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An Israeli soldier scuffles with a Palestinian farmer as villagers are prevented from working on their lands in the West Bank village of Tuqua, east of Bethlehem, near the Jewish settlement of Tekoa on May 30, 2012. Palestinians need permission from Israeli authorities in order to be able to access their own lands located near Jewish settlements.

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A dove lands near Israeli soldiers as the temporary lifting of the curfew comes to an end in the West Bank town of Ramallah. April 8, 2002.

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A man herds sheep next to the separation wall between Israel and Palestine in Bethlehem, Palestine on March 19, 2007.

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A view of Gaza City is seen from Fatah’s Al Horya Radio station, Jan. 29, 2007, where journalists work under the protection of Fatah’s security forces. While Hamas and Fatah are engaged in a deadly power struggle, the radio stations funded by each party are taking an active role in provoking outrage and inspiring hatred of the opposition.

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Sheep walk along a road next to the separation wall between Israel and Palestine in Bethlehem, Palestine on March 19, 2007.

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A Palestinian woman stands in front of a destroyed house by Gaza’s border with Egypt in Rafah, Feb. 13, 2007. Under this house, a dozen Palestinians work at night, clandestinely digging an 800-meter-long tunnel to smuggle weapons from Egypt into Gaza.

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A woman clears debris from her home in Beit Hanoun, Gaza Strip, Nov. 14, 2006, after a weeklong military operation by Israeli forces, dubbed Autumn Clouds, damaged much of the town and left 65 people dead.

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Palestinians queue to store drinking water in anticipation of an Israeli raid in Khan Younis in the Gaza strip, June 30, 2006.

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Palestinian women and child walk past a star of David star graffiti in Jenin, April 18, 2002.

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Palestinian women weep in the Jenin refugee camp following the invasion by the Israeli Army. April 15, 2002. Israel launched controversial, large-scale military operations across the Palestinian territories, killing militants and civilians, following a spate of deadly Palestinian suicide bombings in Israel.

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Palestinians bound for Jerusalem cross an Israeli Defense Forces checkpoint, known as Kalandia, at Ramallah in the West Bank, April 20, 2006. Kalandia is a Palestinian village and adjacent refugee camp located about halfway along the road from Jerusalem to Ramallah.

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Demonstrators attack African migrants in south Tel Aviv protest

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Activist prevents Israeli officer from arresting Palestinian child

During Sunday’s Jerusalem Day events, a Palestinian boy, perhaps 10 years old, was chased down an East Jerusalem street by a very angry officer of the Border Police. The boy tripped and fell, then picked himself up just as the Border Police officer reached him and tried to grab him. But a 22 year-old female Israeli activist prevented the boy’s arrest by throwing herself between the two, allowing the Palestinian boy to flee.

Jerusalem Day is meant to be a celebration of the city’s ‘reunification’ following Israel’s victory in the 1967 war. In practice, it is a day for Israeli nationalists, draped in flags, dancing in circles, singing and chanting (including the popular Israeli nationalist chant, ‘death to Arabs’) as they march through the streets of East Jerusalem and the Old City. Many of the Jewish demonstrators are bused in from right-wing yeshivas in Israel and the West Bank

This year, an Orthodox Jewish man grabbed the Palestinian flag from the hands of a 10 year-old boy and refused to return it. The boy, enraged, tried to prise it out of the Jewish man’s hands. A Border Police officer, seeing the struggle between a 10 year-old Palestinian boy and a fully grown Jewish man, chased the Palestinian boy rather than ordering the Jewish man to return the flag. Someone made a montage of the incident and posted it on Facebook, with commentary. Note the expression of rage in the Border Police officer’s eyes, as seen in the second photo.

In the end the boy got away, due to the intervention of a 22 year-old Israeli activist from Jerusalem named Sahar Vardi, who threw herself in front of the Border Police officer just as he was about to grab the child. Photojournalist Haim Schwarczenberg caught the incident.

The incident was also filmed and the clip posted on Youtube.

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