Collateral damages

Gaza City: A Palestinian girl cleans the face of her brother outside their destroyed house after an Israeli missile targeted a nearby Hamas site. Photo: Mohammed Salem/Reuters.

Flowers on The Wall

“The Flower Thrower”, possibly the most iconic of all Banksy graffiti, is on a wall on the side of a garage on the main road to Beit Sahour, Bethlehem, Palestine. Photo: davehoggan.com.

Ulysses and the Sirens

Gaza City: A boy leaps into the sea at sunset
Photo: Mohammed Abed/AFP/Getty Images

Out of the Blue

Gaza City, Gaza: A Palestinian worker at a beachside coffee house decorates its terrace with colourful umbrellas as part of decorations for Ramadan. Photo: Mohammed Abed/AFP/Getty Images.

On the Road

Gaza City: Baker Magadma, a member of the Palestinian sports group Bar Palestine, works out on a street. Photo: Mohammed Abed/AFP/Getty Images.

The Last Apple on the Tree

Jabalia, Gaza Strip: Children play on a tree in the Jabalia refugee camp. Photo: Mohammed Abed/AFP/Getty Images.

The girl who tried to save time

West Bank, State of Palestine: A child from the Arab Jahalin Bedouin community carries a clock as she walks past the debris of homes in the Bedouin camp of Khan al-Ahmar after Israeli authorities demolished four houses they said were built without permission. Photo: Abbas Momani/AFP/Getty Images.

Wisdom in the Waiting

你可以耽搁,但时间不会延迟。
Nǐ kěyǐ dāngē, dàn shíjiān bù huì yánchí.
You may delay, but time will not.

Gaza play time
Photo: AFP/Mohammed Abed

West Bank

West Bank, State of Palestine: A Bedouin girl sits on a television after an Israeli bulldozer demolished her home. Photo: Atef Safadi/EPA.

Ground colouring

Suca, Gaza City: Palestinian children plant flowers among the debris of buildings demolished by the Israeli army in 2014. Photo: Anadolu Agency/Getty Images.

Moonwalk

Alexīs Tsipras (@tsipras_eu)

Greece and the Palestinian Authority are to form a joint ministerial committee aimed at strengthening their relationship, it was announced Thursday. The head of the Palestinian Authority, Mahmūd Abbās, revealed the initiative after talks with Prime Minister Alexīs Tsipras in Ramallah. It was also announced that Abbās will visit Athens on December 21 and 22. [Read more].

• Abbās due to visit Athens next month, ekathimerini.com, November 26, 2015

Ολοκαύτωμα (The Holocaust)

Greek Prime Minister Alexīs Tsipras is visiting Jerusalem and Ramallah as tensions flare after the Turkish downing of a Russian fighter jet over its border with Syria, and both Israel and Greece have troublesome grievances with the EU, of which Greece is a member state. [Read more].

• Noga Tarnopolsky, Greek Prime Minister Visits Jerusalem and Ramallah while Regional Tensions Flare, The Media Line, November 25, 2015

Alexīs Tsipras remembering the victims of the Holocaust at Yad Vashem, Jerusalem, Israel. Photo: Alexīs Tsipras (@tsipras_eu).

To be continued...

A Palestinian schoolgirl takes part in a protest after clashes between Israeli security forces and Palestinians in Rafah, Gaza Strip. Photo: Ibrahim Khatib/Demotix/Corbis.

Foulard

Cairo, Egypt: A Palestinian girl wears Palestine’s national flag as a headscarf at a protest outside the Arab League headquarters. Photo: Cui Xinyu/新华社 (Xīnhuá News Agency)/Corbis.

I’m Only Sleeping

As a sandstorm hits Gaza, a Palestinian boy sleeps inside the remains of his family’s house. Witnesses said it was destroyed by Israeli shelling during the 50-day war in 2014. A new United Nations report says Gaza could become uninhabitable in less than five years if current economic and population trends continue. Photo: Suhaib Salem/Reuters.

Beyond the Clouds

Palestinian girls take part in a ballet class at the Qattan Foundation in Gaza City. Photo: Majdi Fathi/NurPhoto/Corbis.