Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas will formally submit the application for Palestinian statehood to the 66th United Nations General Assembly in New York on September 20th.
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A Palestinian woman in traditional dress walks past large black and white photographs taken by French street artist JR of Palestinians, on September 6, 2011, in the West Bank city of Ramallah. JR's project entails having Palestinian and Israeli portraits taken which are then printed and pasted onto walls In Israel and the West Bank.
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A Palestinian carpenter holds the seat of a hand-made olive-wood chair, fashioned to look like the blue seats at the United Nations, at a workshop in the West Bank city of Jenin on August 28, 2011.
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Palestinian girls walk down the stairs in front of the Dome of Rock inside the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound, Islam's third holiest site, during the morning Eid al-Fitr prayer in Jerusalem's Old City on August 30, 2011.
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Palestinian soldiers stand behind the tomb of late leader Yasser Arafat and a symbolic Palestinian UN chair on September 5, 2011 in the West Bank city of Ramallah.
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Palestinian fireman extinguish the fire from the damage to a car after an Israeli attack in Deir al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip on September 7, 2011.
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Palestinians hold their national flag as they rally outside the United Nations building in the West Bank city of Ramallah on September 8, 2011 as they kick off a campaign of support for their bid to become the 194th state to join the United Nations.
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Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas will formally submit the application for Palestinian statehood to the 66th United Nations General Assembly in New York on September 20th.
- [Christopher Furlong/AFP/Getty Images]

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas will formally submit the application for Palestinian statehood to the 66th United Nations General Assembly in New York on September 20th.
- [Christopher Furlong/AFP/Getty Images]

Palestinians looks at the damage inside a mosque which was set ablaze in Qusra, some 15 kilometres (12 miles) southeast of Nablus, in an apparent retaliatory attack after police dismantled three homes in a Jewish settlement
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A Palestinian youth leads a camel past Bedouin shacks and tents near the West Bank city of Jericho on September 8, 2010.
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A Palestinian man sells toys in Jerusalem's Old City on August 30, 2011, as Muslims celebrate the first day of Eid al-Fitr which marks the end of the holy fasting month of Ramadan.
- [Ahmad Gharabli/AFP/Getty Images]