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Photos from the Quarter 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 children hold placards calling for the release of hunger-striking Palestinian prisoner Hussam Khader and other administrative detainees held by Israel in preparation for annual Prisoners Day demonstrations in the northern West Bank village of Araba, 16 April 2012. (Saif Dahlah/AFP/Getty Images) Relatives of Palestinian prisoners held by Israel celebrate after Israeli authori- ties agree to ease prisoner conditions in exchange for an end to their ongoing hunger strike, Gaza City, 14 May 2012. (Mahmud Hams/AFP/Getty Images) Journal of Palestine Studies Vol. XLI, No. 4 (Summer 2012), pp. 106–113, 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.4.106. JPS4104_09_Photos from the Quarter.indd 106 09/08/12 10:51 AM PHOTOS FROM THE QUARTER 107 Hamas-af!liated police in Gaza prevent Palestinian demonstrators from march- ing to the Israeli border fence to commemorate Land Day, which protests Israel’s ongoing con!scation of Palestinian land, Bayt Hanun, 30 March 2012. (Mahmud Hams/AFP/Getty Images) Palestinians gather in central Ramallah to mark Nakba Day commemorating Israel’s expulsion of Palestinians in 1948, 15 May 2012. (Uriel Sinai/Getty Images) JPS4104_09_Photos from the Quarter.indd 107 09/08/12 10:51 AM 108 JOURNAL OF PALESTINE STUDIES Jewish and Palestinian citizens of Israel participate in Nakba commemoration ceremonies in Tel Aviv, 14 May 2012. (Uriel Sinai/Getty Images) Palestinian protestors wave "ags in solidarity with Syrian protestors during a demonstration against Syrian Pres. Bashar al-Asad in Gaza City, 21 February 2012. (Mohammed Abed/AFP/Getty Images) JPS4104_09_Photos from the Quarter.indd 108 09/08/12 10:51 AM PHOTOS FROM THE QUARTER 109 An Israeli soldier dismantles a display of empty tear-gas canisters collected by a Palestinian family outside their home during a weekly demonstration against the Israeli occupation in the West Bank village of Nabi Salih, 24 February 2012. (Abbas Momani/AFP/Getty Images) Palestinians arrested by Israeli soldiers are forced to stand facing a wall fol- lowing clashes in Hebron that erupted between Palestinians and Jewish settlers sparked when settlers severely beat a Palestinian man outside his home, 17 April 2012. (Hazem Bader/AFP/Getty Images) JPS4104_09_Photos from the Quarter.indd 109 09/08/12 10:51 AM 110 JOURNAL OF PALESTINE STUDIES An elderly Palestinian man repairs kerosene stoves in Gaza City during an extended electricity shortage caused by Israeli restrictions on fuel imports to Gaza, 20 March 2012. (Mohammed Abed/AFP/Getty Images) Palestinians wait in line to !ll containers with emergency supplies of fuel pro- vided by the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) at a gas station in Gaza City, 2 April 2012. (Mohammed Abed/AFP/Getty Images) JPS4104_09_Photos from the Quarter.indd 110 09/08/12 10:52 AM PHOTOS FROM THE QUARTER 111 A Palestinian laborer works at a UNRWA-funded construction site to rebuild a residential area of Rafah destroyed by Israel during its 2008–9 Operation Cast Lead assault on Gaza, 21 March 2012. (Said Khatib, AFP/Getty Images) A Palestinian farmer in Rafah feeds his cows wilted carnations that normally would have been sold abroad if it were not for Israeli export restrictions imposed on Gaza, 29 April 2012. (Said Khatib/AFP/Getty Images) JPS4104_09_Photos from the Quarter.indd 111 09/08/12 10:52 AM 112 JOURNAL OF PALESTINE STUDIES An Israeli soldier chases a Palestinian who threw stones during a protest held in al-Khadir village (near Bethlehem) in solidarity with hunger-striking Palestinian prisoners being held in Israeli jails, 10 May 2012. (Musa al-Shaer/ AFP/Getty Images) Palestinian mourners attend the funeral of two Palestinian boys who were killed when they accidentally triggered unexploded Israeli ordinance outside the West Bank city of Wadi al-Rim (near Hebron), 7 March 2012. (Hazem Bader/ AFP/Getty Images) JPS4104_09_Photos from the Quarter.indd 112 09/08/12 10:52 AM PHOTOS FROM THE QUARTER 113 A Palestinian man dresses a snowman in a traditional scarf, or kaf!yeh, after a rare snowfall in the West Bank city of Ramallah, 2 March 2012. (Abbas Momani/ AFP/Getty Image) Palestinian children "y kites bearing Palestinian and Japanese "ags near a Japanese-funded reconstruction project in Khan Yunis in a show of solidarity with the victims of the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami that ravaged Japan, 18 March 2012. (Said Khatib/AFP/Getty Images) JPS4104_09_Photos from the Quarter.indd 113 09/08/12 10:52 AM.
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