: #1. A Palestinian boy hurls a chunk of rock at an Israeli tank, in Balata refugee camp, in the West Bank town of Nablus, Saturday, May 22, 2004. Troops have held positions in the camp for three days, and perform nightly operations, according to Palestinian residents. (AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed). #2. Wrapped in a white sheet, the body of Rawan Mohammed Abu Zeid, a three-year-old Palestinian girl that was killed according to hospital officials by a gunshot wound to the head is taken from the hospital to be buried in the town of Rafah in the Southern Gaza Strip,  Saturday May 22, 2004. The girl's family said she was hit by Israeli army fire as she walked to a shop near her home in the Brazil neighborhood of the camp. The army said they are not aware of any army fire at the time she was killed. The Israeli army is engaged in a major military offensive, aimed, according to Israel, at uncovering weapons-smuggling tunnels and arresting militants.(AP Phtot/Khalil Hamra)

Photos from L to R: #1. A Palestinian man carries his belongings from his parcially destroyed house painted with graffiti that reads: 'We are Hamas', in the Brazil neigborhood in the southern Gaza Strip, town of Rafah. A Palestinian girl, 3 1/2 years old, was shot dead on day five of the Israeli army's offensive, as angry residents returned to their ruined homes after a partial withdrawal of Israeli troops.(AFP/Mauricio Lima). #2. An unidentified Palestinian boy holds the bodies of several parrots in the Fathei Zoo, in the Rafah refugee camp, in the southern Gaza Strip. Israeli forces may have wound down their offensive in Rafah but residents have been warned about a new deadly danger -- from seven jaguars which escaped after troops razed the Gaza Strip's only zoo.(AFP/Marco Longari)
 

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