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PHOTOS FROM THE QUARTER

This small sample of photos, selected from hundreds viewed by JPS, aims to convey a sense of the situation on the ground in the occupied territories during the quarter.

Palestinian students from UN schools in the area create an aerial image of Pablo Picasso’s Peace Dove with the world-renowned aerial artist John Quigley outside Jericho, 25 November 2011. (Ahmad Gharabli/AFP/Getty Images)

Dozens of young hold banners reading “No to negotiations” and “We want a united national strategy” in front of the headquarters of Palestinian President Mahmud Abbas on 14 January 2012. (Abbas Momani/AFP/Getty Images)

Journal of Studies Vol. XLI, No. 3 (Spring 2012), pp. 161–168, ISSN: 0377-919X; electronic ISSN: 1533-8614. © 2012 by the Institute for Palestine Studies. All rights reserved. Please direct all requests for permission to photocopy or reproduce article content through the University of California Press’s Rights and Permissions website, at http://www.ucpressjournals.com/reprintInfo.asp. DOI: jps.2012.XLI.3.161.

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A masked Palestinian protestor climbs ’s separation wall during a weekly demonstration against Israeli occupation in the village of Nilin, 2 December 2011. (Abbas Momani/AFP/Getty Images)

The Shu‘fat refugee camp, surrounded by the Israeli wall in East , 19 January 2012. (Ahmad Gharabli/AFP/Getty Images)

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Israeli soldiers release an attack dog on nonviolent protesters in Kufr Qaddum. The dog bit one of the protesters in the arm, causing a serious wound, and did not release its hold even after its handler ordered it to. (Popular Struggle Coordination Committee)

Supporters of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PLFP) wave the group’s red !ag during a rally for its forty-fourth anniversary in Bayt Lahia, northern , 10 December 2011. (Mahmud Hams/AFP/Getty Images)

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The Palestinian village of Lifta, near Jerusalem, abandoned during the Nakba in 1948, on 10 February 2012. from Lifta recently succeeded in persuading an Israeli court to prevent the destruction of their village for residential and commercial complexes. (Ahmad Gharabli/AFP/Getty Images)

A Palestinian Christian man places the name of the owner of a destroyed house on the rubble of the Palestinian village of Iqrit, near the Lebanon border, during a visit on Christmas 2011. Residents of Iqrit were expelled from their homes by the Israeli army in the 1948 Nakba, and the villagers have fought to return ever since. (Ahmad Gharabli/AFP/Getty Images)

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Palestinian boys walk on a makeshift bridge to cross a !ooded street follow- ing heavy rain in the Shati’ refugee camp in on 1 February 2012. (Mohammed Abed/AFP/Getty Images)

Palestinian rescue teams inspect the scene of a collapsed bridge on a main road near Nussayrat linking Gaza City with the south, 17 November 2011. One Palestinian worker was killed and "ve others were wounded when the bridge collapsed. (Mohammed Abed/AFP/Getty Images)

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A woman chooses !owers from a !orist in Gaza City on Valentine’s Day 2012. (Mohammed Abed/AFP/Getty Images)

Some of the 550 Palestinian prisoners freed in a swap for captured Israeli sol- dier celebrate at the headquarters of President Mahmud Abbas in , 18 December 2011. (Abbas Momani/AFP/Getty Images)

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Palestinian workers drink tea after collecting "rewood to sell to customers near the central Gaza Strip town of Dayr al-Balah on 31 January 2012, as locals struggle against low winter temperatures, daily power cuts, and high fuel prices. (Mohammed Abed/AFP/Getty Images)

A Palestinian worker collects carnations at a !ower farm in in the southern Gaza Strip on 8 February 2012 after Israel granted special approval for exporting limited quantities of !owers from Gaza to Europe. (Said Khatib/AFP/Getty Images)

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Palestinian women hold up a picture of during a protest outside the Red Cross of"ces in the southern West Bank town of , 15 February 2012. Adnan undertook a 66-day hunger strike in protest against his detention by Israel without charge. (Hazem Bader/AFP/Getty Images)

Palestinian men on hunger strike sit in a protest tent in support of Khader Adnan, outside the Red Cross headquarters in Gaza City on 10 February 2012. (Mohamed Abed/AFP/Getty Images)

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