KIBBUTZ MEFALSIM, GAZA STRIP - OCTOBER 3: (ISRAEL OUT) An Israeli soldier is pictured as he prepares at the border between Kibbutz Mefalsim and the Gaza Strip October 3, 2004 in Gaza Strip. Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon vowed to press ahead with a massive military incursion in the Gaza Strip that has killed almost 60 people in five days. Israel launched the incursion, one of the deadliest since the start of the Palestinian uprising four years ago, in a bid to prevent rocket attacks by Palestinian militants.(Photo by Uriel Sinai/Getty Images)
KIBBUTZ MEFALSIM, GAZA STRIP - OCTOBER 5: (ISRAEL OUT) Israeli soldiers celebrate on their Armored Personnel Carriers (APCs) following their return to Kibbutz Mefalsim after a night of fighting at the Jabalia refugee camp in the northern Gaza strip on October 5, 2004 in Kibbutz Mefalsim, Gaza Strip. Israeli troops are pressing ahead with a major offensive in Gaza for the seventh straight day, as the UN Security Council is set to vote on a draft resolution calling for Israel to pull its forces out after a huge onslaught that has left almost 80 Palestinians dead in less than a week. (Photo by Uriel Sinai/Getty Images)
RAFAH, GAZA STRIP - MAY 19: Israeli soldiers help a blindfolded Palestinian detainee climb out of an Israeli army armored personnel carrier after he was arrested during the ongoing operation May 19, 2004 in the Palestinian town of Rafah. Israel's massive operation entered its second day with Palestinians reporting more than 20 dead, most of them armed militants. (Photo by David Silverman/Getty Images)
RAFAH, GAZA STRIP - MAY 21: Palestinians inspect the remains of their homes destroyed by Israeli tanks following two days of operations and curfew by Israeli forces, on May 21, 2004 in Rafah refugee camp, Gaza Strip. Israeli troops and tanks partially pulled out of the Rafah refugee camp at daybreak May 21, after a three-day house-to-house search for militants and weapons smuggling tunnels that left 39 Palestinians dead. It was not immediately clear if the operation was over and Israeli forces continue to hold positions inside and on the outskirts of the camp. (Photo by Ahmad Khateib/Getty Images)
RAFAH REFUGEE CAMP, GAZA STRIP - MAY 24: the damaged windscreen of a Palestinian car and a building damaged by Israeli fire is seen after Israeli troops pulled out of Tell al-Sultan neighbourhood on May 24, 2004 in the Rafah refugee camp southern Gaza Strip. Israeli troops pulled out of a key neighbourhood of Gaza's Rafah refugee camp, May 24, after killing 42 Palestinians in a six-day siege that was roundly condemned by the international community. (Photo by Ahmad Khateib/Getty Images)
MORAG, GAZA STRIP - JANUARY 12: An Israeli troop talks on the phone near the site of an attack that killed an Israeli civilian and wounded four soldiers January 12, 2005 in the Morag settlement in the southern Gaza Strip. Two Palestinian militants from the Islamic Jihad group who reportedly carried out the attack were killed by IDF gunfire in the aftermath of the attack. (Photo by Christopher Furlong/Getty Images)
RAFAH REFUGEE CAMP, GAZA STRIP - MARCH 06: Palestinians men sit outside a building March 06, 2005 in the Rafah Refugee Camp in the Gaza Strip near the Egyptian border. Palestinians who had fled the area during the recent intifada are starting to return to the area. (Photo Abid Katib/Getty Images)
SHIRAT HAYAM, GAZA - MAY 1: An Israeli settler looks at a abandoned house which is waiting to be renovated for Jewish family on May 1, 2005 in Shirat Hayam, Gaza Strip. Israel plans to withdraw all soldiers and the 8,000 Jewish settlers living in the Gaza Strip by August 2005, accompanied by the dismantling of four isolated settlements in the northern West Bank. (Photo by Shaul Schwarz/Getty Images)
Settlers Hold A Mass Prayer Against Disengagement
GAZA CITY, GAZA STRIP - AUGUST 16: A young member of the militant wing of Fatah participates in a rally August 16, 2005 in Gaza City, Gaza Strip. Israel closed off all entry into the settlements August 15, beginning its withdrawal from settlements in Gaza and the West Bank. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)
RAFAH REFUGEE CAMP, GAZA STRIP - MAY 26: A homeless Palestinian woman carries a child as she walks on the rubble of her damaged home which was destroyed by the Israeli Army in a recent raid May 26, 2004 in the Gaza Strip. The Israeli Army destroyed 45 Palestinian buildings, leaving 575 people homeless, during the six-day offensive according to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA). Israel faces continuing international criticism over the offensive. (Photo by Ahmad Khateib/Getty Images)
RAFAH REFUGEE CAMP, GAZA STRIP -DECEMBER 14: Palestinian supporters of the Islamic Hamas movement burn a Star of David and a coffin symbolizing the so-called Geneva Initiative peace plan during a demonstration in the southern Gaza Strip refugee camp of Rafah December 14, 2003 to mark the 16th anniversary of the creation of their group. Hamas emerged at the start of the first Palestinian uprising against Israeli occupation, or intifada, in 1987. (Photo by Abid Katib/Getty Images)
The Daily Life of Palestinians
