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A woman floated in the Dead Sea near the West Bank Jewish settlement of Mitzpe Shalem Wednesday. The Dead Sea, a salt lake below sea level, is one of 28 landmarks vying for the title of one of the new 7 Wonders of Nature.
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A woman floated in the Dead Sea near the West Bank Jewish settlement of Mitzpe Shalem Wednesday. The Dead Sea, a salt lake below sea level, is one of 28 landmarks vying for the title of one of the new 7 Wonders of Nature.
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An Israeli youth, right, played with a Palestinian boy from the West Bank village of Jahalin at the beach in Bat Yam, Israel. A group of Israeli women organise a weekly visit to the Israeli seaside for Palestinian children in the West Bank.
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An Ultra-Orthodox Jewish man climbed a pole during a demonstration in Bnei Brak, Israel, Thursday against a court ruling forcing the integration of a religious girls’ school. Parents of European, or Ashkenazi, descent in the West Bank settlement of Emanuel don’t want their children to study with schoolgirls of Middle Eastern and North African descent, known as Sephardim.
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A Palestinian woman with a Palestinian flag wrapped around her head flashed the victory sign in celebration at the West Bank village of Nabi Saleh.
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World Water Day: Floating on dreams and whispers, girls from a West Bank village cool off in the salt-laden waters of the Dead Sea. With its main tributary, the Jordan, at less than a tenth of its former volume, the inland sea has dropped some 70 feet since 1978.
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Palestinian protesters took cover while throwing stones at Israeli soldiers during a protest over water supplies in the West Bank village of Nabi Salah.
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Young Palestinians and Israeli soldiers clashed again in the West Bank city of Hebron. the latest unrest began earlier this week, after the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, announced plans to include a Hebron shrine and a tomb in another West Bank city on a list of Israeli national heritage sites.
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Palestinian security cadets trained with fake guns during a drill at a training base in the West Bank city of Jericho. Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’s government decided Monday to hold municipal elections in the West Bank in July, the first voting since Mr. Abbas’s Fatah movement was trounced by Hamas in Gaza four years ago.
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An Israeli soldier raised his weapon toward a Palestinian woman during clashes in the West Bank village of Nabi Salih, near Ramallah. The woman ran away unhurt. The clashes erupted during protests over a land dispute with Jewish settlers in the area.
