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A handout picture released by the official Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA) on February 1, 2014 shows residents of Syria’s besieged Yarmuk Palestinian refugee camp, south of Damascus, receiving food parcels from the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA). (AFP Photo/HO/SANA)
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Palestinian youths walk past Israel’s controversial separation barrier at the Qalandia checkpoint between Ramallah and Jerusalem, in the occupied West Bank, where thousands of Muslim worshippers queued to cross into Jerusalem on August 4, 2013 on their way to attend the Lailat al-Qadr night prayers at the Al-Aqsa mosque compound on the last week of the holy month of Ramadan. (AFP PHOTO/ABBAS MOMANI.)
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Opinion: The Secret Life of Palestine
Happy Eid? I have to admit that I have borrowed the word “pessoptimism” from the title of the tragicomic novel The Secret Life of Saeed: The Pessoptimist (1974) by the late Palestinian novelist Emile Habibi. Were the author alive, he would immediately ask me to be...Caption:
Palestinian women, who had been living at Yarmouk Palestinian refugee camp in Syria, wait outside the Lebanese immigration authority to have their papers stamped at the Lebanese-Syrian border, in al-Masnaa December 18, 2012. (Reuters/Jamal Saidi)
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