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A Palestinian youth wears a shirt with the numbers '1948' on the back as he waits outside the gates of the Israeli army's Kalandia checkpoint, between the West Bank city of Ramallah and Jerusalem, Thursday, May 15, 2008. Palestinians marked the 60th anniversary of their uprooting with rallies, sirens and black balloons Thursday, an annual ritual that turned even darker this year because of crippling internal divisions, diminishing independence hopes and the stark contrast to Israel's all-out birthday bash.
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A Palestinian child plays amongst black balloons during a rally marking Israel's 60th anniversary, which Palestinians call the 'nakba,' or catastrophe, the word they use to describe Israel's establishment which resulted in the displacement of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians, in the refugee camp of Aida near the West Bank town of Bethlehem, Thursday May 15, 2008.
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Palestinians rally in the West Bank city of Ramallah to mark the 59th anniversary of the Naqba or "catastrophe" in 2007. This year, Palestinians protested across the occupied territories on the 60th anniversary of the "catastrophe" of the birth of Israel as the Jewish state's army went on high alert.