Israeli Arabs wave Palestinian flags during a rally to mark the Nakba (Day of catastrophe), when Palestinians lost their homes and land, in the northern Israeli town of Megiddo, April 24, 2007. Israel celebrates their 59th Independence Day on Tuesday . REUTERS/Ammar Awad (ISRAEL)

Palestinian students stand at Al Amary refuge camp school in silence,
under a poster of two Palestinian kids killed during the uprising, to
mark the first anniversary of the Palestinian uprising against Israeli
occupation (INTIFADA) September 29, 2001. Six Palestinians were killed
and dozens wounded on Friday as protesters took to the streets across
the Middle East to mark the first anniversary of the uprising against
Israeli occupation.REUTERS.Osama Silwadi

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FILE PHOTO 20NOV77 - FOR RELEASE WITH BC-ISRAEL-ANNIVERSARY-CHRONOLOGY - Palestinian school girls returning home from classes pass a line of Arab men being frisked by Israeli soldiers in the Gaza Strip in 1986 after a Jewish man was stabbed and seriously injured. Israel captured the Gaza Strip and the West Bank in the 1967 Six Day War and brought hundreds of thousands of Palestinians under "military occupation" which in 1987 would lead to the mass uprising known as "Intifada".

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Fatah gunmen burn an Israeli flag and fire their weapons into the air as they take part in a Fatah rally January 1, marking the 33rd anniversary of the foundation of Fatah by Palestinian President Yasser Arafat on the 1st of January 1965. Arafat said that he will work in 1998 to protect the Palestinian dream of a Palestinian state with Jerusalem as its capital.

MIDEAST INTIFADA