NUSSEIRAT REFUGEE CAMP, GAZA STRIP - MARCH 24: Masked Palestinian gunmen from the Fatah movement hold their weapons in front of the palestinian flag during a march in support for Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat on April 24,2004 in the Nussirat refugee camp, Gaza strip. Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat showed his defiance of Israeli threats with a public appearance telling several thousand supporters that Israel can never get rid of him. Arafat spoke after Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon said he was no longer bound by an earlier promise to Washington not to harm the Palestinian leader. (Photo by Abid Katib/Getty Images)
Palestinian Child Salutes As She And Islamic Jihad Masked Activists Rally April 23 200
AL-BUREIJ REFUGEE CAMP, GAZA STRIP - MARCH 5: A masked Palestinian boy demonstrates martial arts maneuvers with a plastic gun March 5, 2004 in the Al-Bureij refugee camp in the Gaza Strip. The Islamic resistance movement, Hamas, held a rally to mark the second anniversary of the death of its military leader Ibrahim al-Maqadmeh. (Photo by Abid Katib/Getty Images)
RAFAH REFUGEE CAMP, GAZA STRIP - MAY 26: Homeless Palestinian children walk on a damaged road which was destroyed by the Israeli Army in a recent raid May 26, 2004 in the Gaza Strip. The Israeli Army destroyed 45 Palestinian buildings, leaving 575 people homeless, during the six-day offensive according to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA). Israel faces continuing international criticism over the offensive. (Photo by Ahmad Khateib/Getty Images)
RAFAH REFUGEE CAMP, GAZA STRIP - AUGUST 15: A young Palestinian supporter of The Islamic Resistance Movement (HAMAS) holds a fake machinegun while attending a rally to demand the release of Palestinian prisoners from Israeli jails August 15, 2003 in the Rafah refugee camp, in southern Gaza Strip. Five thousand peaple attended the rally. (Photo by Abid Katib /Getty Images)
RAFAH, GAZA STRIP - NOVEMBER 18: An Israeli soldier takes aim at Palestinian militants during an early morning army operation to discover a Palestinian smuggling tunnel under a destroyed home November 18, 2003 in Rafah refugee camp in the Gaza Strip. The Palestinian tunnels run run under the border between Gaza and Egypt and are primarily used for smuggling weapons and ammunition to the Gaza Strip. (Photo by David Silverman/Getty Images)
BOREJI REFUGEE CAMP, GAZA - AUGUST 29: A masked Palestinian militant burns an Israeli flag during a rally at Boreji refugee camp on August 29, 2003 in Gaza Strip, Gaza City. The Palestinian militant group Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades claimed responsibility for the shooting which left Shalom Hamelech, 25, dead and his seven-month pregnant wife seriously injured. (Photo Paula Bronstein/Getty Images)
GAZA CITY, GAZA STRIP - AUGUST 4: Palestinians carry bags of provisions after unloading them from a truck at an UNRWA (United Nations Relief and Works Agency) distribution centre on August 4, 2004, in the Shati refugee camp, in Gaza City, Gaza Strip. Of the over 900,000 Palestinian refugees registered with the United Nations in the Gaza Strip, many of them require aid on a monthly basis. (Photo by Ahmad Khateib/Getty Images)
GAZA CITY,GAZA STRIP - NOVEMBER 18: Palestinian children hold hands at the Gaza city beach strewn with garbage on November 18, 2004 in Gaza City, in the Gaza Strip. The economic situation in the Gaza Strip continues to deteriorate as the new leadership works out its plans for elections in the aftermath of the death of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat. (Photo by Paula Bronstein/Getty Images)
JABALYA REFUGEE CAMP, GAZA STRIP - JUNE 30: A Masked militant takes part in a march during an anti-Israel rally June 30, 2005 at the Jabalya refugee camp in the northern Gaza Strip. Palestinian security forces were searching for Israelis in the West Bank city of Nablus after a Palestinian militant faction first said it had killed two soldiers then said they were being held captive. (Photo by Abid Katib/Getty Images)
GUSH KATIF, GAZA STRIP - MAY 24: Israeli soldiers conduct ambush training on May 24, 2005 in Gush Katif, Gaza Strip. Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon is on a three-day visit to the United States to rally support from Jewish American leaders for his Gaza pullout plan. (Photo by Shaul Schwarz/Getty Images)
BEIT LAHYEA REFUGEE CAMP, GAZA STRIP - APRIL 20: Palestinians throw rocks towards an army bulldozer during clashes with Israeli soldiers April 20, 2004 near the Beit Lahyea Refugee Camp, in the Gaza Strip. In continuing clashes three Palestinians were killed and 30 wounded when Israeli tanks and a bulldozer entered inside the border of the refugee camp. Palestinians have reportedly fired a barrage of homemade rockets and mortar shells at Gaza Strip settlements. (Photo by Abid Katib/Getty Images)
Palestinian Man at Gaza Border
KHAN YOUNIS, GAZA STRIP - SEPTEMBER 21: Palestinian soldiers shout anti-Israeli slogans during a rally in support of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat September 21, 2003 in Khan Younis, Gaza Strip. Arafat hailed a UN vote calling for Israel to retract their threats to remove the Palestinian leader earlier in the week. Israel has dismissed the UN resolution. (Photo by Abid Katib/Getty Images)
RAFAH, GAZA STRIP - JANUARY 30: Palestinian children play in front of a building whose walls were marred by Israeli heavy machine gun bullets recently in clashes January 30, 2003 in the town of Rafah located in the Gaza Strip. Palestinian witnesses stated that Israeli army bulldozers demolished three homes in Rafah today, including two wells that provide water for thousands of local area residents. According to the Israeli army, the buildings were abandoned. (Photo by Abid Katib/Getty Images)
