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Tuesday, May 18, 2010

A Palestinian woman is back dropped by the Dome of the Rock Mosque, in the Al Aqsa Mosque compound, also known to Jews as Temple Mount, in Jerusalem's Old City, Tuesday, May 18, 2010. U.S. Mideast envoy George Mitchell is in the region for meetings with the Palestinians and the Israelis separately as part of the indirect talks. The Palestinians refuse to hold direct talks with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu unless he freezes all Jewish construction in the West Bank and east Jerusalem. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)

Palestinian teenagers form the number 62 in reference to the 62nd anniversary of the "Nakba" during a rally in the West Bank village of Jalameh, near Jenin May 17, 2010. Nakba is a term used by Palestinians to describe the founding of Israel in a 1948 war when some 700,000 Palestinians fled or were expelled from their homes. REUTERS/Abed Omar Qusini (WEST BANK - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST)

Palestinian refugee Ali Basuni, age 72, holds a deed from his grandfather Ahmed Basuni's land which his family fled from during the 'Nakba', which is Arabic for catastrophe, in 1948, inside the Balata refugee camp, in the West Bank city of Nablus, Monday May 17, 2010. Basuni's family had land prior to 1948 in the village of Yagur, north of Tel Aviv, but they fled to Balata during the Nakba, which uprooted hundreds of thousands of Palestinians from their homes during the 1948 Israeli-Arab war. (AP Photo/Nasser Ishtayeh)

The Christian Science Monitor May 2010 Photo of the DAY Inside the Balata refugee camp, in the West Bank city of Nablus, Ali Basuni, a Palestinian refuguee holds a deed from his grandfather's land. His family had to flee from their land in 1948 during the Nakba, Arabic for catastrophe. Nakba uprooted some hundreds of thousands of Palestinians from their homes during the 1948 Israeli-Arab war. Palestinians marked the 62nd anniversary of Nakba with demonstrations calling for their 'right of return' to their former homes and land. Nasser Ishtayeh/AP

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