A Palestinian woman holds her daughter's hand and ID card backdropped by a part of the separation wall between Israel and Palestine as they wait in line at the Qalandia checkpoint that leads from the West Bank town of Ramallah to Jerusalem on August 5, in order to attend Friday prayers in the holy Muslim month of Ramadan at the Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem. The Israeli army limited the age of Palestinian men who can enter Jerusalem to those over the age of 50.

A Palestinian woman walks past an Israeli border policeman at the Qalandia checkpoint on August 5, the first Friday of the holy month of Ramadan.

A young boy holds on to a relative while waiting in line at the Qalandia checkpoint on August 5.

A Palestinian man hangs decorations for the upcoming holy month of Ramadan outside his home in Jerusalem's Old City July 31. Muslims around the world abstain from eating, drinking and conducting sexual relations from sunrise to sunset during Ramadan, the holiest month in the Islamic calendar.

A protester on the ground argues with Israeli soldiers during a demonstration of Palestinians, foreign protesters and leftwing Israeli peace activists against Israel's controversial separation barrier in the West Bank village of Beit Omar, near Hebron, on July 22. Israel says the barrier is designed to prevent attacks but the Palestinians view it as an 'apartheid wall' that carves off key parts of their promised state.

Jewish worshippers pray outside Joseph's Tomb as hundreds of faithful mark the anniversary of the biblical Joseph's death, on July 4 in the West Bank town of Nablus.

Jewish worshippers pray outside Joseph's Tomb on July 4.

Jewish worshippers pray at Joseph's Tomb on July 4.

A Jewish worshipper prays outside Joseph's Tomb early on July 4.

An injured protester is carried away from the Syrian-Israeli border near the Druze village of Majdal Shams in the Golan Heights, June 5. Israeli troops opened fire on Sunday at Palestinian protesters in Syria who rushed towards a border fence and Syrian state television said four demonstrators were killed. Sunday marked the 44th anniversary of the 1967 Middle East war and Israel had been on high alert for a feared repetition of the storming last month by thousands of Palestinian protesters of Israel's frontiers with Syria and Lebanon. Israel captured the Golan Heights from Syria in the war and annexed the territory in 1981, a move not recognised internationally.

An undercover Israeli policeman dressed as a Palestinian woman opens a car door after detaining a Palestinian protester during clashes in Shuafat refugee camp in east Jerusalem on May 15. Israeli security forces had been on alert for violence on Sunday, the day Palestinians mourn the "Nakba", or catastrophe, of Israel's founding in a 1948 war, when hundreds of thousands of their brethren fled or were forced to leave their homes.

In a separate incident, undercover Israeli police officers detain a Palestinian suspected of throwing stones during clashes in the East Jerusalem neighbourhood of Issawiya on May 15.

Two Palestinian men stand on a road barricade armed with stones as fires burn around them during clashes with the Israeli police May 15, at the Qalandiya checkpoint near Ramallah, West Bank. Today marks the 'Nakba' or 'catastrophe' which befell Palestinians following Israel's establishment in 1948.

Palestinian protesters infiltrate the Israel-Syria border on May 15, near the Druze village of Majdal Shams, Israel. Reportedly at least twelve were killed and several injured when IDF soldiers open fired on protesters attempting to cross the Syria-Israel border adjacent to Majdal Shams in northern Israel. Palestinians today were remonstrating the establishment of Israel in 1948, termed 'Nakba Day.'

A Palestinian protester runs away from tear gas fired by Israeli security forces during clashes at Qalandiya checkpoint, near the West Bank city of Ramallah May 15. Israeli security forces had been on alert for violence on Sunday, the day Palestinians mark the "Nakba", or catastrophe, of Israel's founding in a 1948 war, when hundreds of thousands of their brethren fled or were forced to leave their homes.